Stepping down as GNOME Internships organizer

For the past nine years, I’ve been actively involved in our internship initiatives with Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. As an alumnus of these programs, I firmly believe they are great ways to onboard new contributors to GNOME and help students start a career in open-source software.

However, as my work responsibilities have grown and I’ve started some personal (non-software) projects, I’ve found myself with less time and energy for this type of contribution.

I’ve been discussing this with key people over the past year, and I plan to stay around to hand over responsibilities to other members of the Internship Committee. I will continue helping manage things for 2024, but I won’t be directly involved beyond that.

If you’re interested in helping with these activities, please reach out to the GNOME Internship Committee.

feborg.es/stepping-down-as-gno…

Internship Committee

The GNOME Internship Committee is a committee of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directions. It is responsible for promoting, organizing, and conducting internship programs such as Outreachy, Google ...

^{GNOME Project Handbook}

And I want to say I'm loving the state of #GNOME's app ecosystem. Lots of apps, most of them really nice, many of them incredibly polished and well designed. The vision of small applications that do one thing and do it great was never so close.

All my love for the developers of these and many other great applications out there, and also for the GNOME community, for creating the ground for such an ecosystem to grow.

Join us for a walking tour of downtown Denver on our final day at #GUADEC2024! We've organized a group outing on July 24 for anyone attending in person. Want to join? Make sure to reserve your spot by July 10: events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…

#GUADEC #GNOME #opensource #socialevent

#GUADEC2024 is just over a week away! Have you registered yet? Let us know if you're attending in person or remotely by signing up today: events.gnome.org/event/209/

#GUADEC #GNOME #opensource

Do you want to help secure GNOME and get a reward? 🏅

We are testing a new program in which people get a payment for reporting and/or solving vulnerabilities.

yeswehack.com/programs/gnome-b…

From €500 to €10,000 depending on criticality 💶

For now only GLib is in scope but we will expand the list of modules and advertise as the program grows.

In partnership with @yeswehack and @sovtechfund

#GNOME #infosec #FreeSoftware #security #bugBounty #OpenSource #cybersecurity

GNOME Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program - YesWeHack

GNOME Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program details

^{YesWeHack #1 Bug Bounty Platform in Europe}

Very happy to share another collaboration with @codethink 🤝

A new way to develop on Linux ✨

codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/…

#Linux #systemd #GNOME

A new way to develop on Linux

Continuing our collaboration with the GNOME Foundation, through the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), we have been busy on multiple fronts since our last update.

^{www.codethink.co.uk}

Thanks to @slomo the #gstreamer gtk4-paintable-sink just got support for video rotations. This is nice for video apps, making playback of video recorded on phones (portrait mode) more easy or faster (avoiding a copy compared to using a dedicated gst videoflip element).

The change is even better for Snapshot, the #gnome camera app: it uses the sink for its viewfinder and avoiding additional copies here has quite an impact on #mobilelinux devices.

gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstream…

#gtk #rustlang

gtk4: Add support for rotations / flipping (!1590) · Merge requests · GStreamer / gst-plugins-rs · GitLab

Fixes #284

^GitLab

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#155 Overhauled Keyrings
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

Maybe the last batch of new GNOME app icons in #pixelart form. Time to shove them into the updated wallpaper.

#gnome #app #icon #pixaki #nostalgia

Join us at our #GUADEC2024 social events! We're kicking things off in Denver a day early with a pre-reg party, we'll host our traditional GUADEC dinner during the conference, and we have two exciting social outing options! Learn more and sign up: events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…

#GNOME #GUADEC

I'm quite happy how upcoming performance improvements for #gnome Snapshot and #libcamera are shaping up. This is how things are now running for me on a #librem5:

#gstreamer #gtk #postmarketos #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

Attending #GUADEC2024 in Denver and still need accommodation? Reach out to us by the end of today to reserve one of our room blocks: events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…

#GUADEC #GNOME

I finally published my app to Flathub!

Echo is a GUI ping utility. Give it a try, but go easy on me as it's my first real project :))

flathub.org/apps/io.github.lo2…

#GNOME #GTK #linux

Install Echo on Linux | Flathub

Ping websites

^Flathub

It's pride month ... again! July is disability pride month ♿

Maybe I will add some random thoughts and experiences related to disability to this thread over the month. So long I will leave you with the seasonal design for apps.gnome.org

#DisabilityPrideMonth #disability #GNOME

Discover the best Apps for GNOME – Apps for GNOME

Discover the best applications in the GNOME ecosystem and learn how to get involved.

^{apps.gnome.org}

There's been recently some confusion in #postmarketOS as GNOME Software is still on version 45. The main reason is that the simple plugin: github.com/Cogitri/gnome-softw… we use for APK has not been updated to follow GNOME Software's library changes. If anybody is interested in helping with maintenance for that project, I can provide guidance and reviews, and we will all be very pleased!

#GNOME #gnomesoftware

GitHub - Cogitri/gnome-software-plugin-apk: Seperate repo until gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/438 is merged

Seperate repo until https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/438 is merged - Cogitri/gnome-software-plugin-apk

^GitHub

@antoniof has been doing some fantastic work on the new Nautilus file chooser. We're finally getting to a point where we'll be shipping a usable adaptive file chooser upstream.

