Gnome

Contest aimed toward students to participate and write code, documentation, research and quality assurance

Who doesn’t love a contest? We certainly do. Google believes strongly in students having opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math, and today at the Open Source Developers’ Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Google has announced the highly open participation contest to secondary school and high school students in open source software development.

Gnome, the desktop environment used by several Linux and open source platforms, has got an upgrade.

Gnome community has released version 2.20 of the open source desktop environment after six months of development.

Improvements in Gnome 2.20 include: Support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; and improved power management.