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Richard Hughes has been tirelessly working on fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) to greatly improve firmware updating on Linux! He is asking for 5 minutes of your time to help with this effort. Please consider his request, if you are able

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2019/05/13/donating-5-minutes-of-your-time-to-help-the-lvfs/ …

Have you been interested in developing a GNOME Shell Extension, but were intimidated or lost with how to get started? Good news! We now have a thorough overview and guide for extension development and how to get started!
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions/Writing
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions

Because a few of you apparently missed the prior announcements, the Call for Proposals for #GUADEC 2019 has been extended for three more days until the 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗮𝘆. This is your very last chance to get your talk submission in! Do it asap! 😬

https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/04/guadec-2019-call-for-papers/

There is one final day to submit talk proposals for #GUADEC 2019! Submissions close tomorrow evening, so if you were waiting until the last minute...mission accomplished. Get it submitted asap!

https://2019.guadec.org/pages/submit-a-proposal.html

GNOME is pleased to work with @kde on Linux App Summit - let's build an application eco-system together! #Linuxapps #Linux https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/05/las-2019-call-for-locations/

Interested in GTK 4 development? Check out the latest blog entry from Matthias Clasen detailing what's new in GTK 3.96.0 (GTK 4 development branch). There's lots to be excited about! https://blog.gtk.org/2019/05/08/gtk-3-96-0/

REMINDER: The GUADEC 2019 call for proposals is happening now, and the deadline for submission is midnight (UTC+3) on May 13th. If you will be attending GUADEC in Greece this year and wish to give either a 25 or 40 min talk, get your proposal in asap! 😋 https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/04/guadec-2019-call-for-papers/

The Desktop Icons GNOME Shell extension just released a new version and also has a newly promoted co-maintainer! This is a very exciting project with a bright future, and all fans of having folders and icons on the desktop should be very excited 🙂

https://csoriano.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/csoriano-blog/post/2019-05-03-desktop-icons-maintainer/

Congrats to the @ubuntu team on their new 19.04 'Disco Dingo' release, sporting the latest and greatest GNOME software! If you've been chomping at the bit to try GNOME 3.32 on Ubuntu, now's your chance. Go grab it while it's hot!

https://www.ubuntu.com/download

We are at #fossnorth19 ! \o/ If you haven't checked our booth yet, you are still in time. We have some pretty awesome stickers and swag!

GNOME Newcomers Workshop in #fossnorth2019 during the Community Day! #freesoftwarevibes Thank you hiq.se t for having us!

Start contributing to GNOME at Community day in #FossNorth. Reserve your seat on the wiki and join us. For more details check the page: https://foss-north.se/2019/community-day.html