'community' Category

• Nov 04
  2012

  How to start contributing to Xfce or any other open source project

  It’s been a while since I’ve updated this website and even longer since
  I’ve written anything useful. But since I’ve received a couple of mails
  from people looking to contribute to Xfce recently, I thought I’d share
  so…

  posted in bugs, community, Xfce, xubuntu by Jannis Pohlmann

• Feb 09
  2012

  FOSDEM 2012

  This year’s FOSDEM is over and I hope that most of us have by now recovered from an exhausting weekend that was first and foremost exciting and a lot of fun! With about 12 people, the Xfce group was—I think—larger than ever before…

  posted in community, conference, fosdem, releases, talks, thumbnails, tumbler, Xfce, xfce4-settings by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 17
  2012

  Xfce 4010 – (release-schedule and versioning)

  Hi all, There has been a lengthy discussion about the xfce version-number. Is it OK to call the next version of xfce 4.10? Some package maintainers have a problem with 4.10 being a later version then 4.8, since they see 4.10 as 4.1 with an extra decimal for precision. Since it could cause upgrade-problems for [...]

  posted in community, Development, releases, Xfce by Stephan Arts

• Jan 06
  2012

  Documentation Wiki

  Over the last years we’ve tried many techniques to make it easier to submit documentation for the Xfce packages. Unfortunately, whatever we’ve tried; hardly any documentation was contributed. Complete documentation (or close to that) was still a goal for Xfce 4.10, so we’ve decided to drop the package manuals for the next stable release (now [...]

  posted in community, Xfce by Nick

• Dec 08
  2011

  Looking for new maintainers for some of my projects

  I am looking for a new maintainer for some of the open source projects I started over the last couple of years. Due to taking a full-time position as a software engineer, I will have less spare time to hack in the near future than I had while being…

  posted in community, gstreamer, work, Xfce, xfce4-mixer by Jannis Pohlmann

• Sep 28
  2011

  On MeeGo

  Whatever MeeGo was, it never made it into the open source mainstream, which I consider to consist of projects actively worked on by volunteers and companies alike, and didn’t manage to become an project attractive enough for individual open s…

  posted in community, Meego, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Aug 29
  2011

  Looking for a full time job in Open Source

  Two years ago I was really close to canceling my studies and looking for a job instead. In the end I continued studying, passed the final exams of my Diplom (the German old-school equivalent to a Master’s degree) with excellent results and st…

  posted in community, diplom, studies, university, work, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Feb 07
  2011

  Xfce Foundation e.V. launched at FOSDEM!

  This year’s FOSDEM was a special one. Read more about it in this mail:

  Hi everyone,

  as some of you might have read, several of us Xfce developers and
  packagers have attended FOSDEM this weekend. There was a lot of talking
  and a bit of brain…

  posted in community, conference, donations, fosdem, Xfce by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 16
  2011

  Xfce 4.8 released!

  Today, after almost two years of work, we have the special pleasure of announcing the much awaited release of Xfce 4.8, the new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.6.
  We hope that everyone will enjoy this release as much as we do. Sadly, this wil…

  posted in community, conference, fosdem, gio, HAL, releases, thunar, transifex, translations, uds, volume management, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann

• Jan 10
  2011

  Attending FOSDEM 2011

  Today Nick and I booked hotel rooms for FOSDEM so now it’s official that the two of us will be there. I’m very much looking forward to it and I’m hoping to meet some of you at the FOSDEM Beer Event on Friday! Still need to think …

  posted in community, conference, fosdem, studies, travelling, university, Xfce, xfce48 by Jannis Pohlmann