Up North

As of today we are happy to welcome two new Imendians. Christian Dywan is joining us from Bonn in Germany and Andreas Nilsson from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Christian is known for his Webkit/GTK+-based web browser Midori and Andreas for his artistic heroism, creating nice icons for GNOME.

A lot of cool stuff happened last year and one of my new year resolutions is to be better at blogging about them. At the end of November we went for a trip to Mexico for ImendioConf 2007 where we spent a week at Riu Cancun with lovely beaches, pools, drinks and of course great discussions.

Right after coming back from ImendioConf some of us went to Gothenburg where we participated as sponsors at FSF Europe’s conference FSCons. There were some quite interesting talks there and Martyn & Carlos held a double session about GTK+ application development.

Imendio will be sharing a booth with GNOME, GPE, G(PE)² and Tinymail at Linuxtag this year so make sure to come by for a chat.Sven, Tim and Mitch will be there from Imendio.Just find your way to booth 30, hall 12.

As short summary of what has been going on at Imendio lately.

• A few weeks ago a couple of Imendians met up in Hamburg and stayed at Tim’s apartment over the weekend. We had some very interesting discussions about canvases, GTK+ tasks that can be lifted of the core maintainers and bling effects for GTK+. Mirco Müller was there and showed some of the nifty features he was working on and Benjamin Otte gave a short presentation of how Flash works. And of course, Reperbahn, weird back street pub, Pudel Club and finally the Fish Market until 11.30 the following day.
• Tim has been working on improving the maintenance situation in the GTK+ project and as a result he sent out an email about ways for people to help out and getting involved. If you are interested in participating in the continued success of the project, read the email and see if there is anything you can do.
• Carlos sent out an email to get the discussion going on finding a canvas/new widget core for GTK+. I’m thrilled to see some movement in this area again and very much look forward to having this functionality in GTK+.
• We decided to sponsor Guadec for the third year in a row. Let’s make this one even better than the last!
• Last but definitely not least, GMAE was announced yesterday. Kudos to all involved and in particular Jeff for making this possible. This is an important step to spread GNOME (all of it, including the community) to the embedded/mobile market.

Press releases: Imendios and the official.