GPE: The GPE Palmtop Environment

It took a little bit longer than expected, but now all important bits are in
place: GPE 2.7 is finished.

This is the first release of a new - more strictly defined -
type. Currently we maintain roadmap and release information in the
wiki page at http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GPERoadmap.

It's not intended to have a competely fixed roadmap there, but it
should orient itself on the current and future requirements. We spent
many hours in this release and the result is a large number of
application and library improvements and bugfixes, as well as improved
documentation.

Read more about details...

What is going on in GPE land?

The last news story about GPE is really old, but there are many things going on. Since September the 1st the feature list for the upcoming GPE release 2.7 is frozen - now it is time to fix some bugs!

The new release will include many bugfixes and improvements as well as our shiny new gpe-mini-browser based on GtkWebcore. A list of applications which will be included in the release and some more about our plans may be found in the GPE roadmap.

Apart from the release preparations we are working on new project documentation. The major share of the basic GPE libraries have API documentation now and we are working on a comprehensive GPE development manual. A list of maintainers for the single bits in GPE is kept here.

So just look forward to it...

Today there is a note about GPE under Free Software section in La Flecha, a web based Spanish newspaper about science and technology.

Read the full note here.

There will be a talk, from Ariel Rios (working at TI), about about developing with GPE in GUADEC-ES, the Spanish version of GUADEC (GNOME User and Developer European Conference).

It will be in the nice city of Coruña (North Spain), on 19th May (yes, StarWars EpIII viewing is being planned too). More details in the schedule.

The GPE project will be present on CeBit 2005 (in Hannover, Germany). We will have a small booth from 2005-03-10 to 2005-03-12.

The booth will be located inside the LinuxPark in hall 6 section H30-532.
We will show latest GPE on several different mobile devices and provide information about latest progress in GPE development and our plans for the future.

Everyone interested in GPE is invited to meet us there.

If someone is interested in helping at the booth or is able to help in a different way - please drop me a mail - any help is really appreciated.

GPE meeting at FOSDEM

Next weekend the FOSDEM developer conference will take place in Brussels. FOSDEM organisation team kindly offered a room for a GPE project meeting.
The meeting will be on Saturday the 26. at 16:30. The exact location will be announced at FOSDEM.

Everyone who is interested in GPE and GPE development or is just nosy what GPE is and how it looks like is welcome to join us there.

The GPE project presents its current state on various platforms at this year's Systems computer fair from 18th to 22nd of October at Munich, Germany.
The GPE demo point is part of an open source booth located in hall A2, booth number 534.

This is just a short reminder that LinuxTag will start on Wednesday this week!

LinuxTag is the biggest European Linux exposition and will be held in Karlsruhe (Germany) from the 23rd to the 26th of June (Wednesday to Saturday). The expo is accompanied by a conference and tutorial program - most of the sessions are free.

GPE will be present at the Gnome booth, showing latest developments and port of Linux/GPE to some new and interesting hardware platforms.
LinuxTag is always worth a trip! So come and join us!

For more information on LinuxTag please visit
http://www.linuxtag.org

The GPE project will be present at the upcoming LinuxTag expo and conference taking place from the 23rd until the 26th of June in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Together with the Gnome project we will present our state-of-the-art to the public.

There will also be a talk about the motivation and current state of GPE.

More details will be announced when available.

The GPE project will host a booth (or rather a demo point) from the 22nd until the 24th of March at this year´s CeBit computer fair in Hannover, Germany!
The GPE booth will be located in Hall 6, booth number B52/565 as part of this year´s so called "Linux-Park OpenBooth". The OpenBooth is intended for OpenSource projects and sponsored by several companies (Thank you!).