53cec58b55
2007-11-15 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@gnome.org>
* foundation.gnome.org/index.wml: Clarify Free Software vs
Open Source wording.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=418
128 lines
7.2 KiB
XML
128 lines
7.2 KiB
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
|
|
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
|
|
<html>
|
|
|
|
<head>
|
|
<title>The GNOME Foundation</title>
|
|
<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
|
|
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
|
|
</head>
|
|
|
|
<body>
|
|
<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.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<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.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<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.
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2>News</h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<strong>Fall 2007 Board of Directors election period begins</strong>
|
|
<small>(03/11/2007)</small>
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
Yearly election for Board of Directors election 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>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>More news is available <a href="news/">here</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Sponsors</h2>
|
|
<div class="center">
|
|
<a href="http://www.access-company.com/"><img src="img/logos/access.gif" alt="ACCESS" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
|
|
<a href="http://www.canonical.com/"><img src="img/logos/canonical.png" alt="Debian" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
|
|
<a href="http://www.debian.org/"><img src="img/logos/debian.gif" 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.hp.com/"><img src="img/logos/hp.gif" alt="Hewlett Packard" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
|
|
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/"><img src="img/logos/ibm.gif" 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.imendio.com/"><img src="img/logos/imendio.png" alt="Imendio" 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.nokia.com/"><img src="img/logos/nokia.gif" alt="Nokia" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
|
|
<a href="http://www.novell.com/"><img src="img/logos/novell.gif" alt="Novell Inc." 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.o-hand.com/"><img src="img/logos/openedhand.png" alt="OpenedHand" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
|
|
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="img/logos/redhat.gif" 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://www.sun.com/"><img src="img/logos/sun.gif" alt="Sun Microsystems" border="0" hspace="8" vspace="5" align="middle" /></a>
|
|
<p>
|
|
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>.
|
|
</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
</body>
|
|
</html>
|