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<h1>The GNOME Foundation</h1>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
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The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use
desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application
development framework for software developers. GNOME is part of the <a
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href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU Project</a>, is <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</a>,
and developed as <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open
Source</a> software.
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The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project:
to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is
completely free software.
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To achieve this goal, the Foundation will coordinate releases of GNOME and
determine which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation will act as an
official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication
with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations
interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational
materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software.
In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and
represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create
technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of
GNOME software.
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<h2>News</h2>
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<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report Q4 2009 released</strong>
<small>(03/02/2010)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation would like to present the <a
href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q4.pdf">Q4 2009 Quarterly
report</a> (<a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q4.html">HTML
version</a>). Q4 is normally a quiet quarter — but not for
GNOME! During Q4 we had our annual GNOME Asia, GNOME Forum Brazil and
Boston Summit events as well as a record four hackfests! The
Marketing, Zeitgeist, Video and WebKitGTK+ teams all made good
progress on their goals during their hackfests. Next quarter we'll
continue the good work with hackfests planned in areas like usability
and accessibility. GNOME will also be represented at a number of
events like FOSDEM, SCALE, FOSS 2010 Workshop, Open Mobility, Libre
Planet and more! In addition to events, teams like the System
Administration team have made a lot of progress — they've installed
Piwik, Plone, Splinter, and CiviCRM to improve GNOME's infrastructure.
This quarter's update also includes an update from the GNOME Board of
Directors. <a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q4.pdf">Read on</a>
to hear all of the fabulous work that was done on GNOME in Q4 2009!
</blockquote>
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<strong>GUADEC 2010 to be held in The Hague, Netherlands</strong>
<small>(30/11/2009)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that GUADEC 2010 will be
held in The Hague, Netherlands July 24th-30th, 2010. The conference
is expected to draw more than 500 attendees to discuss and direct the
future of the GNOME Project. The Hague was one of several locations
proposed for GUADEC in 2010. It was chosen in part due to the
excellent facilities at the bid site, as well as easily accessible
site for those traveling to GUADEC. Read the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-11-guadec2010.html">press
release</a>.
</blockquote>
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<li>
<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report Q3 2009 released</strong>
<small>(30/10/2009)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation would like to present the <a
href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q3.pdf">Q3 2009 Quarterly
report</a> (<a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q3.html">HTML
version</a>). Q3 is always a big quarter for the GNOME Foundation and
this one was bigger and better than usual. During Q3 we had our
annual GUADEC, and GNOME 2.28 was released with lots of preparation
work for GNOME 3.0. OSiM Mobile was well attended by GNOME Mobile
member companies and products that use GNOME Mobile technologies like
Moblin 2.0 and the Nokia N900 were released. We've raised $23,415
through Friends of GNOME so far this year! Our Advisory Board members
have been very generous as well and we have many hackfests planned
for Q4! <a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q3.pdf">Read on</a> to
hear what GNOME teams have accomplished in Q3 and what they are
planning for Q4!
</blockquote>
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</ul>
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<p>You can also find more informal news at the <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/">Foundation Blog</a>, or read <a href="news/">previous news</a>.</p>
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<h2>Sponsors</h2>
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<a href="http://www.canonical.com/"><img src="img/logos/canonical.png" alt="Debian" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/"><img src="img/logos/debian.gif" alt="Debian" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.fsf.org/"><img src="img/logos/fsf.png" alt="Free Software Foundation" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/"><img src="img/logos/google.png" alt="Google" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.ibm.com/"><img src="img/logos/ibm.png" alt="IBM" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.igalia.com/"><img src="img/logos/igalia.png" alt="Igalia" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.intel.com/"><img src="img/logos/intel.png" alt="Intel" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.motorola.com/"><img src="img/logos/motorola.png" alt="Motorola" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/"><img src="img/logos/mozilla-foundation.png" alt="Mozilla Foundation" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.nokia.com/"><img src="img/logos/nokia.gif" alt="Nokia" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.novell.com/"><img src="img/logos/novell.gif" alt="Novell Inc." border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.laptop.org/"><img src="img/logos/olpc.gif" alt="OLPC" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="img/logos/redhat.png" alt="Red Hat" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/"><img src="img/logos/sflc.gif" alt="Software Freedom Law Center" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://sugarlabs.org/"><img src="img/logos/sugarlabs.png" alt="Sugar Labs" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.sun.com/"><img src="img/logos/sun.png" alt="Sun Microsystems" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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