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GNOME and Guadec Updates, Coverage
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Emmanuele Bassi: Governance in GNOME
How do things happen in GNOME?
Things happen in GNOME? Could have fooled me, right?
Of course, things happen in GNOME. After all, we have been releasing every six months, on the dot, for nearly 25 years. Assuming we’re not constantly re-releasing the same source files, then we have to come to the conclusion that things change inside each project that makes GNOME, and thus things happen that involve more than one project.
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GNOME ☛ Daiki Ueno: Optimizing CI resource usage in upstream projects
At GnuTLS, our journey into optimizing GitLab CI began when we faced a significant challenge: we lost our GitLab.com Open Source Program subscription. While we are still hoping that this limitation is temporary, this meant our available CI/CD resources became considerably lower. We took this opportunity to find smarter ways to manage our pipelines and reduce our footprint.
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Hubert Figuière ☛ Hubert Figuière: Dev Log July 2025
AbiWord
Working on rebasing and finishing an "old" patch from Michael Gorse that implement accessibility in AbiWord. While the patch is a few years old, it's perfectly rebasable.
Pushed a lot of code modernisation on master, as well as various memory leaks and crashes on stable.
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GNOME ☛ Jonathan Blandford: GUADEC 2025: Thoughts and Reflections
Another year, another GUADEC. This was the 25th anniversary of the first GUADEC, and the 25th one I’ve gone to. Although there have been multiple bids for Italy during the past quarter century, this was the first successful one. It was definitely worth the wait, as it was one of the best GUADECs in recent memory.
This was an extremely smooth conference — way smoother than previous years. The staff and volunteers really came through in a big way and did heroic work! I watched Deepesha, Asmit, Aryan, Maria, Zana, Kristi, Anisa, and especially Pietro all running around making this conference happen. I’m super grateful for their continued hard work in the project. GNOME couldn’t happen without their effort.
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GNOME ☛ Tobias Bernard: GUADEC 2025
Last week was this year’s GUADEC, the first ever in Italy! Here are a few impressions.
Local-First
One of my main focus areas this year was local-first, since that’s what we’re working on right now with the Reflection project (see the previous blog post). Together with Julian and Andreas we did two lightning talks (one on local-first generally, and one on Reflection in particular), and two BoF sessions.