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Meeting users, lots of users
Every year, I introduce Fedora to new students at Brno Technical University. There are approx. 500 of them and a sizable amount of them then installs Fedora. We also organize a sort of installfest one week after the presentation where anyone who has had any difficulties with Fedora can come and ask for help. It’s…
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Hello Planet GNOME!
My blog was recently added to Planet GNOME, so I’d like to introduce myself to the new audience: My name is Jiří Eischmann and I work as an engineering manager responsible for apps in Red Hat. Besides apps such as Firefox, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Chromium, Fedora Media Writer my team also contributes to many GNOME apps…
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We’re looking for a GNOME developer
We in the Red Hat desktop team are looking for a junior software developer who will work on GNOME. Particularly in printing and document viewing areas of the project. The location of the position is Brno, Czech Republic, where you’d join a truly international team of desktop developers. It’s a junior position, so candidates just…
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LibreOffice Conference 2016
LibreOffice Conference 2016 is over and for us organizers it’s a time to reflect. It was the third big open source desktop conference we’ve managed to get to Brno (after GUADEC 2013 and Akademy 2014). 3 days of talks, 150 attendees from all over the world, 4 social events. The conference went pretty well from…
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Flock & GUADEC 2016
The last two weeks were pretty busy for me because I travelled to two of my most favourite conferences – Flock and GUADEC. Flock was held in Krakow this year, so the traveling was a sort of easy for me. Krakow is just 350 km from Brno which is about 3.5 hours by car. The…
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LIBOCon: get around Brno
Yesterday I added Get around Brno page to the LibreOffice Conference website. There you can find comprehensive information about public transport in Brno, how to buy tickets, how to get to the hotel/venue if you arrive by train/bus/car/plane etc. All accompanied with maps and pictures of described places. So hopefully no one will get lost…
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Libocon 2016: travel info
LibreOffice Conference 2016 is less than two months away and people are starting to look for information how to get to and around Brno. We’ve prepared a page with extensive information how to get to Brno. Plane If you go by plane, the best option is flying directly to Brno. You can get very cheap…
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Telegram Desktop Client for Flatpak
Yet another app is packaged for Flatpak. Jan Grulich from our team has packaged the official desktop client for Telegram (EDIT: see his blogpost). And it was quite some task because the app is… well… wildly put together. Just see the build instructions provided by upstream. Flatpak manifests are usually fairly simple files, less complex…
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Fedora and Flock on Telegram
The Fedora community is growing on Telegram. The group chat which I originally created for Flock 2015 and which was later changed to become a general group chat for Fedora users has grown into the size of >300 people. We also started a Fedora News Channel as a sort of experiment because it’s increasingly difficult…
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Flatpak is gaining momentum
The Xdg App project has been renamed to Flatpak to get an easy-to-remember name and reflect that after almost two years of development it’s finally ready for broader adoption. It has also got a brand-new official website – Flatpak.org. Since then the project has gained momentum. Last week, LibreOffice for Flatpak was announced. This is…