Last weekend I was in the in the mood of finishing the support to annotate PDF documents in Poppler's GLib frontend.
For those who do not know, Poppler is the library used by Evince (and by extension Documents) to render PDF documents. Any performance or visual improvement in Poppler is an improvement for Evince.
I restructured poppler-glib-demo to make easier to add and test multiple types of annotations (it was tied to text annotations, the ones …
read moreThe User Help Hackfest started on Thursday 17th. Since then, we have been working in two tasks: user help and developer documentation.
Our host at CDOT (Centre for Development of Open Technology), Chris Tyler, organized a lunchtime talk where Shaun McCance explained the evolution of GNOME and showed the upcoming GNOME 3, followed by a session of Q&A. The audience was very interested in our next version and they made plenty of questions.
Thanks to the feedback of some teams, a draft of GNOME Foundation 2011 budget and plans (from October 2010 to September 2011) is available to be reviewed. There are two documents: a summary with short explanations of every item and a spreadsheet with the consolidated items.
If your team has an activity in mind (hackfest, conference, or another GNOME related activity or idea), you can send your plan (with goals, deliverables and budget required …
read moreWhen I ran for a seat for the Board of Directors of the GNOME Foundation one year ago, as many other contributors, I did not have a clear idea of what a director was supposed to do. However, I had an idea of the results I wanted to see.
For people still hesitating if run or not, you should consider:
What are the results you would like to see?
Be aware of the results that other …