GNOME Annual Report 2011

Quarterly Report Overview (Quarters 1-3)

Bug Squad

André Klapper

Updated per Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html&days=365&products=0&reporters=60&hunters=60&patchers=60&reviewers=100

Art & Usability Teams

Calum Benson tweaked themes, backgrounds etc for GNOME 3,

Design Team

Work on new features continued, Allan Day wrote two good blog posts regarding many of them: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/presenting-gnome-contacts/#more-853 & http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/news-from-gnome-shell-land/#more-895

Participated in ongoing prototyping & design including: Eye of GNOME, gEDit facelift, Adwaita themes, Notification tay, Empathy video chat, Nautilus toolbar.

Marketing

Sumana Harihareswara

Allan Day & Sumana Harihareswara were chosen for marketing contract position and started in February. The marketing team has continued to make its presence felt on social media integrating one with another, and broke past 10,000 followers on Twitter in May.

Two User Days were organized, and launch parties for GNOME 3 were organized - in the end more than 100 were held all around the world. The launch of GNOME 3 was well covered - online, in social media & in print as well.

The GNOME Journal released its first bilingual edition (in english & spanish), and a special edition for the launch of GNOME 3 was also put out in April.

Mobile

Claudio Saavedra) (Quarter 1) GTK+/MeeGo integration project was kickstarted.

Website

Lucas Rocha, Andreas Nilsson & Vinicus Depizzol

The gnome.org website was launched & rebuilt using wordpress, making it easy to edit, thanks to Vinicus & his Google Summer of Code project translation infrastructure is now included as well.

A new site, specificaly designed for developers was launched - developer.gnome.org giving developers tutorials on getting started, as well as an overview of the platform.

Finally, Planet GNOME was given a face lift thanks to Alberto Ruiz.

Documentation

Shaun McCance

The Documentation team met up in Toronto in March, producing more than 200 pages. They continued to refine help topics regarding GNOME 3, with 3 members attending the Open Help Conference in June. There they met with other documentation & support teams from other open-source projects. After the conference both the GNOME & Mozilla teams held 3 day long sprints, bringing contributors up to speed, including two Outreach Program for Women interns.

Membership & Board of Directors

Tobias Mueller, Karen Sandler

Membership requirements were changed at the beginning of the year, requiring two vouchers for applications to be accepted. Staff changes were also made with Susana Pereira leaving and Christer Edwards joining the Membership & Elections Committee. 2011 started with 351 members, and ending with 347 (as of Quarter 3 report)

Elections were held for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. Thirteen applications were accepted with 7 being selected: Emmanuele Bassi, Brian Cameron, Ryan Lortie, Shaun McCance, Bastien Nocera, Germán Póo-Caamaño, Stormy Peters. Much thanks to all outgoing members (Emily Chen, Paul Cutler, Og Maciel and Andreas Nilsson).

New officers for the board are: Brian Cameron (President) Bastien Nocera (Vice President) Emmanuele Bassi (Secretary) Shaun McCance (Treasurer).

A Coruña, Spain was chosen for GUADEC 2012, and the Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany was a huge success.

Events

Frederic Muller

GNOME.Asia Summit ran for its 4th yr, during which the GNOME 3 launch was ironed out. More than 1000 people attended and 90% of talks focused on GNOME related topics. Free GNOME training for 260 students in Bangalore was provided & explained to local businesses & academics.

Outreach Program for Women

Marina Zhurakhinskaya

The Outreach Program for women, the first round of which was held December 15 2010 - March 15, 2011 had 8 participants, all of whom had their work included in GNOME 3.

For the second round it was decided to set the same dates as for Google Summer of Code, which proved successful in encouraging more women to apply for both programs. As a result, along with another 8 participants for GNOME’s OPW, out of 27 GSOC participants 7 were women.

GNOME Outreach Program, May - August 2011

Google Summer of Code 2011

Nine interns from the first two rounds attended the Desktop Summit in Berlin Germany in August, some doing lightning talks during the GNOME & KDE Interns Showcase and 23 attended the GNOME women’s dinner.

