On October 12, 2013, we had the pleasure to host the annual Gnome Summit in Montreal and, in the evening, we organized a community meet-up in our offices. Gnome core developers and local hackers met, had food, a couple of drinks and quite a lot fun together. The event was supposed to end around 9:00 PM but, finally, it lasted beyond 11:00 PM. 🙂
During the meet-up Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation, kindly answered our questions about the Gnome Summit and the state of Open Source in the world. In this interview she explains why the annual “Boston” Summit now takes place every second year in Montreal, and briefly presents the main technical issues that were on the agenda during the weekend — especially desktop accessibility. Finally, she shares her thoughts on the state of Open Source in the world and how much work still has to be done to live in a better digital world.
The Montreal Gnome Summit 2013 was sponsored by the FQCIL (Quebec Free Software Community and Industry Federation) and Savoir-faire Linux. You can read more in our previous post.
Las Vegas, January 9, 2019 – Exhibiting at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Savoir-faire Linux, a Quebec-based consulting firm for more than 20 years and an expert in the free software industry in Canada, launches Jami, the universal and autonomous communication application. Aimed at the general public as […]
Push Notifications: A New Feature Added to Ring Project Push notifications are essential part of the effective end-user experience on mobile platforms. They tend to boost the app engagement and users find them useful and handy as they ease their communications. Although push notifications are widely considered an advantage for most apps, they are regarded […]
On February 3rd and 4th, two members of Ring’s development team took part in FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting), a major event for free software developers, is held annually since 2000 during the first week-end of February at the UniversitĂ© libre de Bruxelles. SĂ©bastien Blin, a Ring […]
Ring keeps surprising communication experts and enthusiasts! Ring is now available on Android TV box and other smart TVs. Ring has become the only communication software available on the Google Play Store for Android TVs, since the discontinuation of support for the TV version of Skype in June 2016. This new release is quite different […]
July 21, 2017 – Savoir-faire Linux releases the stable version of Ring: Ring 1.0 – LibertĂ©, ÉgalitĂ©, FraternitĂ©. Ring is a free/libre and universal communication platform that preserves the users’ privacy and freedoms. It is a GNU package. It runs on multiple platforms; and, it can be used for texting, calls, and video chats more privately, more […]
