ROSEdu [1] aduce programatorilor pasionați un Curs de Dezvoltare Liberă (CDL) [2]. Proiectul se va desfășura pe o perioadă de 6 săptămâni, în weekend, în Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare (EG106). Cursurile și laboratorele CDL vor învăța studenții cum să dezvolte un software...

When I read that the Liferea hackers were considering doing a rewrite, I jumped at the opportunity to throw together a prototype. I had been dabbling with this in python for the last year or so anyway, solving interesting problems with storing lots of data while keeping memory usage light. I also wa...

After GUADEC, I've seen a few reactions about GTK+ future (GTK+ 3.0) and after reading a few posts I decided to write about it. Here I leave my grain of sand in this topic. I've seen two main points of view about what should be GTK+ next major release. In one hand we have the community proposal: bra...

It is my immense pleasure to announce the first preview release of the next generation of Banshee. This Banshee 1.0 Alpha 1 release is a culmination of so much work by so many awesome contributors. Now, first things first. This is going to be a long post, so let me link to the crucial bits first for...

Surprisingly, Nokia’s acquisition of Trolltech has elicited the least inbound inquiry of all the recent open source M&A activity. The MySQL deal triggered more or less a complete meltdown, and even the smaller Covalent acquisition got the phones and IM channels ringing. As an aside on the...