The GNOME Foundation gets a new director

The GNOME Foundation’s long search for a new executive director has finally come to an end: Neil McGovern has taken the job. ” McGovern is an experienced leader in Free Software projects and is best known for his role as Debian Project Leader from 2014-15.

Sumana Harihareswara’s keynote will close LibrePlanet 2017

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA – Wednesday, January 25, 2017 – The Free Software Foundation announced today that Sumana Harihareswara will be a keynote speaker at LibrePlanet, the annual free software conference, on Sunday, March 26th, 2017. The annual free software conference will close on the evening of March 26th with Harihareswara discussing her experiences within free software and the things she has learned over the years, in a talk tentatively titled “Lessons, Myths, and Lenses: What I Wish I’d Known in 1998.”

Seahorse

Currently it supports PGP keys and SSH keys. Its goal is to provide an easy to use Key Management Tool, along with an easy to use interface for encryption operations.

Clearlooks

Clearlooks has been part of gtk-engines for a while now, and is no longer distributed as a seperate release. Clearlooks is a GTK+ 2.x engine written in C that transforms your GNOME/XFCE desktop into a modern looking environment. It is fast and easy on the eyes.