Author: Felipe Borges

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Using Libravatar/Gravatar for your profile in Planet GNOME

Now that the new planet.gnome.org website is live, we have added Libravatar and Gravatar support. Instead of having the Planet website host user images itself, we are giving members the choice to use profile images/avatars from these services.

If you are interested in updating your profile picture, check out the instructions at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/planet.gnome.org#adding-an-avatar and file an issue. Extra points if you do a merge-request! 🙂

The old hackergotchis are an important part of our community’s history, so I set up a static website to host the old files. Feel free to file an issue if you want yours taken down from there.

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GNOME is Sponsoring an Outreachy Internship Project for GNOME Crosswords!

We are excited to announce that the GNOME Foundation is sponsoring an Outreachy internship project for the June 2025 to August 2025 internship round!

Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.

The intern will work with mentors Jonathan Blandford, Federico Mena Quintero, and Tanmay Patil on the project Add Wordlist Scoring to the GNOME Crosswords Editor.

The intern’s blog will soon be added to Planet GNOME, where you can follow their project updates and learn more about them. Stay tuned!

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GNOME Welcomes Its Google Summer of Code 2025 Contributors!

We are happy to announce that five contributors are joining the GNOME community as part of GSoC 2025!

This year’s contributors will work on backend isolation in GNOME Papers, adding eBPF profiling to Sysprof, adding printing support in GNOME Crosswords, and Vala’s XML/JSON/YAML integration improvements. Let’s give them a warm welcome!

In the coming days, our new contributors will begin onboarding in our community channels and services. Stay tuned to Planet GNOME to read their introduction blog posts and learn more about their projects.

If you want to learn more about Google Summer of Code internships with GNOME, visit gsoc.gnome.org.

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It’s alive! Welcome to the new Planet GNOME!

A few months ago, I announced that I was working on a new implementation of Planet GNOME, powered by GitLab Pages. This work has reached a point where we’re ready to flip the switch and replace the old Planet website.

You can check it out at planet.gnome.org

This was only possible thanks to various other contributors, such as Jakub Steiner, who did a fantastic job with the design and style, and Alexandre Franke, who helped with various papercuts, ideas, and improvements.

As with any software, there might be regressions and issues. It would be a great help if you report any problems you find at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/planet.gnome.org/-/issues

If you are subscribed to the old Planet’s RSS feed, you don’t need to do anything. But if you are subscribed to the Atom feed at https://planet.gnome.org/atom.xml, you will have to switch to the RSS address at https://planet.gnome.org/rss20.xml

Here’s to blogs, RSS feeds, and the open web!

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Flock to Fedora is coming to Prague!

I’m passing by to let you know that Flock to Fedora 2025 is happening from June 5th to 8th in Prague, here in the Czech Republic.

I will be presenting about Flatpaks, Fedora, and the app ecosystem, and would love to meet up with people interested in chatting about all things GNOME, Flatpak, and desktop Linux.

If you’re a GNOME contributor interested in attending Flock, please let me know. If we have enough people, I will organize a GNOME Beers meetup too.

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Time to write proposals for GSoC 2025 with GNOME!

It is that time of the year again when we start gathering ideas and mentors for Google Summer Code.

@Mentors, please submit new proposals in our Project ideas GitLab repository before the end of January.

Proposals will be reviewed by the GNOME GSoC Admins and posted in https://gsoc.gnome.org/2025 when approved.

If you have any doubts, please don’t hesitate to contact the GNOME Internship Committee.

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Announcement: GNOME will have an Outreachy intern working on librsvg

We are excited to announce that the GNOME Foundation is sponsoring an Outreachy internship for the December-March round!

The intern will work with mentor Federico Mena Quintero on the project, “Implement the SVG2 text layout algorithm in librsvg.”

The intern’s blog will soon be added to Planet GNOME, where you can follow their project updates and learn more about them. Stay tuned!