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<h1>GNOME Foundation News</h1>
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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>
<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>
<li>
<strong>Google and Motorola join the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board</strong>
<small>(2008-11-03)</small>
<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>
</li>
<li>
<strong>GUADEC and Akademy to be co-located in Gran Canaria in 2009</strong>
<small>(2008-07-13)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their
yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The
conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the
same organizers.
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html">Read
more</a>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<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>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<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>
</li>
<li>
<strong>3rd GNOME Mobile Summit to be held in Austin</strong>
<small>(06/04/2008)</small>
<blockquote>
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
computing. <a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-04-mobilesummit.html">Read
more</a>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2007 released</strong>
<small>(10/03/2008)</small>
<blockquote>
The second annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for
<a href="../about/gnome_annual_report_2007.pdf">download (1860 KB, PDF)</a> now.<br/>
The report aims to bring a summary of GNOME community activities in 2007.
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>
<li>
<strong>GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces</strong>
<small>(04/03/2008)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation will increase their
collaboration to improve developer support and user experience. As
part of this partnership, the Mozilla Foundation joins the GNOME
Foundation advisory board and announces a grant of $10,000 to be
spent on the improvement of accessibility.<br/>
Read the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-03-mofojoins.html">announcement</a>
for more information.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>GUADEC 2008 to be held in Istanbul</strong>
<small>(28/02/2008)</small>
<blockquote>
The ninth GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, will be held in
Istanbul, Turkey from the 7th to the 12th of July 2008. The
conference will bring together the GNOME development and user
community and key personalities from businesses and governments, to
discuss the future direction of the GNOME project. Read the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/guadec2008.html">press
release</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects</strong>
<small>(27/02/2008)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program,
offering USD$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will
promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as
well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME
accessibility offering. Read the full <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html">announcement</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<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>
<li>
<strong>Fall 2007 Board of Directors election period begins</strong>
<small>(03/11/2007)</small>
<blockquote>
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>
</li>
<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>
<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>
<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
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/canonicaljoins.html">announcement</a>
for more information.
</blockquote>
</li>
<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>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Intel joins the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board</strong>
<small>(16/07/2006)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation is welcoming Intel as an Advisory Board member.
This is part of Intel's increasing commitment to GNOME and to the
free software desktop.<br />
See more information in the <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-June/msg00006.html">announce</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2007</strong>
<small>(19/03/2006)</small>
<blockquote>
Groups interested in hosting the next GUADEC in 2007 are invited to
write a formal invitation to the board of the GNOME Foundation.
<br />
The invitation should be send to the board and Anne Østergaard at the
latest on April 19th 2006. See all the details in <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-February/msg00016.html">this
mail</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Results of 2005 elections</strong>
<small>(03/01/2006)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased
to announce the official results for the 2005 GNOME Foundation
elections. The Foundation board directors for the 2005/2006 term of
office are:
<br /><br />
Jonathan Blandford, Federico Mena-Quintero, David Neary,
Anne Østergaard, Vincent Untz, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Results of the Reducing Board Size Referendum official</strong>
<small>(14/11/2005)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased
to announce that the results for the reducing board size referendum
are now official. There will be 7 slots to be filled in all future
GNOME Foundation elections, instead of 11 previously.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Preliminary results of the Reducing Board Size Referendum</strong>
<small>(07/11/2005)</small>
<blockquote>
The preliminary results of the reducing board size referendum have
been <a href="../vote/results.php?election_id=1">posted</a>.
You can <a href="../vote/votes.php?election_id=1">verify the
results</a> yourself.
Any challenges to these results must be received by November 13th.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>2005 GNOME Foundation Elections</strong>
<small>(04/11/2005)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation <a href="../elections/2005/">elections</a> will
begin this month. If you want to run for these elections, you have to
nominate yourself before November 14th. Take a look at the <a
href="../elections/2005/rules.html">rules and the timeline</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Reducing Board Size Referendum</strong>
<small>(20/10/2005)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation will hold a <a
href="../referenda/2005-10/">referendum</a> about reducing the board
size. Take a look at the <a
href="../referenda/2005-10/rules.html">rules and the timeline</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Results of 2004 elections official</strong>
<small>(21/12/2004)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased
to announce that the results for the 2004 GNOME Foundation elections
are now official. The Foundation board directors for the 2004/2005
term of office are:
<br /><br />
Jonathan Blandford, Murray Cumming, Jody Goldberg, Miguel de Icaza,
Federico Mena-Quintero, David Neary, Tim Ney, Christian Schaller,
Owen Taylor, Daniel Veillard, Luis Villa.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Preliminary results of 2004 elections announced</strong>
<small>(08/12/2004)</small>
<blockquote>
The preliminary results of the elections have been <a
href="elections/2004/preliminary-results.html">posted</a>.
You can <a href="elections/2004/verify.html">verify the results</a>
yourself.
Any challenges to these results must be received by December 20th.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>2004 GNOME Foundation Elections</strong>
<small>(24/10/2004)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation <a href="../elections/2004/">elections</a> will
begin in November. If you want to run for these elections, you have to
nominate yourself before November 8th. Take a look at the <a
href="../elections/2004/rules.html">rules and the timeline</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Results of the Anonymous Voting Referendum official</strong>
<small>(24/10/2004)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased
to announce that the results for the anonymous voting referendum
are now official. All future GNOME Foundation elections and referenda
will use an anonymous voting process.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Preliminary results of the Anonymous Voting Referendum</strong>
<small>(11/10/2004)</small>
<blockquote>
The preliminary results of the anonymous voting referendum have been
<a href="../referenda/2004-10/preliminary-results.html">posted</a>.
