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GNOME 2.30 Beta released
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| The GNOME release team has announced the
| availability of the first beta for what
| will become version 2.30 of GNOME. The
| 2.29.90 development release of the GNOME
| desktop environment for Linux and Unix
| marks the beginning of the UI freeze and
| includes several bug fixes, changes and
| updates.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GNOME-2-30-Beta-released-927978.html
GNOME Shell Usability Test Plan
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| The first cut of the test plan is on the
| live.gnome.org wiki with those 36
| hypotheses. I would love to hear what you
| think about them and if you have ideas for
| other GNOME Shell design assumptions youâd
| like to see tested. I would also love to
| hear your ideas on how we might devise some
| tests for each hypotheses. Iâve set up a
| page for commentary on the wiki so please
| feel free to add your comments and
| suggestions! (Although of course you can
| feel free to leave your feedback in the
| comments area of this blog post instead.)
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http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/gnome-shell-usability-test-plan/
Recent:
Gnome 3 Usability Hackfest
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| As the GNOME 3.0 approaches, the GNOME
| Community is going to hold a Usability
| Hackfest in London from feb 22-26. Those
| who are not aware about the usability
| project, it aims to make GNOME appearance
| more efficient and pleasant to the users.
| In this hackfest, they are planning to work
| and improve the design and usability of
| some new GNOME 3.0 components.
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http://linuxers.org/article/gnome-3-usability-hackfest
GNOME Revamps and Renews Outreach Program for Women
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| The approach? Think Google Summer of Code --
| complete with internships, mentors, and
| sponsors -- with an emphasis on team
| contributions rather than stand-alone
| projects.
|
| GNOME ran a similar outreach program in
| 2006, and received one hundred applications
| within two weeks. Because funds are (always)
| limited, great projects (and talent) had to
| be turned away -- but Google was so was
| impressed by the proposals, it funded three
| additional projects. The 2006 Women's
| Outreach Program had six participants, but
| organizers are tentatively planning on five
| participants this season.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/gnome-revamps-and-renews-outreach-program-for-women
Should you ask developers for money? And other interesting fundraising dilemnas.
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| What's the single most important thing you
| think free software projects could do to
| improve their fundraising efforts?
| Start reading emails from organizations like
| MoveOn.org and BarackObama.com and start
| emulating them and their tactics. You don't
| have to agree with them politically to see
| how they're doing what they're doing.
|
| A lot of people are going to call me crazy,
| but look: I'd argue that GNOME has as
| much if not more installations than the
| number of people that are subscribed to
| MoveOn.org's email list. And unlike
| MoveOn.org, a lot of these users are
| interacting with your software every day,
| not just when an email pops up in their
| inbox or when something happens in
| Washington.
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http://www.stormyscorner.com/2010/02/what-free-and-open-source-software-projects-can-learn-from-social-networking-and-fundraising.html
Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh
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| Many eons ago, GNOME 1.4 still lived, and it
| was good. It was extremely configurable and
| hackable. You could use either Enlightenment
| or Sawfish as the window manager, and could
| customize it to your heart's content. It was
| even friendly to homegrown GTK+ hacks. And
| then tragedy struck: the GNOME maintainers
| decided that 1.4 needed a ground-up rewrite,
| and thus GNOME 2.0 was born.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6976/1/
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