GNOME Foundation News

• 2004 GNOME Foundation Elections (24/10/2004)

  The GNOME Foundation elections 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 rules and the timeline.

• Results of the Anonymous Voting Referendum official (24/10/2004)

  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.

• Preliminary results of the Anonymous Voting Referendum (11/10/2004)

  The preliminary results of the anonymous voting referendum have been posted. You can verify the results yourself. Any challenges to these results must be received by October 22nd.

• Anonymous Voting Referendum (14/09/2004)

  The GNOME Foundation will hold a referendum about anonymous voting in a few weeks. Take a look at the rules and the timeline.

• Results of 2003 elections official (20/12/2003)

  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:
  
  Jonathan Blandford, Dave Camp, Glynn Foster, Nat Friedman, Jody Goldberg, Bill Haneman, Leslie Proctor, Owen Taylor, Malcolm Tredinnick, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh.

• Preliminary results of 2003 elections announced (11/12/2003)

  The preliminary results of the elections have been posted. You can verify the results yourself. Any challenges to these results must be received by December 19th.

• GUADEC 2004 slated for Norway (04/11/2003)

  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 press release.

• 2003 GNOME Foundation Elections (22/10/2003)

  The GNOME Foundation elections 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 rules and the timeline.

• GUADEC 2003 to attract global audience of GNOME developers and enthusiasts (18/02/2003)

  Free software luminaries, open source developers gather to advance the next generation of the multi-platform desktop environment in June, Dublin Ireland.

• GNOME Foundation and Bitstream Inc. announce long-term agreement to bring high quality fonts to Free Software (12/21/2002)

  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.

• Results of 2002 elections official (12/21/2002)

  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:
  
  Jonathan Blandford, Miguel de Icaza, Glynn Foster, Nat Friedman, Jim Gettys, Jody Goldberg, Bill Haneman, James Henstridge, Daniel Veillard, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh.

• 2002 GNOME Foundation Elections (11/20/2002)

  The GNOME Foundation elections have begun. There are 23 candidates running for these elections.

• Foundation By-laws Posted (09/24/2002)

  The GNOME Foundation by-laws have now been posted in PDF format.

• Foundation Membership Renewal Exercise (08/31/2002)

  We are currently working to renew all old-style GNOME Foundation memberships under the new rules, available here. Affected members will receive mail today explaining what they need to do.

• Friends of GNOME Fundraising Program (07/17/2002)

  The Friends of GNOME program has been launched to help raise funds for development, education and promotion for GNOME worldwide. The GNOME Summit is one event which is supported through the generosity of this program.

• Results of 2001 election official (12/07/2001)

  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:
  
  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.

• Preliminary results of 2001 election announced (11/27/2001)

  The preliminary results of the election have been posted. Any challenges to these results must be received by December 4.

• 2001 Final list of election Candidates Announced (11/10/2001)

  All 2001 election candidates have been compiled into a Final List of Candidates. Voting begins on the 20th November and finishes on the 27th November.

• 2001 Election Schedule Announced (10/22/2001)

  The 2001 elections for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors has been announced.
  The announcement includes the timeline and details for who is eligible for nomination and to vote.

• Tim Ney Joins GNOME Foundation as Executive Director (08/22/2001)

  The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that Tim Ney is joining the GNOME Foundation as its executive director. For more information, see the press release and the announcement sent by Havoc Pennington.

• New Membership Policy Adopted (07/12/2001)

  A new membership qualification policy has been adopted and the GNOME Foundation Membership has been re-opened to new members. If you would like to become a member, please apply here.

• Board Meeting Minutes (biweekly)

  Minutes from the most recent board meeting can always be found in the foundation-announce mailing list archives.