Tag Archives: gnome

On F-Spot maintainership

Posted on Thursday December 22, 2011 by Ruben

From the category of news I’ve been planning to send out for months, yet never got round to doing: With life work getting in the way, it’s been impossible for me to further maintain F-Spot. Fortunately, Stephen Shaw has offered … Continue reading →

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Surviving on OS X when you’re used to the terminal

Posted on Sunday September 18, 2011 by Ruben

If you’ve spent some portion of your life with Linux on your computer, you’ve undoubtably discovered the usefulness of the Linux command line. Sometimes it’s just quicker to get something done by pulling up a terminal and entering a one-liner. … Continue reading →

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Student session tomorrow

Posted on Friday August 5, 2011 by Ruben

As a reminder, the GNOME and KDE Interns Showcase at the Desktop Summit is on tomorrow at 17:15, which is in 24 hours from now (at the time of publishing). It’ll take place in the Audimax room. The main goal … Continue reading →

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Student session at the Desktop Summit

Posted on Friday July 29, 2011 by Ruben

The 2011 Desktop Summit in Berlin will be starting in a week from now. I’ll be there as part of the GNOME GSoC administration team. As part of that, we’re organizing a showcase session for all GNOME and KDE students. … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code 2011

Posted on Tuesday April 5, 2011 by Ruben

Like Vincent, I occasionally care too much about some things. Because of that, I volunteered for the second year in a row to help out as an admin for the GNOME Google Summer of Code. My role will mainly be … Continue reading →

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F-Spot going cross-platform

Posted on Sunday December 26, 2010 by Ruben

Timothy Howard started working on the heroic effort to port F-Spot to Windows. Still tons of work left to do, so it will take some time before this is anywhere near usable but it does seem to come along nicely. … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 Released!

Posted on Sunday December 19, 2010 by Ruben

We’ve just pushed out a stable bugfix release for F-Spot: 0.8.1. This version contains a lot of crash fixes as well as a large number of updated translations. Upgrading is highly recommended. Some highlights: A fix for the rather annoying … Continue reading →

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Renaissance man: Legal

Posted on Saturday October 9, 2010 by Ruben

commit 9e22fb3ccf56520c298fcc8bd95697c3d6f8adbd Author: Ruben Vermeersch <ruben@savanne.be> Date:   Sat Oct 9 13:58:34 2010 +0200 Change license to MIT X11. Many months ago I started contacting all F-Spot contributors and now I am happy to announce that the process has been completed: … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.8.0 Released!

Posted on Wednesday September 15, 2010 by Ruben

We are happy to announce that F-Spot 0.8.0 has been released! This is the first stable release since 0.6.2 back and packs a large number of new features as well as improvements. Nearly 300 bugs were closed during this cycle. … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.7.3 Released!

Posted on Thursday September 9, 2010 by Ruben

We’ve just rolled out F-Spot 0.7.3. This release, combined with a number of bugfixes that are planned to land over the weekend, will lead to the stable 0.8.0 release next week. In this release you will find more bug fixes … Continue reading →

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