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Currently in the City of Zaragoza, Spain and we’ve had a great time at the GNOME Marketing Hackfest this week.
The focus have been on the upcoming GNOME 3 release this September and I’ve spent most of the time coming up with materials that GNOME fans across the world can use at conferences and LUG’s when spreading the word about the upcoming release.

One thing we want to do in the following weeks is to put together a website with videos showing the new great things such as the new user experience that the shell is offering and other cool stuff as collaboration features with gedit and Tomboy Online among other things. We also want some basic info about the release with a quick FAQ etc.
In it’s initial state, the website will just show a few videos, but will expand as people put together more videos with their favorite things about GNOME 3.

I’ve put together some mockups of how it could look, and if you’re a web developer with skills to put together things such as microblog feeds, photo feeds etc. and want to help with this, please let me know. Any help with this from people who know what they are doing is highly appreciated.

For more mockups and details, see the wiki page.

Many thanks for our sponsors this weeks: Zaragoza Municipality, Aragon Regional Government, Technological Institute of Aragon (ITA), ASOLIF, CESLA and the GNOME Foundation of course!

[disclaimer, today the Internet sucks, but I'm going to pretend it's not April 1st, because I wanted this blog post out today, so sorry, no pranks in this post]

GNOME 2.30 was released yesterday. Lots of neat stuff in this release such as neater looking games (thanks to Clutter), support for Iphones (without any need for jailbreaking), better Tomboy notes sync, easier to set up Facebook chat in Empathy etc.

With the 2.30 release, we’re also opening the GNOME Store, where you can get yourself GNOME t-shirts and other gear. Been working on and off on this for quite a while now, so it’s nice to officially declare it as done!
The store currently sports 7 t-shirts and two mugs, but we’re gradually going to expand it and are looking for more sweet designs.

To celebrate the 2.30 release, we’re going to have some beers tonight at Gnutiken in Gothenburg around 18.00. Be there!