You can <a href="../referenda/2004-10/verify.html">verify the results</a>
yourself.
Any challenges to these results must be received by October 22nd.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Anonymous Voting Referendum</strong>
<small>(14/09/2004)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation will hold a <a
href="../referenda/2004-10/">referendum</a> about anonymous voting
in a few weeks. Take a look at the <a
href="../referenda/2004-10/rules.html">rules and the timeline</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Results of 2003 elections official</strong>
<small>(20/12/2003)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased
to announce that the results for the 2003 GNOME Foundation elections
are now official. The Foundation board directors for the 2003/2004
term of office are:
<br /><br />
Jonathan Blandford, Dave Camp, Glynn Foster, Nat Friedman, Jody
Goldberg, Bill Haneman, Leslie Proctor, Owen Taylor, Malcolm
Tredinnick, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Preliminary results of 2003 elections announced</strong>
<small>(11/12/2003)</small>
<blockquote>
The preliminary results of the elections have been <a
href="elections/2003/preliminary-results.html">posted</a>.
You can <a href="elections/2003/verify.html">verify the results</a>
yourself.
Any challenges to these results must be received by December 19th.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>GUADEC 2004 slated for Norway</strong>
<small>(04/11/2003)</small>
<blockquote>
The fifth annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference
(GUADEC) will draw businesses, government, education and end users to
Kristiansand, Norway June 28-30, 2004. See <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/guadec5.html">press
release</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>2003 GNOME Foundation Elections</strong>
<small>(22/10/2003)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation <a href="../elections/2003/">elections</a> will
begin in November. If you want to run for these elections, you have to
nominate yourself before November 7th. Take a look at the <a
href="../elections/2003/rules.html">rules and the timeline</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>GUADEC 2003 to attract global audience of GNOME developers and
enthusiasts</strong>
<small>(18/02/2003)</small>
<blockquote>
Free software luminaries, open source developers gather to advance the
next generation of the multi-platform desktop environment in June,
Dublin Ireland.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>GNOME Foundation and Bitstream Inc. announce long-term
agreement to bring high quality fonts to Free Software</strong>
<small>(12/21/2002)</small>
<blockquote>
Ten fonts will be released for use under a special open license
agreement, giving advanced font capabilities to all free and open
source software developers and users.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Results of 2002 elections official</strong>
<small>(12/21/2002)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased
to announce that the results for the 2002 GNOME Foundation elections
are now official. The Foundation board directors for the 2002/2003
term of office are:
<br /><br />
Jonathan Blandford, Miguel de Icaza, Glynn Foster, Nat Friedman,
Jim Gettys, Jody Goldberg, Bill Haneman, James Henstridge, Daniel
Veillard, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>2002 GNOME Foundation Elections</strong>
<small>(11/20/2002)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation <a href="../elections/2002/">elections</a> have
begun. There are 23 <a
href="../elections/2002/candidates.html">candidates</a> running for
these elections.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Foundation By-laws Posted</strong>
<small>(09/24/2002)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation <a href="../about/bylaws.pdf">by-laws</a> have
now been posted in PDF format.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Foundation Membership Renewal Exercise</strong>
<small>(08/31/2002)</small>
<blockquote>
We are currently working to renew all old-style GNOME Foundation
memberships under the new rules, available <a
href="../membership/">here</a>. Affected members will receive mail
today explaining what they need to do.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Friends of GNOME Fundraising Program</strong>
<small>(07/17/2002)</small>
<blockquote>
The Friends of GNOME program has been launched to help raise funds
for development, education and promotion for GNOME worldwide. The
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/summit/">GNOME Summit</a> is one
event which is supported through the generosity of this program.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Results of 2001 election official</strong>
<small>(12/07/2001)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee are pleased
to announce the following members as official Foundation board
directors for the 2001/2002 term of office:
<br /> <br />
Jonathan Blandford, Miguel de Icaza, Nat Friedman, Jim Gettys, Jody
Goldberg, Telsa Gwynne, James Henstridge, George Lebl, Federico
Mena-Quintero, Havoc Pennington and Daniel Veillard.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Preliminary results of 2001 election announced</strong>
<small>(11/27/2001)</small>
<blockquote>
The preliminary results of the election have been <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00037.html">posted</a>.
Any challenges to these results must be received by December 4.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>2001 Final list of election Candidates Announced</strong>
<small>(11/10/2001)</small>
<blockquote>
All 2001 election candidates have been compiled into a <a
href="../elections/2001/candidates.html">Final List of
Candidates</a>. Voting begins on the 20th November and finishes on
the 27th November.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>2001 Election Schedule Announced</strong>
<small>(10/22/2001)</small>
<blockquote>
The 2001 elections for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors has
been <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-October/msg00050.html">announced</a>.<br />
The announcement includes the timeline and details for who is
eligible for nomination and to vote.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Tim Ney Joins GNOME Foundation as Executive Director</strong>
<small>(08/22/2001)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that Tim Ney is
joining the GNOME Foundation as its executive director. For more
information, see the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ney_execdir.html">press
release</a> and the <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-August/msg00027.html">announcement</a>
sent by Havoc Pennington.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>New Membership Policy Adopted</strong>
<small>(07/12/2001)</small>
<blockquote>
A new <a href="../membership/">membership qualification policy</a>
has been adopted and the GNOME Foundation Membership has been
re-opened to new members. If you would like to become a member,
please <a href="../membership/application.php">apply here</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Board Meeting Minutes</strong>
<small>(biweekly)</small>
<blockquote>
Minutes from the most recent board meeting can always be found in
the <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/">foundation-announce
mailing list archives</a>.
</blockquote>
</li>
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