Thomas Vander Stichele: 2 months in
Today is my two month monthiversary at my new job. Haven’t had time so far to sit back and reflect and let people know, but now during packing boxes for our upcoming move downtown, I welcome the...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Time has come to support some important projects!
If you read this blog entry it is very likely that you are a direct beneficiary of open source and free software. Like myself you probably have been able to get hold of, use and tinker with software...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Planning for Fedora Workstation 22
So Fedora Workstation 21 is done and out and I am extremely pleased to see the positive reception and great reviews. But we are not resting on our laurels here and are already busy planning for the...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Want to join our innovative development team doing cool...
So Red Hat are currently looking to hire into the various teams building and supporting efforts such as the Fedora Workstation, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation and of course Fedora and RHEL in...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Thanks for all the applications
Jobs at Red Hat So I got a LOT of responses to my blog post about the open positions we have here at Red Hat working on Fedora and the Desktop. In fact I got so many it will probably take a bit of time...
View ArticleArun Raghavan: Reviewing moved files with git
This might be a well-known trick already, but just in case it’s not…Reviewing a patch can be a bit painful when a file that has been changed and moved or renamed at one go (and there can be perfectly...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: 2014 in review
I haven’t blogged much in recent months, so this will be a pretty short and boring post, it’s meant as a pulse check anyway. All in all, 2014 has been a pretty intense year:Started my own company...
View ArticleChristian Schaller: Reliable BIOS updates in Fedora
Some years ago I bought myself a new laptop, deleted the windows partition and installed Fedora on the system. Only to later realize that the system had a bug that required a BIOS update to fix and...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: Another fake flash story
I recently purchased a 64GB mini SD card to slot in to my laptop and/or tablet, keeping media separate from my home directory pretty full of kernel sources.This Samsung card looked fast enough, and at...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: "GNOME à 15 ans" aux JdLL de Lyon
Le week-end prochain, je vais faire une petite présentation sur les quinze ans de GNOME aux JdLL.Si les dieux de la livraison sont cléments, GNOME devrait aussi avoir une présence dans le village...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: GNOME 3.16 is out!
Did you see?It will obviously be in Fedora 22 Beta very shortly.What happened since 3.14? Quite a bit, and a number of unfinished projects will hopefully come to fruition in the coming months.Hardware...
View ArticleSebastian Pölsterl: MPI-based Nested Cross-Validation for scikit-learn
If you are working with machine learning, at some point you have to choose hyper-parameters for your model of choice and do cross-validation to estimate how well the model generalizes to unseen data....
View ArticleBastien Nocera: JdLL 2015
Presentation and conferencingLast week-end, in the Salle des Rancy in Lyon, GNOME folks (Fred Peters, Mathieu Bridon and myself) set up our booth at the top of the stairs, the space graciously offered...
View ArticleGStreamer: Outreachy Internship Opportunity
GStreamer has secured a spot in the May-August round of Outreachy (former OPW). The program aims to help people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software getting involved by...
View ArticleJan Schmidt: New gst-rpicamsrc features
I’ve pushed some new changes to my Raspberry Pi camera GStreamer wrapper, at https://github.com/thaytan/gst-rpicamsrc/These bring the GStreamer element up to date with new features added to raspivid...
View ArticleJean-François Fortin Tam: President’s Report — The State of the GNOME Foundation
As I hinted in my retrospective in February, 2014 has been crazy busy on a personal level. Let’s now take a look at 2014-2015 from a GNOME perspective.When I offered my candidacy for the GNOME...
View ArticleSebastian Dröge: PTP network clock support in GStreamer
In the last days I was working at Centricular on adding PTP clock support to GStreamer. This is now mostly done, and the results of this work are public but not yet merged into the GStreamer code base....
View ArticleArun Raghavan: GNOME Asia 2015
I was in Depok, Indonesia last week to speak at GNOME Asia 2015. It was a great experience — the organisers did a fantastic job and as a bonus, the venue was incredibly pretty!View from our roomMy talk...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: iio-sensor-proxy 1.0 is out!
Modern (and some less modern) laptops and tablets have a lot of builtin sensors: accelerometer for screen positioning, ambient light sensors to adjust the screen brightness, compass for navigation,...
View ArticleSebastian Pölsterl: Using IPython for parallel computing on an MPI cluster...
I assume that you already familiar with using IPython.parallel, otherwise have a look at the documentation. Just one point of caution, if you move code that you want to run in parallel to a package or...
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