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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 hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director</strong>
<small>(2008-07-07)</small>
<blockquote>
Bringing to an end a long search, the GNOME Foundation has hired
Stormy Peters, a well-known industry analyst with a long-standing
relationship with GNOME, as their Executive Director. The hire was
announced at GUADEC 2008, GNOME's flagship conference, in Istanbul.
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html">Read
more</a>
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<strong>KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation to co-host flagship conferences</strong>
<small>(2008-04-22)</small>
<blockquote>
The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to co-host
Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and GNOME projects
respectively, during the Summer of 2009.
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.html">Read
more</a>
</blockquote>
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<strong>3rd GNOME Mobile Summit to be held in Austin</strong>
<small>(06/04/2008)</small>
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The 3rd GNOME Mobile Summit being held as part of the Linux Foundation
Collaboration Summit in Austin from the 8th to the 10th of April will be
a forum where industry and community merge into one, enabling effective
collaboration on adapting the GNOME platform to the needs of mobile
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computing. <a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-04-mobilesummit.html">Read
more</a>
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<p>More news is available <a href="news/">here</a>.</p>
<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.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.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.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.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.png" alt="Sun Microsystems" 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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