Quarterly Report

GNOME Foundation Providing a Free Desktop for the World January, February, March 2010 Hi GNOME Foundation members and fans,

Best wishes and happy hacking! Enjoy your GNOME desktop!

Stormy Peters Executive Director, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Brian Cameron

First of all, the GNOME Foundation GNOME 2.30, the latest stable release Best technical practices for GNOME board of directors would like to of the popular desktop development - a practical half-day express a huge thank you to all the environment and applications suite. development workshop where people volunteers who help to make the The next release will be the highly have an assignment to accomplish; GNOME community possible, and to anticipated GNOME 3 release. The and all those who use the GNOME desktop board is working hard to ensure it will and understand the value of free be a success. Social issues of free software software on the desktop. It is you that development - working with the makes the GNOME community both Much energy in Q1 has been focused upstream community, using rich and rewarding. on planning for the GUADEC 2010 community mailing lists effectively, event which will be held in , evaluating risks associated with In Q1, the GNOME community has from July 26-30. The community governance, etc. gone through some significant GUADEC 2010 website is looking organizational changes. Lucas Rocha handsome and is now live at This will be a joint-venture, where the stepped down from the board to spend http://www.guadec.org/. Planning is GNOME Foundation will earn 40% and more time with his family and new going smoothly and the talk schedule Neary Consulting will earn 60% of the baby and Behdad Esfahbod stepped will soon be made public. GUADEC revenues. Neary Consulting will be in down because other interests were organizers have made a call for charge of contracting teachers, consuming too much of his time. Jorge volunteers on February 1st, so please preparing the training material, Castro and Paul Cutler have stepped consider volunteering to help if you marketing, etc. and GNOME up to replace Lucas and Behdad. A can. Foundation will provide branding, warm welcome to the new board support, and quality control. The members and the board wishes to The board reached an agreement to training materials will be released with thank both Lucas and Behdad for the have a training session at GUADEC a . years of dedicated service towards the which will be run by Neary Consulting. The board has also been working hard GNOME community. We wish Lucas The fee will be approximately €1,500 to organize relevant hackfests to the best with his family and Behdad per person. The training session will prepare and plan for the GNOME 3 with his future endeavors. Also, Willie consists of full two-day sessions release. In Q1 the GNOME Foundation Walker is stepping down as the before the event covering the following helped to organize The GNOME GNOME accessibility team lead. The topics: Usability Hackfest in London (February board would like to thank Willie for all Development tools, including source 22-26), the Desktop Help Hackfest in of his dedicated help over the years control, profiling, IDE integration, Chicago (March 20-21), and the and wishes him the best for the future. and maybe a word on mobile Accessibility Hackfest at the CSUN On March 31, the board was excited to development environments; conference in San Diego (March announce the successful release of 23-27). Overview of the GNOME Platform; In Q1, the GNOME community has people from being able to make use 12-17), a Python Bindings hackfest in been working to improve of free desktop software. Boston, USA (April 14-18), and infrastructure and has made progress another Marketing hackfest in with adopting a new CRM system, On March 16th, the GNOME Zaragoza, (May 5-7). To though more work is needed. The Foundation and KDE e.V. boards further outreach to developing Foundation is now conducting regular decided to co-locate their flagship nations, the GNOME community is public IRC meetings to encourage conferences once again in 2011, and planning to have a presence at FOSS more community involvement in are now taking bids to host the Nigeria in Kano, Nigeria (April 23-25) GNOME Foundation business. The combined event. This follows on the and the Idlelo open source event in new Friends of GNOME donation successful 2009 Gran Canaria Accra, Ghana (May 17-21). ruler was successfully launched and Desktop Summit and will again has made a significant impact provide both communities with the Please consider becoming a Friend towards improving fundraising opportunity for both communities to of GNOME. Your donations really do towards hiring a GNOME system share talks, work together to improve help the GNOME Foundation administrator. free desktop software, and socialize. continue to grow and provide support and services for the success of the In February, the GNOME Foundation Looking forward to the next quarter, GNOME project. received a substantial $10,000 (US$) the board anticipates that a donation from the Mozilla Corporation significant amount of energy will be http://www.gnome.org/friends/ to benefit GNOME accessibility. The spent planning for GUADEC and The board is always looking for board would like to thank the Mozilla helping to ensure the success of people willing to help with different Corporation for promoting this GNOME 3 which is planned for tasks. If you are interested, we humanitarian project and we are release in September. The board is encourage you to get in touch with excited to have the resources to continuing to plan hackfests for the the GNOME board of directors further promote software that breaks next quarter including a GSettings (board@.org) to discuss the barriers that would otherwise prevent hackfest in Boston, USA (April best way for you to get involved. Release Team

