SCaLE 14x

We kicked off the year with a trip to the Southern California Linux Expo where we spent four days showing off the Loki alpha and talking to folks about elementary OS. Cassidy also had the opportunity to present his talk “What Is UX?”. It went by in a blur, but we were happy to meet new people, connect with some people we’d only met online so far, and answer tons of questions.

Our Website

This year saw a ton of changes to our website (and web team!), starting in April when we hired the very talented Blake Kostner. We’ve added several new pages to our website over the year including our Brand, Open Source, and Team pages. It’s also no secret that we were very excited to release the new version of our Store in August! Worth mentioning are the major changes that we’ve made to the Get Involved and Developer pages. In October we blogged about major under-the-hood changes to our web infrastructure including the move to full HTTPS across all of our web servers. Finally, in November we were proud to be the new hosts of Valadoc.org: the best source for Vala documentation on the web.

Snappy

We first dipped our toes into Snappy back in July when we attended the Snappy Sprint in Heidelberg, Germany. We were able to spend time with developers from across the Linux world, exploring concepts and learning more about the new containerized world of Snap packages. We connected with old friends and made new ones too. In October, we announced our membership in the Snap Format ToB, represented by Cody. In November, he had the pleasure of attending the next Snappy Sprint in Den Haag, Netherlands where the board championed AppStream and sought to make Snaps better available for more distributions.

Loki & Its Apps

In February, we followed up the sad news of Yorba’s disappearing with the news that we would be forking Geary and continuing its development as Pantheon Mail. We’re happy to say that since that time we’ve cleaned out thousands of lines of old code, fixed numerous issues, created an entirely new native message viewer with RTL language support, added initial online accounts integration support, and more!