| Website | https://juliansparber.com |
| Blog | https://blogs.gnome.org/jsparber/ |
Reflection is now actually local-first, and almost the entire code base doesn't care whether you have network, or whether your device can't establish a connection to other devices via p2panda.
Still not merged nor fully polished but we are getting there :)
This Wednesday (September 10th, noon UTC), we're having a virtual meetup / awards ceremony for our Summer of GNOME OS competition!
We'll announce the winners of the Oneplus 6 and our exciting limited-edition shirts (thanks @ondrejkolin for helping with logistics), talk about how it went for everyone, and the future of GNOME OS more generally.
Join us here: https://meet.gnome.org/rooms/roy-7mn-1z3-7er/join
The October edition of #BoilingTheOcean is coming together nicely! We have a venue confirmed (@101lab thanks to @ben4climate!), @ondrejkolin is printing shirts (watch out for preorders soon!), and on Saturday we'll have a DJ set by @jimmac 🪩🌈
You can now sign up by adding your name, and propose sessions and lightning talks here: https://pad.gnome.org/1EIXiLe8Ri2St_ayB8uRHg
On the spring 2024 I presented my candidature, and eventually got elected for the Board of Directors at the GNOME Foundation. Directors are elected democratically by the GNOME Foundation members, and positions are usually up for election every 2 years. However, when I started my term there was one position open for a single year...
Yes, #GUADEC2025 is over. We want to thanks all the in person and remote attendees, the volunteers, the staff and all those made this edition possible! 👏
The initial report is:
- 450 espresso coffee
- ~5kg of sweet pastries
- ~5kg of savory pastries
Looking forward to see you again next year!
P.S. photo album will be published as soon as possible on Flickr
Fuck yeah, the very annoying issue that screenshot notifications were not grouped in GNOME Shell is now fixed 🙌
Huge kudos to @jsparber and @fmuellner!
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3210
New blog post about our local-first GNOME app initiative! Project Aardvark is growing up into a real app, called Reflection 🪩✨
Over the coming months we have a @PrototypeFund grant to expand the app into a proper local-first Hedgedoc replacement, with multi-cursor, sharing URLs, undo, permissions, and more.
Hopefully the first of many GTK+p2panda apps to come, especially once we add GObject bindings making this stack accessible to non-Rust apps :)
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/30/aardvark-summer-2025-update
Yesterday the "Reflection" project started officially as part of the new @PrototypeFund round! 🌟🌈
The team consists of @p2panda and people from the GNOME gang around @tbernard and @jsparber.
We gonna release "Reflection" (formerly Aardvark) - a GTK-based, collaborative, local-first text editor! Aaaand:
All of this is part of a larger effort to explore p2p code, UX patterns, reusable UI components, debugging tools, organize events and document our learnings.
Tobias Bernard
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