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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 Q2 2010 released</strong>
<small>(10/09/2010)</small>
<blockquote>
The second quarter of 2010 was a big one for the GNOME Foundation. We
elected our new GNOME Board of Directors, raised enough money to hire
a system administrator and held numerous successful events while
planning for GUADEC, our annual get together! <a
href="../reports/gnome-report-2010-Q2.html">Read about all this and
more!</a>
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<strong>Collabora Joins the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board</strong>
<small>(05/05/2010)</small>
<blockquote>
Collabora is joining the GNOME Foundation advisory board today. A
long time supporter of GNOME and member of the GNOME community,
Collabora contributes directly to GNOME projects like Empathy,
PiTiVi, Totem and Epiphany. Read the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-05-collabora-joins.html">press
release</a>.
</blockquote>
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<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report Q1 2010 released</strong>
<small>(23/04/2010)</small>
<blockquote>
Big happenings in Q1! The GNOME Foundation raised enough money to
hire a system administrator! We have several new board members. The
accessibility team is looking for a new team lead. GNOME 2.30 - the
last GNOME 2 release - went out. We are planning our first official
GNOME training for GUADEC. There were several amazing hackfests in
areas like usability and accessibility with more being planned. <a
href="../reports/gnome-report-2010-Q1.pdf">Read about all this and
more!</a> (<a href="../reports/gnome-report-2010-Q1.html">HTML
version</a>)
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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="Canonical" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.collabora.co.uk/"><img src="img/logos/collabora.png" alt="Collabora" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/"><img src="img/logos/debian.png" 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.limofoundation.org/"><img src="img/logos/limo.png" alt="LiMo Foundation" 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.oracle.com/"><img src="img/logos/oracle.jpg" alt="Oracle" 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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<p>
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Pro bono legal services provided by <a href="http://www.wsgr.com/">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati</a> and the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law Center</a>.
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