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<title>The GNOME Foundation</title>
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<h1>The GNOME Foundation</h1>
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use
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desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application
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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
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href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</a>,
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and developed as <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open
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Source</a> software.
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The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project:
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to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is
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completely free software.
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To achieve this goal, the Foundation will coordinate releases of GNOME and
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determine which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation will act as an
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official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication
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with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations
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interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational
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materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software.
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In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and
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represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create
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technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of
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GNOME software.
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</p>
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<h2>News</h2>
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<ul>
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<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report 2009 Q2 released</strong>
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<small>(11/09/2009)</small>
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<blockquote>
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The GNOME Foundation would like to present the <a
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href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q2.pdf">Q2 2009 Quarterly
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report</a>. In it you can learn how our new system administration
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team is already hard at work on projects like switching the version
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control system to git. The bugsquad team closed 12,549 bugs in Q2.
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The release teamput out 2.26.0 and announced GNOME 3.0. The marketing
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team announced plans for a GNOME store, a press team and a GNOME 3.0
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campaign. And our extended community raised $12,392 through Friends
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of GNOME! <a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q2.pdf">Read about all
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this and more</a> - our members have been busy working on a free
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desktop accessible for everyone!
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</blockquote>
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<strong>Success of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit</strong>
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<small>(05/08/2009)</small>
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This year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit represented the first time
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the GNOME and KDE communities have co-located their annual
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conferences in the same location. The summit accomplished its goal of
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increasing co-operation between GNOME and KDE to improve the Free
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Desktop experience. Read the <a
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href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-08-desktop-summit-conclusion.html">press
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release</a>.
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</blockquote>
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<li>
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<strong>GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2008 released</strong>
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<small>(09/07/2009)</small>
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The third annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for
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<a href="./reports/gnome-annual-report-2008.pdf">download (18680 KB, PDF)</a> now.<br/>
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The report aims to bring a summary of GNOME community activities in 2008.
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It includes a review of the year, accounts of various community
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activities and events around the world, and foundation development
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actions during the year.
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<strong>Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation</strong>
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<small>(2008-12-22)</small>
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Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining
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the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs
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creates software for young children used on platforms like the One
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Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and
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relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.
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<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html">Read
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more</a>
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</blockquote>
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</li>
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</ul>
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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>
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<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.google.com/"><img src="img/logos/google.png" alt="Google" 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.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.motorola.com/"><img src="img/logos/motorola.png" alt="Motorola" 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.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://sugarlabs.org/"><img src="img/logos/sugarlabs.png" alt="Sugar Labs" 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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