Vincent Untz

The main focus in the beginning of The period for new module proposals reaching its limits, and we have 2010 was the final sprint towards the opened in February, with some initial explored several potential changes. A last major release of the GNOME 2.x discussion from the community. This sample of issues illustrate the need cycle. With two development instance is obviously a bit different for an evolution here. First, the releases, two beta releases, one compared to previous module arbitrary separation between the release candidate, the start of all the proposal periods since the next Platform and the Bindings can lead usual freezes and a good number of release is GNOME 3.0 and the new people to think that the bindings are freeze break requests, the three modules will receive even more second-class citizen while this is months of Q1 illustrated well the spotlight than usual. The proposed certainly not the case. Another issue broad work accomplished by the modules include the expected that we want to address is that the whole community for GNOME and gnome-shell, as well as various Desktop set has expanded so much 2.30.0. This effort lead to the applications: deja-dup (a backup that it's now unclear which type of successful release of 2.30.0 on tool), mousetrap (an accessibility tool application should go in and which March 29th. The release notes to control the mouse cursor), pdfmod shouldn't; it's also forcing us to highlight some of the new features or (an application to modify PDF files), choose one application over another, good improvements in this release: rygel (a collection of DLNA services) or to avoid this choice, like in the sending files easily to contacts, and simple-scan (a scanning tool). famous vs improved file management, better Other modules might still get case. Moreover, we strongly believe experience for instant messaging, proposed as the period for module that we should encourage a strong dbus-based gnome-keyring (using a proposals closes at the beginning of ecosystem of applications around protocol that will be shared with May. GNOME, and integrating all KDE), etc. applications in the GNOME Desktop An important area the release team moduleset is not the best way to Obviously, the release team did not wanted to explore for 3.0 is the achieve this. just work on getting GNOME 2.30.0 reorganization of the modulesets. As out, but also laid some foundations of today, we have the Platform, the In the next quarter, GNOME will for the next cycle. As a first step, an Desktop, the Bindings, the release two 2.30 stable releases, initial draft of the 2.31/3.0 Administrator Suite and the effectively marking the end of the 2.x development cycle was published, Developer Tools. This model has cycle. Of course, most of the and after some adjustments, got served us well and has actually community is already heavily announced. Continuing our evolved with time (we didn't have the involved in the 2.31 development long-standing tradition of six-months Administrator Suite and the cycle that will lead to GNOME 3.0 a release cycles, GNOME 3.0.0 will be Developer Tools at first). However, few months after GUADEC! out on September 29th. we feel that this organization is Bugsquad Team

Andre Klapper

From January to March, 8547 reports (391), Tobias Mueller (314), Jürg Jean-François Fortin Tam (76), (bugs + feature requests) were Billeter (274) and Guillaume Reinout van Schouwen (70), and opened and 7776 were closed. Desmottes (237). William Jon McCann (68).

Top bug closers were Akhil Laddha Top bug reporters were Akhil Laddha Apart from business as usual there (598 reports), Fabio Durán Verdugo (91 reports), Bastien Nocera (78), has been no other activity. Marketing Team

