This is a slightly modified version of my email to the maemo-developers list, in case a Debian person can clear this up for me:
When creating maemo packages, we will tend to take the debian or Ubuntu package and modify it for maemo. However, for C++ libraries, and maybe C libraries, the latest Debian or Ubuntu […]

I am very proud of GNOME (and our new decisive GNOME Foundation board) for the initial progress we’ve made on the lack of involvement of women in our project. The discussion has opened a lot of peoples’ eyes to a problem that they didn’t recognise before, and we’ve already taken some steps to deal with […]

GNOME’s performance-list mailing list is very high signal at the moment, though the archives seems to have lost emails for a few days.
These test results and suggested workaround/fixes are worth a gazillion viciously uninformed osnews or IRC discussions. Here’s a summary of what I’ve noticed recently though I can’t find the exact archive URLs for […]

Yesterday I released gtkmm 2.9.8, with GNOME 2.15/16 API freeze approaching on July 16th. Mostly everything is done, apart from a problem with the custom print preview, some of the TextBuffer serialization API, and an improvement to the recent files example. So, C++ people, do look at the new API, because now is the chance […]

I just uploaded a new appendix to the gtkmm book, on wrapping C libraries, including all the tedious search/replace details of setting up a directory structure, creating the various .defs files, and some of the common problems. I did this while wrapping a simple C library for a customer who also wanted to have the […]

There’s a lot of employment opportunities out there for GNOME developers at the moment to do embedded stuff. That’s a nice reward for all your contributions, and a chance to spend your time on something you love. I personally know of the following:

Helsinki, Finland, with Nokia, on Maemo.
Several jobs in the midwest U.S. (can’t say […]

On Monday evening I returned from Barcelona where I spent the weekend after the GNOME conference. I’ve just about caught up with the stuff that stacked up during the week away, and I hope to have a full night’s sleep some time soon.
I noticed that I was getting very little email while at GUADEC, and […]