The 15 GNOME interns from this summer made lots of contributions and 3 attended the Montreal Summit in Canada; Marina Zhurakhinskaya & André Klapper also attended the GSoC mentors summit in Mountain View, California.

For the latest round (started December 15, 2011 - March 15, 2012), 12 interns were chosen.

GNOME User Groups

Beijing (Emily Chen): User Group launched a store on March 1st 2011 ( http://gnome.taobao.com/)

Taiwan (Chun Hung Huang): Video streaming was used for Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei Taichung & Kaohsiung to celebrate GNOME 3 Launch party simultaneously. A 3rd workshop for gtk+ with OSSF was held for those wanting to learn.

Phillipine (Allan Caeg): Regularly advocate GNOME along with KahelOS, celebrated GNOME 3.2 release w/ other GUGs around the world.

New Users Group

(Pockey Lam): 72 member subscribed to Gugmaster-list, two new GNOME communities were established, one in Pakistan & one in Malaysia

(EmilyChen): Promoted GNOME.Asia Summit 2011, release parties, best GNOME 3 photo, new user groups & bids for GUADEC 2012. Emails with interest to start new GNOME communities were received for Chennai India (Shaswat Nimesh), New Delhi India (Manish Yadav), Hungary (Andras Bognar), USA (Steven Mautone) Switzerland (Marcus Moeller).

Localization

Petr Kovar

Localization worked hard in 2011 localizing and translating GNOME 3 along with countless help files, so that when GNOME 3, and later 3.2 shipped more than 50 languages were supported with at least 80% translation.

Priscilla Mahlangu, an Outreach Program for Women intern (May - August 2011) helped to improve Zulu translation from 4% to 10%, and the Spanish team completed the first official GIMP documentation translation, thanks to Ignacio Ant.

Accessibility

Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias and Joanmarie Diggs

Great improvements were made in accessibility in 2011 with the release of GNOME Shell, which is mostly navigable with a keyboard. The GNOME Shell Magnifier includes support for brightness, contrast & inverse video along with the expected magnification. Work is ongoing to make it fully accessible to screen readers via Orca, which was migrated succesfully along with Gtk+, Acceercisor, while Gail was succesffuly merged into Gtk+. Improvements have also been made to WebKitGtk, including those to Yelp 3 & Epiphany.

The Orca community has reached out to spanish speakers and implementing support for them. An ATK/AT-SPI hackfest was held in Igalia, Spain where an intensive anaylisis of ATK & its future was completed. AT-SP12 was significantly stabilized, and in so doing cross-desktop accessibility support enabled. lNew libatspi-based plug-in created for Compiz.

Alejandro Piñeiro gave 2 presentations at the Desktop Summit on GNOME Accesibility. GNOME & KDE co-hosted events to improve accessibility on the free desktop. Meanwhile at FOSDEM the first Accessibility Devroom was held, and collaboration with XFCE developers has begun. 5 team members also attended CSUN where alternatives to mainstream technologies were demonstrated, including demos of GNOME 3.Aline Bessa is the accesibility team’s first intern. She is from Brazil and has contributed documentation for Accerciser along with bug fixes for it.

Release Team

Frederic Peters Several team members gathered at GNOME.Asia for last minute fixes w/ integration. Vincent Untz, Karsten Bräckelmann, Frédéric Crozat, Lucas Rocha retired, and Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, Javier Jardón,Colin Walters, Luca Ferretti joined and Frederic Peters became the manager.

Between 3.1.3 & 3.2.0 were seven releases. Javier Hernandez handled live images for 3.2 using Open Build Service & plans were made to start sooner for 3.4 in order to get images out for beta releases.

Sysadmin

Christer Edwards) (Quarter 2)

A slow quarter, but thats a good thing! Are expanding & improving hardware, including 2 new servers racked & networked.