OMG! Ubuntu ran a postmortem yesterday: Why Did Geary’s Fundraiser Fail? It’s a question we’ve been asking ourselves at Yorba, obviously. Quite a number of people have certainly stepped forward to offer their opinions, in forums and comment boards and…
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Geary crowdfunding: What’s next?
Thirty days comes and goes faster than you think. The Geary crowdfunding campaign’s 30 days are up, and unfortunately, we didn’t make our target amount. That means Yorba will take in none of the $50,860 pledged by 1,192 generous donors…
Geary crowdfunding: CiviCRM comes through
I’m pleased to pass on that CiviCRM and one of its funders have collectively pledged $10,000 to the Geary crowdfunding campaign! This is a huge shot in the arm to the campaign, pushing us over the $40K mark. As they…
Geary crowdfunding: A perspective from Bytemark
Earlier today Bytemark’s Managing Director Matthew Bloch posted an incredibly encouraging blog post on why his company supports Geary and wants it to succeed. Some key points that are well worth considering: Facebook and Twitter continue to use their muscle…
Geary crowdfunding: GPG privacy, calendar integration, and more
As promised on our Geary crowdfunding campaign page, we want to know what features our users are looking for in an email client. And in listening to you, we have some good news to announce. To refresh your memory, these…
After a three-year hiatus, Valencia 0.4 is here
We’re pleased to announce the release of Valencia 0.4, Yorba’s gedit plugin for Vala programmers. It’s difficult to believe that it’s been nearly three years since the last Valencia release, but it’s true. Although it’s been a long time coming,…
Geary crowdfunding: how did we come up with that number?
The Geary crowdfunding campaign has been a wild three days so far! We’ve even been featured in a TechCrunch article, “Crowdfunding, Micro-patronage, And The Free Desktop”. Scott Merrill had some tough questions for me about how the money we raised…
Geary funding campaign is live on IndieGoGo! Donate today
A couple of weeks ago, I told you we were working on a crowdfunding project for Geary: We hope that a successful campaign will demonstrate that crowdfunding is a sustainable model for other projects to follow. Many of those projects…
Exciting times for Yorba (we need your videos!)
Yesterday was an auspicious day here at Yorba: Shotwell is four years old. It’s hard to believe that from that rather meager first commit grew the photo manager we have today! Well, today is another auspicious day here at Yorba. …
The Garden of the Forking Paths
A thought experiment: A software developer decides to write an open-source GNOME desktop application that interacts with any number of Internet services, such as Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, and so forth. It’s not specific to any one service, however. The app…
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Posted in Geary, GNOME, Hacking, Shotwell
Posted in Geary, GNOME, Hacking, Shotwell