Paul Cutler

The Marketing team has been busy a new team lead in Joe 'Zonker' Issue 18 was a special edition brainstorming GNOME 3.0 marketing Brockmeier, Andreas Nilsson was focused on Multimedia with reviews activities which will be worked on at instrumental in launching the new of and Banshee, an interiew the upcoming Marketing Hackfest in GNOME store at with Jonathan Thomas, creator of Zaragoza, Spain the first week of http://www.zazzle.com/gnome, OpenShot and an article focusing on May. Discussion has centered Lucas Rocha and Andreas Nilsson writing multimedia applications with around answering the question "What helped with the Sysadmin fundraising Vala. Issue 19 released in late March is GNOME 3.0" including the impact campaign and the ruler on various featured an interview with Juan José of GNOME Shell, new and updated GNOME websites and the new Sánchez Penas of the GNOME applications on the GNOME Desktop gnome.org website saw a number of Advisory Board, opportunistic and potential promotional videos to content updates as it gets closer to development, an overview of Mallard, show users the changes. launching later this year. an article about the GNOME Community and a case study on the In addition to GNOME 3.0 planning Lastly, GNOME Journal saw two recent GNOME Bugzilla upgrade. the GNOME Press Team welcomed issues released in the first quarter. Usability Team

Calum Benson

The main focus for the usability team brainstorming of nautilus file workflow between GNOME this quarter has been organising, manager improvements designers working in different attending, and working on tasks locations and companies arising from the week-long GNOME planning updates to the GNOME User Experience Hackfest that was Human Interface Guidelines Thanks to Máirín Duffy from Red held in London in February. The Hat, and Robby Clements and Josh discussion of control center hackfest was sponsored by Adams from Isotope 11, the latter of enhancements (including card , Google, and the GNOME these discussions has spawned a sorting sessions with external Foundation, with Canonical's London new project called Design Hub: participants) office also being the venue. http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject /Whiteboard/DesignHub a new icon style for GNOME 3.0 It was one of the largest GNOME Pointers to most of the blog output hackfests ever organised, with improving designer and developer that was produced during the around 30 attendees over the week. awareness of accessibility issues As such, many topics were covered, hackfest can be found on Brian including: how best to present usability Cameron's blog: findings to developers http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry ongoing design and development /gnome_usability_hackfest_write_up. of gnome-shell for GNOME 3.0 improving communication and Accessibility Team

Bryen Yunashko

The GNOME Accessibility (A11y) improvements have been made Outreach – Bryen Yunashko took team has had a number of and joystick mode was restored. on the task of forming an GNOME developments in the past quarter. Focus on translattion from python A11y Outreach initiative to spread The biggest event was when many to ++ for better performance. the word about the benefits of of us travelled to San Diego in March This effort was led by Flavio GNOME Accessibility and bring of 2010 to participate in the first ever Percoli more user adoption and avenues GNOME A11y Hackfest and to man for contributions to a11y GNOME Foundation's booth at the Caribou - Continues to receive development. CSUN Accessibility Technology excellent contributions from the conference. This was organized by community. Ben Konrath and For the next quarter, the team Eitan Isaacson and made possible Steve Lee joined forces on a intends to focus primarily on through the generous grant from the hackfest competition between accessibility for GNOME Mozilla Foundation. Many of the UCLA and USC universities to 3.0/GNOME Shell as well as working Hackfest sessions were led by Willie improve Caribou. This contest was with projects like Project Possibility, Walker. sponsored by Project Possibility. HFOSS.org, and others to form strong partnership with students The Hackfest largely focused on WebKitGTK+ Accessibility – developing their skills around team organization and priorities for Strides in accessibility continue accessibility technology. the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release. with the contributions from And the conference booth exposed Joanmarie Diggs, Xan Lopez, and There is great concern about the many people unfamiliar with FOSS to interns from Igalia. accessibilty of GNOME 3.0, and the benefits of using a GNOME folks like Joseph Scheuhammer and Orca – Bug fixes continue to be desktop for their accessibility needs. Alejandro Piñeiro continue to give it implemented and towards the end their attention. The roadmap for Individually, we've seen contribution of the quarter, Joanmarie Diggs GNOME Shell accessibility can be and development continue to grow. assumed maintainership role for found at http://live.gnome.org the Orca community. /GnomeShell/RoadmapTwoThirtyOne MouseTrap – Useability #Accessibility Documentation Team

