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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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<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report Q4 2009 released</strong>
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<small>(03/02/2010)</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-Q4.pdf">Q4 2009 Quarterly
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report</a> (<a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q4.html">HTML
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version</a>). Q4 is normally a quiet quarter — but not for
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GNOME! During Q4 we had our annual GNOME Asia, GNOME Forum Brazil and
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Boston Summit events as well as a record four hackfests! The
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Marketing, Zeitgeist, Video and WebKitGTK+ teams all made good
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progress on their goals during their hackfests. Next quarter we'll
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continue the good work with hackfests planned in areas like usability
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and accessibility. GNOME will also be represented at a number of
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events like FOSDEM, SCALE, FOSS 2010 Workshop, Open Mobility, Libre
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Planet and more! In addition to events, teams like the System
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Administration team have made a lot of progress — they've installed
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Piwik, Plone, Splinter, and CiviCRM to improve GNOME's infrastructure.
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This quarter's update also includes an update from the GNOME Board of
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Directors. <a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q4.pdf">Read on</a>
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to hear all of the fabulous work that was done on GNOME in Q4 2009!
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</blockquote>
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<strong>GUADEC 2010 to be held in The Hague, Netherlands</strong>
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<small>(30/11/2009)</small>
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The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that GUADEC 2010 will be
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held in The Hague, Netherlands July 24th-30th, 2010. The conference
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is expected to draw more than 500 attendees to discuss and direct the
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future of the GNOME Project. The Hague was one of several locations
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proposed for GUADEC in 2010. It was chosen in part due to the
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excellent facilities at the bid site, as well as easily accessible
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site for those traveling to GUADEC. Read the <a
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href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-11-guadec2010.html">press
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release</a>.
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</blockquote>
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<strong>GNOME Quarterly Report Q3 2009 released</strong>
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<small>(30/10/2009)</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-Q3.pdf">Q3 2009 Quarterly
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report</a> (<a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q3.html">HTML
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version</a>). Q3 is always a big quarter for the GNOME Foundation and
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this one was bigger and better than usual. During Q3 we had our
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annual GUADEC, and GNOME 2.28 was released with lots of preparation
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work for GNOME 3.0. OSiM Mobile was well attended by GNOME Mobile
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member companies and products that use GNOME Mobile technologies like
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Moblin 2.0 and the Nokia N900 were released. We've raised $23,415
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through Friends of GNOME so far this year! Our Advisory Board members
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have been very generous as well and we have many hackfests planned
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for Q4! <a href="./reports/gnome-report-2009-Q3.pdf">Read on</a> to
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hear what GNOME teams have accomplished in Q3 and what they are
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planning for Q4!
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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.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.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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