https://lwn.net/Articles/902463/
'While GUADEC, the GNOME community's annual conference, has always been held in
Europe (or online-only) since it began in 2000, this year's edition was held in
North America, specifically in Guadalajara, Mexico, July 20-25. Rob McQueen
gave a talk on the first day of the conference about providing solutions that
bring some level of digital safety and autonomy to users—and how GNOME can help
make that happen. McQueen is the CEO of the Endless OS Foundation, which is an
organization geared toward those goals; he was also recently reelected as the
president of the GNOME Foundation board of directors.
His talk was meant to introduce and describe an objective that the GNOME board
has been discussing and working on regarding the state of the internet today
and how GNOME can make that experience better for its users. The cloud-focused
computing environment that is prevalent today has a number of problems that
could be addressed by such an effort. That topic is related to what he does for
work, as well, since Endless OS is working on "bridging the digital divide" by
helping those who are not able to access all of the information that is
available on today's internet. Some of those efforts are aimed at bringing that
data to those who cannot, or perhaps choose not to, directly connect to the
internet itself—or only do so sporadically.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
