Can anyone recommend a fairly recent model of scanner that is absolutely sure to work with Ubuntu Linux. I guess that means that it will work with the “XSane Image Scanner”, from inside Gimp, and with the gnomescan project’s “flegita” GUI. By recent I mean widely available to buy now.
I have too many paper-only documents [...]

The response to my call for Openismus trainees was excellent. I have now selected two trainees who will start in January 2009 and I really wish we could afford to take a couple more. I’ll announce the names soon. Furthermore, Daniel Elstner will return to Openismus to train them in the Berlin office, starting in [...]

With Olav’s help, I have now moved both www.gnome.org/projects/ and developer.gnome.org/projects/ to projects.gnome.org, with the old URLs redirecting. That sub-domain existed before, but I don’t think anyone was using it. It’s still in the old gnomeweb-wml svn module, but it’s separated into its own subdomain directory. Tell me if anything still seems to be broken.
We [...]

My father has become slightly obsessed with tracking his family tree. He’s done lots of research going back around six generations. He uses a Windows application (called “Generations”, I think, but I’m not sure now), which is very awkward, though he manages.
When his grandson Liam arrived, he wanted to put Liam’s family tree in his [...]

It has always been difficult to find GNOME developers to employ. So for a while I have wanted to grow some new developers of our own. Now that the Berlin office is established we are ready to start by hiring some junior developers.
If you are smart and enthusiastic but you lack experience then we can [...]