Tag Archives: GNOME
Finding sources for FLOSS projects: Make it easy!
One of the more difficult things for reporters working in the tech industry, especially those who aren't really familiar with a beat, is finding contacts for free software projects.
Increasingly, projects like GNOME or openSUSE are in mainstream news, but finding someone to "speak for" those projects can be a challenge. This is doubly true when [...]
Posted in Front Page, GNOME, Journalism, Linux.com, PR and marketing, openSUSE Also tagged marketing, openSUSE, pr, press 4 Comments
Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work
Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project [...]
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What's New with Banshee
The Banshee Project released 1.5.3 on January 27th. This release brings a slew of improvements to the already impressive media player that gives iTunes a run for its money, if not hype.
For those not familiar with Banshee, it’s a media player written in C# on the Mono platform, started by Aaron Bockover. Since its debut [...]
Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts
Good news on the accessibility (a11y) front. Mozilla has donated $10,000 to help with GNOME's a11y efforts. This isn't the first time that Mozilla has contributed to GNOME (and hopefully, not the last). The projects have a long history of working together on a11y efforts dating back at least to 2008 when the Mozilla folks [...]
Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?
One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical, structural (hosting, etc.), governance, licensing, and so on. But it would occasionally be a better idea to try to recruit expertise from the outside than to try to re-invent the [...]
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Video editing in Linux: a look at PiTiVi and Kdenlive
Video editing on Linux has long gotten a bad rap. A few years ago, the only real options for video editing were either deeply limited in features and polish, or incredibly complex to set up and use.
While Linux still lacks a direct competitor to tools like Apple's iMovie or Final Cut Pro, the current crop [...]
Posted in Articles, Linux, Open Source, openSUSE Also tagged kde, kdenlive, PiTiVi, video 3 Comments
GNOME Booth at Texas Linux Fest?