(NOTE: this is still not merged, and I'm showcasing the current state of the WIP branches)

#GNOME #nautilus #libadwaita

Ticked off a few more to-do items for my upcoming icon manager app!

- When importing a folder of icons it now scans sub-directories too. It can handle icons with the same name but in different folders, and it looks for keywords in folders and filenames like "solid" or "duotone" to detect the icon style.
- You can filter by icon style
- Flip a coin. If it's heads, you can delete a set without the app crashing. (I got tails)

#UXDesign #IconBear #GTK #GNOME
Source code: github.com/azuredusk10/IconBea…

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#154 Pride Day!
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG #pride

Friday sketches.

#gnome #app #icon #design #sketch #procreate

Some GNOME websites are getting modernized and simplified, but Planet GNOME has fallen behind. Not anymore. I started a prototype for a Python script to publish Planet GNOME with GitLab Pages/CI.

As Planet GNOME Editor, I am often asked to look for blog and syndication issues I couldn’t really address due to limited server-side access. With this, debugging indexing issues should be easier as it is just about looking at the CI job output.

Also, the Planet website is perceived as messy and outdated. So this work allowed Jakub Steiner to quickly jump in and restyle the page from a clean state.

Try it live at felipeborges.pages.gitlab.gnom… and let me know what you think. Keep in mind this is a proof of concept. Tips, feedback, and contributions are welcome in the project repo.

This still doesn’t produce the global Planet rss feed, just the webpage, but that’s in my TODO list too.

P.S.: I know feed readers/parsers can over-request rss/atom feeds. So I plan to cache data and use metadata to avoid redundant downloads before this is even considered as a replacement for the current Planet implementation. No worries. 😉

feborg.es/rethinking-planet-gn…

#blogs #feeds #gitlab #gnome #planet #rss

Felipe Borges / planet.gnome.org · GitLab

^GitLab

(Also) In an alternative universe, Susan Kare designed some GNOME icons.

Senile old man update: She did in fact work on GNOME icons.

#pixelart #gnome #design #wallpaper #pixaki #gegl #wanda #patch #tux #footfetish

Resources 1.5 has landed on Flathub yesterday with battery monitoring along with other bug fixes and improvements! 🥳

Check it out! :)

flathub.org/apps/net.nokyan.Re…

#Linux #GNOME #Flatpak #Flathub

Install Resources on Linux | Flathub

Keep an eye on system resources

^Flathub

The state of Unix/Linux accessibility is even worse then I feared 🙈 . Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS?

Orca doesn't work on any distribution that ships with Wayland by default? 😭 (thanks @aral for bringing it my attention)

Do all the distributions and such know that next year they should be accessible?

I can't code and I am not familiar with testing desktop apps, but I would really like to know how I can help to fix this.

(allthough it shows a bigger problem in open source and it's culture)

Read more: ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…

Luckily the Newton Project should fix this blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…, but still: it shows accessiiblity is often an afterthought.

#accessibility #opensource #orca #gnome #wayland #screenreader

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#153 Proudly Colorful
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

Sketch Friday!

#procreate #sketch #gnome #app #icon #design

Really glad we finally get DRM lease (thus VR) on gnome wayland

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/…

#floss #gnome #wayland

Add Wayland DRM lease protocol support (!3746) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab

Add Wayland DRM lease protocol support. Based on the work by

^GitLab

For eight years Fedora has been shipping GNOME with a broken screen reader!

EIGHT YEARS!

(Wayland has been default on Fedora for eight years – since Fedora 25, released in 2016.)

And a hundred-billion-dollar corporation like IBM ships operating systems today based on it with a broken screen reader.

What is an ableist culture? One in which the people who call this out get ostracised.

#ableism #fedora #redHat #IBM #gnome #cosmic #wayland #a11y #system76 #linux fosstodon.org/@soller/11264637…

TypeScript progress in Workbench 👀

• Inline type checks
• Auto completion

By GSoC student @vixalientoots 👏

#GNOME #GSoC #GTK #TypeScript

Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project ✨

blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…

Great work @matt !

Looking forward to work with you again next year and ship this!

Thank you @sovtechfund ❤️

#Wayland #freedesk #Linux #GNOME #GTK #Flatpak #accessibility #a11y

One more demo of GTK autocomplete in Workbench

I'm very happy so far with the experience, checkout the video.

I love that the same feature can be used to discover widgets, properties and write UI faster.

There are still many improvements to be made, but I think it's close to a first release.

You can try it yourself in Workbench nightly blog.sonny.re/workbench-news

Feedback very welcome

Credits to @flyingpimonster for making this possible!

#GNOME #GTK

Awesome update and progress by GNOME GSoC student @atbrat on porting Workbench demos to Vala

medium.com/@bharat.atbrat/gsoc…

Vala took the lead over Python 😉

Thanks to @lw64 and @dimmednerd for reviewing

#GNOME #GSoC #Vala #GTK #pygobject

Exhibit is an amazing 3d preview app. Really handy for those working with 3D printing.

flathub.org/apps/io.github.nok…

#gnome #app

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#152 Bottom Sheets
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

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#LAS2024 #GNOME #KDE #OpenSource