Shaun McCance

In the first quarter of 2010, the having, and how we provide After the Summit, Shaun, Phil, and documentation team completed four documentation that better reflects Milo had a planning session for the Mallard documents for the GNOME what our users actually use. new Mallard-based help for 3.0. They 2.30 desktop. They began planning focused on Internet connectivity and on other help documents, and helped At the Summit, Shaun and Richard file management. plan and write help for applications Johnson (KDE) created a proposal not in the official GNOME release. for a common place to install Phil has been talking with the documentation and a standard way team about using Mallard, and how Shaun hosted the Desktop Help to reference it. This will help GNOME's use of Mallard affects Summit, a small gathering of key third-party developers integrate with Ubuntu. The Ubuntu documentation documentation people from GNOME, the desktop, and it will help team seems largely positive. There KDE, , Fedora, and Ubuntu. distributors create and manage are some concerns which are being The Summit helped us understand common documentation. discussed and handled by the what problems distributors are community.. GNOME Mobile

Dave Neary

Third party related news: Intel & architecture/components design is GNOME to enable porting of GNOME Nokia announce MeeGo project and shown here: http://meego.com applications to MeeGo - we are still make initial source release (based on /developers/-architecture brainstorming how to spend the GNOME Mobile). Current MeeGo money. Nokia have proposed budget to GNOME Events

Stormy Peters (Looking for a new author!)

We had some great hackfests and USA), March 19-21 GSettings Hackfest, Boston (MA, events with a GNOME presense in USA), April 12-17 the first quarter of 2010. For more Desktop Help Hackfest, Chicago information on the hackfests, you (IL, USA), March 20-21 GNOME Hispano, Encuento en can check out the website, Sevilla 2010, Sevilla (Spain), May Accessibility Hackfest, San Diego http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests. 1-2 (CA, USA), March 22-27 GNOME devroom and GNOME Marketing Hackfest, Zaragoza GNOME Booth at CSUN, San Mobile at FOSDEM 2010, (Spain), May 5-7 Diego (CA, USA), March 22-27 February 6-7, 2010 GNOME booth, user group and In the second quarter of 2010 we are 2010 Workshop on the Future of talks at ENSOL, Brazil, May 6-9 planning: Research on Free/Open Source GNOME training and booth at Software, February 9-11 GNOME Booth at Texas IDLELO, Ghana, May 17-21 Fest, Austin (TX, USA), April 10 Usability Hackfest, London (UK), GNOME track at Linuxtag, February 22-26 Python Bindings Hackfest, Boston (), June 9-12 (MA, USA), April 14-18 Panel at Open Mobility, San GNOME talks at OSS Watch, Francisco (CA, USA), March 9-10 Desktop Track, Linux Foundation Oxford (UK), June 23-25 Collaboration Summit, San Talks at Libre Planet, Boston (MA, Francisco (CA, USA), April 14-16 Finances Germán Póo-Caamaño Income Expenses

Total Total $204,275 Total Income $69,543 Total Expenses

Friends of GNOME Accessibility $9,587 Friends of GNOME $6,000 Contracts

Accessibility Hackfests $10,000 Mozilla $4,337 Hackfests

Advisory Board Fees Events $70,000 2010 $196 Event Box US $10,000 2009 $7,798 GNOME Asia

Events $582 GUADEC (2009) $1,000 Boston Summit $2049 Other Events

$1,000 GNOME Asia Administrative $3,929 GUADEC (2009) $364 Bank fees

Income Affiliate Programs $5956 401K Plan/Wages $111.22 Amazon $13,020 Payroll taxes/Wages

Hackfests $818 Medicare/Wages $3,875 Hackfests $35 Office supplies

One time donation $24,961 Wages $7,213 One time donation Other expenses Other $3,438 Other expenses $14,150 Google Summer of Code $73,350 Corporate Donations $60 Interest - Bank Travel Committee

Bharath Acharya

GNOME started the year 2010 with a contributors for the Accessibility The Travel Committee started Q1 great vision for GNOME3 and kick Hackfest in San Diego. With some with a goal to clear off all the pending started the year with the Usability last minute additions and changes, reimbursements, and by the first and Accessibility Hackfests. we managed to sponsor 8 of them. week of April we did achieve it. We The details on the a11y hackfest can reviewed all the previous The Travel Committee sponsored 2 be found at http://live.gnome.org applications, collected the invoices contributors for the Usability /Accessibility/Hackfest2010. from all the sponsored contributors Hackfest held in London. They were and had them reimbursed within a sponsored for their airfare and also The hackfest organizers have done a week. This closes the chapter for the accommodation. You can read great job of aggregating all the blogs. 2009. The Travel Committee also more about this Hackfest at You could read on all the made its announcement of accepting http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject developments at sponsorship requests for GUADEC /London2010 We also sponsored http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests 2010. Membership & Elections Committee

