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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 GNU Project, and is Free Software (sometimes referred to as Open Source software).
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.
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.
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 earlier proposal was discussed on foundation-list in August, and this modified proposal is a result of legal advice to the Board, suggesting that we change the bylaws to provide flexibility in future.
The voting period will begin on 2007-09-28 and end on 2007-10-12.
Following its increasing involvement in GNOME, Igalia is joining the GNOME Foundation as an Advisory Board member.
See the announcement for more information.
The GNOME Foundation would like to warmly welcome Canonical Ltd. as an Advisory Board member. Canonical Ltd. is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.
See the announcement for more information.
The first annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for download (935 KB, PDF) now.
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.
More news is available here.
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