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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
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>
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<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report Q4 2010 released</strong>
<small>(23/03/2011)</small>
<blockquote>
The fourth quarter of 2010 saw the GNOME Foundation launch the Women's
Outreach Program. Seven women were selected as interns working on a number of
different GNOME projects. Work continued towards GNOME 3.0 and the GNOME
Foundation welcomed eleven new members. <a
href="../reports/gnome-report-2010-Q4.html">Read about all this and
more!</a>
</blockquote>
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<li>
<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report Q3 2010 released</strong>
<small>(7/01/2011)</small>
<blockquote>
GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, was held in the third quarter of
2010 and many teams had a chance to get to gether face to face.
The GNOME Foundation hired a system adminsitrator, the GNOME.Asia
conference in August was a success, and progress was made on GNOME 3.0.
<a href="../reports/gnome-report-2010-Q3.html">Read about all this and
more!</a>
</blockquote>
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<li>
<strong>GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2009 released</strong>
<small>(13/12/2010)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Foundation's fourth annual report is available for
<a href="../reports/gnome-annual-report-2009.pdf">download (30 MB, PDF)
</a> now.<br/> The annual report is a summary of GNOME community
activities in 2009. It includes a review of the year, accounts of
various community activities and events around the world, an interview
with the GNOME Release team, and GNOME Foundation development
actions during the year.
</blockquote>
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<li>
<strong>GNOME Project Receives $15,000 for Accessibility Work</strong>
<small>(28/10/2010)</small>
<blockquote>
The GNOME Project has received two grants for a total of $15,000 from
Mozilla and from the F123.org-Mais Diferenças partnership for
accessibility work. Read the <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2010-10-accessibility-grant.html">press
release</a>.
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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>
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
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<a href="http://www.canonical.com/"><img src="img/logos/canonical.png" alt="Canonical" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.collabora.co.uk/"><img src="img/logos/collabora.png" alt="Collabora" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.debian.org/"><img src="img/logos/debian.png" alt="Debian" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<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>
<a href="http://www.google.com/"><img src="img/logos/google.png" alt="Google" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/"><img src="img/logos/ibm.png" alt="IBM" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.igalia.com/"><img src="img/logos/igalia.png" alt="Igalia" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.intel.com/"><img src="img/logos/intel.png" alt="Intel" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.motorola.com/"><img src="img/logos/motorola.png" alt="Motorola" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<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>
<a href="http://www.nokia.com/"><img src="img/logos/nokia.gif" alt="Nokia" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.suse.com/"><img src="img/logos/suse.png" alt="SUSE" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.laptop.org/"><img src="img/logos/olpc.gif" alt="OLPC" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.oracle.com/"><img src="img/logos/oracle.jpg" alt="Oracle" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="img/logos/redhat.png" alt="Red Hat" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
<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>
<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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