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<h1>The GNOME Foundation</h1>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>
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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<p>
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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<p>
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>
<ul>
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<li>
<strong>Fall 2007 Board of Directors election official results announced</strong>
<small>(25/12/2007)</small>
<blockquote>
Yearly election for Board of Directors of GNOME Foundation ended. There were no challenges to <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2007-December/msg00000.html">preliminary results</a> and <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2007-December/msg00002.html">new board members</a> were announced. Elected board will serve for a period of 18 months.</blockquote>
</li>
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<li>
<strong>Fall 2007 Board of Directors election period begins</strong>
<small>(03/11/2007)</small>
<blockquote>
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Yearly election for Board of Directors of GNOME Foundation has begun. <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2007-November/msg00000.html">Announcement</a> from Elections & Membership Committee was sent to foundation-announce mailing list. Time line and information about the election can be viewed from announcement mail.</blockquote>
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<li>
<strong>Notification of membership vote regarding change to bylaws</strong>
<small>(07/09/2007)</small>
<blockquote>The Board is proposing a change to the GNOME Foundation
bylaws to allow the directors to determine the length of the next
Board term when elections are called. An <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-August/msg00025.html">earlier
proposal</a> was discussed on foundation-list in August, and this <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-September/msg00017.html">modified
proposal</a> is a result of legal advice to the Board, suggesting
that we change the bylaws to provide flexibility in
future.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The voting period will begin on 2007-09-28 and end on
2007-10-12.</blockquote>
</li>
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<li>
<strong>Igalia joins the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board</strong>
<small>(14/06/2007)</small>
<blockquote>
Following its increasing involvement in GNOME, Igalia is joining the
GNOME Foundation as an Advisory Board member.<br/>
See the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/igaliajoins.html">announcement</a>
for more information.
</blockquote>
</li>
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<li>
<strong>Canonical joins the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board</strong>
<small>(17/04/2007)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation would like to warmly welcome Canonical Ltd. as
an Advisory Board member. Canonical Ltd. is the commercial sponsor
of Ubuntu.<br/>
See the <a
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href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/canonicaljoins.html">announcement</a>
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for more information.
</blockquote>
</li>
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<li>
<strong>GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2006 released</strong>
<small>(16/03/2007)</small>
<blockquote>
The first annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for
<a href="about/gnome_annual_report_2006.pdf">download (935 KB, PDF)</a> now.<br/>
The report includes a review of the year, accounts of
various community initiaves we have supported during the year, the
events we have been involved with, and the avenues of development
that we have been exploring for the foundation.
</blockquote>
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</ul>
<p>More news is available <a href="news/">here</a>.</p>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
<div class="center">
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<a href="http://www.access-company.com/"><img src="img/logos/access.gif" alt="ACCESS" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
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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.hp.com/"><img src="img/logos/hp.gif" alt="Hewlett Packard" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/"><img src="img/logos/ibm.gif" 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.imendio.com/"><img src="img/logos/imendio.png" alt="Imendio" 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.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.o-hand.com/"><img src="img/logos/openedhand.png" alt="OpenedHand" 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://www.sun.com/"><img src="img/logos/sun.gif" alt="Sun Microsystems" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<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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