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We are proud to be one of the sponsors of the GTK Hackfest in Berlin. Whether it’s planning the vision and future of GTK (more info), the Windows backend (X2) , Cairo and fonts, gtk# and WebKit, or general discussion, it’s great to see such attention paid to one of the cornerstones of the GNOME [...]

Poky, our GNOME Mobile focused platform build tool, has been receiving much love and attention with OH towers of late, which has lead to the lovely new Beaver powered Poky website which coincides with the latest 3.1 ‘Pinky’ release of Poky platform builder. As always there are plenty of new features in the new release, but [...]

Just a quick note to point out the 0.6.0 release of Clutter. There is tons of juicy technical stuff in the release notes but some highlights include an new improved event handling system, scriptable interface definitions, and more GL features made nice in the shape of initial support for FBO’s and an abstraction of GL [...]

The new year has only just started and it seems already OpenedHand folks have a pretty strong schedule of conference appearances across the globe. Currently the outlook is; Linux Conf Austrailia, 28th Jan - 2nd Feb Rob Bradford will be talking about ... [More] Anjuta and Clutter Done! - videos of talks: here and here. FOSDEM, Brussels, 23rd - 24th February Emmanuele [...] [Less]

Our Q&A page is now Live. Its basically a posh FAQ containing answers to common questions we get asked about OpenedHand and what we do.

CES, the largest consumer electronics show in the world, held every year in Las Vegas, has just wrapped up. Sadly I’m wasn’t there, but luckily Doc Searls has been at CES keeping track of Linux and Open Source stuff at the show. As usual there are more Linux based devices that you’d realise or that [...]

Its customary at OpenedHand that around the festive season we take some time away from the keyboards, get all the team togeather and spend some time indulging in activities that dont involve coding. This year we spent a day putting 5000 pieces of Lego togeather: …and the next shooting arrows, clay pigeons and driving 4×4’s and quad [...]

Tim O’Reilly has repeated (the very repeatable) quote from Dave Stutz, “Useful software written above the level of the single device will command high margins for a long time to come” This line came at the end of Dave’s parting letter to Microsoft, after he resigned to become a winemaker. I’ve always loved the quote and [...]

Havoc Pennington has a great post, Linux for Consumers, pointing out that it’s non-desktop devices that have the best chance of getting open source software, and in particular GNOME, into the average users hands; Nokia / Maemo Tablets, OpenMoko, OLPC ... [More] and more tenuously the Kindle, and Android (neither of which are fully open source, yet). “For [...] [Less]

Today at ELC, the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative was finally announced! “The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative advances the use, development and commercialization of GNOME components as a mobile and embedded user experience platform. It ... [More] brings together industry leaders, expert consultants, key developers and the community and industry organizations they represent. As an open [...] [Less]