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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>Success of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit</strong>
<small>(05/08/2009)</small>
<blockquote>
This year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit represented the first time
the GNOME and KDE communities have co-located their annual
conferences in the same location. The summit accomplished its goal of
increasing co-operation between GNOME and KDE to improve the Free
Desktop experience. Read the <a
href="http://foundation.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-08-desktop-summit-conclusion.html">press
release</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
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<li>
<strong>GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2008 released</strong>
<small>(09/07/2009)</small>
<blockquote>
The third annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for
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<a href="./about/gnome_annual_report_2008.pdf">download (18680 KB, PDF)</a> now.<br/>
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The report aims to bring a summary of GNOME community activities in 2008.
It includes a review of the year, accounts of various community
activities and events around the world, and foundation development
actions during the year.
</blockquote>
</li>
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<li>
<strong>Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation</strong>
<small>(2008-12-22)</small>
<blockquote>
Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining
the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs
creates software for young children used on platforms like the One
Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and
relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html">Read
more</a>
</blockquote>
</li>
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<li>
<strong>Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009 to be held July 3-11, 2009</strong>
<small>(2008-11-25)</small>
<blockquote>
The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of
the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in
Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009.
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-11-25-grancanaria.html">Read
more</a>
</blockquote>
</li>
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<strong>Google and Motorola join the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board</strong>
<small>(2008-11-03)</small>
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<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation continues to strengthen its industry support,
with Google and Motorola joining the GNOME Foundation as Advisory
Board members.
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-10-motorola-google.html">Read
more</a>
</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.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>
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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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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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