Larry the cow is our prized mascot and he is not getting the respect he
deserves. Just about every other Linux distribution, their mascot is adorned on
t-shirts and other types of schwag, but not our Larry, he cannot even decide his
gender. Please help up fix this terrible injustice by entering our contest and
provide Larry the graphics he deserves. For more information visit this Forum Post.
The top 3 contestants will receive three t-shirts in their design, donated by
the Gentoo Foundation. The judging panel includes...
Greetings! Today we have an excellent interview of two fine gentlemen, Mr. David
Gallo and Mr. Cassius Adams from SevenL
Networks Inc., conducted by our very own
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For those of you that have been around awhile, you will recognize the company
represented in this interview. SevenL Networks Inc. has been an infrastructure
sponsor for over six years now. David and Cassius took some time to fill us in
on their use of Gentoo throughout their extensive operations. We hope you
enjoy reading the complete interview which you will find here.
FrOSCon 5 is almost here, and
Gentoo will be there!
Free Software and Open Source ? these are the topics of FrOSCon. Many exciting
programs with talks, workshops and an exhibition, supported by LUUSA and
FrOSCon e.V. The Saturday night social event gives you the opportunity to
exchange opinions with other visitors, speakers or volunteers.
Whether you're a developer, user, or simply curious, be sure and stop by our
Gentoo booth. We will have Gentoo and Larry t-shirts, plus...
LinuxTag 2010 runs
from June 9th to June 12th in Berlin, Germany. With more than 10,000 visitors last
year, it is one of the biggest Linux and open source events in Europe.
You will find the Gentoo booth at Hall 7.2a, Booth 203a. Come and visit
us! You will meet many of our developers and users, talk with us, plus get some
of the Gentoo merchandise you have always wanted.
Gentoo Users, Developers, and Staffers are encouraged to submit their sweetest
screenshots. Please head over to the 2010 Contest Page for all
of the details.
You can visit this forum post for
comments and suggestions. OK enough talk, get started tricking out that desktop.
On June 26th we again invite you to take part in this year's bike ride: "Gentoo
White Nights in
Russia". Gentoo White Nights is a nighttime bike ride along the most
beautiful city in the world - St. Petersburg - in the most magical time - the
White Nights.
As last year's experience showed, it's possible to ride in the rain, so the
event will take place regardless of weather. The event will take place during
the night from 26th to 27th June this year. The starting point is the Moskovsky
railway station at 10:00 PM. If you'd like to join the Gentoo White Nights,
contact Andrey...
And that means? We are looking for help from the Gentoo Community to help us in
Accounting/Finance. We are in the process towards the goal of tax-exempt status
with the United States Internal Revenue Service as a non-profit corporation. If
this is your background, we could really use your help.
Please contact
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or visit Gentoo Foundation for
details.
Today we have an interview with Andrzej
Wasylkowski, and since August 2005 he has been a PhD student at the
Software Engineering Chair at Saarland University, Saarbrucken,
Germany. His research field is software engineering, with strong focus on
program analysis techniques and their application to automatic defect detection.
One of the projects he is involved in is checkmycode, which is a service that
allows you to compare your code with the "wisdom of the crowds", over 200
million lines of C code from the Gentoo Linux distribution.
Gentoo has been accepted for its 5th consecutive year in the Google
Summer of Code! GSoC pays college students $5000 to work full-time on an
open-source project for a summer. Check out our GSoC
2010 homepage if you are interested in this year's GSoC for
Gentoo. We particularly encourage applications from students who aren't
already involved in Gentoo development?many of our students become
Gentoo developers after a successful summer.
Interested students can browse Gentoo's
project ideas. Student applications will be accepted starting
March 29.
Developers, if you'd like to apply to be a mentor, you can do so on...
