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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Tagged with: gnome online accounts, goa, ubuntu, ubuntu online accounts, uoa
Posted in Geary, GNOME, Hacking, Shotwell
Posted in Geary, GNOME, Hacking, Shotwell
Stirring the pond
If you’ve ever submitted a ticket to Yorba, you probably received an email from our Redmine server some time in the last week or so. I’ve been going through each Shotwell and Geary bug one-by-one in an attempt to circumscribe…
Yorba and crowdfunding at LWN.net
Nathan Willis at LWN.net has written a great article summarizing the keynote Adam Dingle and I gave at GUADEC, “Crowdfunding GNOME Application Development” (PDF slides are here). For those of you who missed the talk, Nathan’s précis gives a nice…
A Coruña on My Mind
Ok, ok, yet another post-GUADEC wrap-up. A few things worth sharing: * The keynote Adam and I gave this year, “Crowdfunding GNOME Application Development”, went off great. I would say “without a hitch” but of course there was a hitch…
GUADEC 2012: Where’s Yorba?
Above is the official group photo from GUADEC 2012. Much like a certain book series, see if you can spot the Yorbans. (Bonus points if you can find all four of us in the photo.)
Yorba at GUADEC, A Coruña
Five of the Yorba crew will be attending GUADEC in A Coruña this year: Adam, Eric, Lucas, Charles, and myself. This is Charles’ first time to GUADEC, but the rest of us should be familiar faces to many GUADEC regulars…
Continuing adventures of the Travelling Gnome
For the past month the Yorba offices were home to a strange two-faced creature. As of today, the little guy left our offices to embark on the next stage of his journey around the world. Here’s some vacation photos of…
Computer problems
I was having trouble with my computer — it didn’t want to boot. So I opened it up, and look what was inside! Not sure where the little guy came from, but in any event we’ll have to keep him…
Why I Like GNOME 3 Shell
Friday night at the c-base pre-registration party Karen Sandler asked me what I thought of GNOME 3, and in particular, the GNOME 3 Shell. Although I’m generally impressed with it and enjoy using it daily, I couldn’t enumerate for her…
On Novacut
What follows is my opinion alone and does not represent the views of the Yorba Foundation or its employees. There’s been some noise in the Gnomish blogosphere about Novacut and their recent (and second) attempt at fundraising via Kickstarter. Probably…