Tobias Mueller

The GNOME membership and elections committee has processed 24 applications for a Foundation Membership and 20 applications for renewing a previous existing membership. During the same period, 13 members did not renew their membership and thus dropped out. We ended up with 370 members (+12 to the previous quarter).

Our new members are:

Adam Janos Reviczky Frank Solensky Koen Martens

Thibault Saunier Bradley M. Kuhn Hylke Bons

Marc-Andre Lureau Joanmarie Diggs Tomeu Vizoso

Jeff Schroeder Jim Evins Xabier Rodriguez Calvar

James Vasile Juan Jose Marin Martinez Nils-Christoph Fiedler

Ke Wang Holger Berndt Simon Van der Linden

David Schlesinger Scott Balneaves Zhang Sen

Benjamin Konrath Alexandre Franke Jean-François Fortin Tam

You can see a full list of members at http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php.

If you have any further question, do not hesitate to ask us on [email protected]. Women Outreach

Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Several women from GNOME apply for Google Summer of Code up with projects and mentors, and participated in a very successful (GSoC) with GNOME this year by provided application feedback. The track on women in free software at e-mailing the GNOME women mailing selection process is still underway. the LibrePlanet conference hosted by list, spreading the word on FSF on March 19-21 in Cambridge, Facebook, identi.ca, and Twitter, and In the next quarter we look forward MA. It was a great opportunity to e-mailing the individual women who to supporting the selected GSoC meet women from other free got in touch with us through the participant(s). We'll keep up our software projects and discuss the outreach program. In the end, there efforts to encourage women strategies for recruiting and retaining were five women applicants for participation in GNOME by making it women in free software. In addition, GSoC with GNOME this year - two more obvious that the mentors Máirín Duffy made a presentation of them originally got in touch with us participating in the Outreach Program about GIMP and and through the outreach program and for Women are happy to help women Marina Zhurakhinskaya made a three applied on their own. We get started with the projects any time presentation about GNOME Shell. guided all of them through the throughout the year and following up application process, matched them with interested women. We have encouraged women to Art Team

Hylke Bons

The Art Team has been quite active Vinicius Depizzol has been doing a Andreas Nilsson released a banner this quarter. lot beautiful design work for the new for GNOME 2.30 and did the new GNOME and GUADEC websites. GNOME Store website layout, Lapo Calamandrei and Jakub Steiner http://www.zazzle.com/gnome. delivered the finishing touches of At the User Experience Hackfest, GNOME's new icon theme, which Garrett LeSage, Jakub Steiner and The Art Team also did the Sys has been under development for a Hylke Bons made the first steps Admin Fundraising Campaign ruler couple of years now. It is great that towards a new visual style and and the Thank You banner. we can finally see this work released theme for GNOME 3.0 and gnome- in GNOME 2.30. With that comes a shell, including a symbolic icon set. In addition to that the Art Team has whole new set of high resolution Thomas Wood and Benjamin Berg been working on refreshing old icons. A lot of icon improvements started creating the technical assets that are scattered across the have also been contributed by the foundations needed to make these desktop. broader community. designs a reality. System Administration Team

Paul Cutler

The Sysadmin Team was happy to deploying a new server (Combobox) upgraded Openfire for welcome to new members in 2010, graciously donated to the GNOME jabber.gnome.org, Postfix was Christer Edwards and Ray Wang. In Foundation by Jeff Schroeder who is updated to reduce spam and a the first three months of the year, also on the Sysadmin team. number of closed mailing lists were the Sysadmin team worked on removed. In addition, the Sysadmin team Website

Lucas Rocha

Content is still being worked out.

Johannes will be fixing front to match expected design soon.