ORINDA, CA – November 1st, 2017 – The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that Canonical, creator of the Ubuntu operating system, has joined the GNOME Foundation advisory board. The Advisory Board is a body of stakeholder organizations and companies who support the GNOME Project by providing funding and expert consultation. The…
Orinda, CA/San Francisco, September 19, 2017 - The GNOME Foundation has provided their endorsement and support of Purism’s efforts to build the Librem 5, which if successful will be the world’s first free and open smartphone with end-to-end encryption and enhanced user protections. The Librem 5 is a hardware platform the Foundation…
The GNOME Project is excited to announce the release of version 3.26, the latest version of GNOME 3. The new version is the result of six months' hard work by the GNOME community, and comes packed with improvements and new features. Announcing the release, Matthias Clasen of the GNOME Release Team, said…
ORINDA, CA. Today, the GNOME Project proudly celebrates its 20th Birthday. Founded by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero on August 15, 1997, GNOME has since become a pillar of the Free Software community. There have been 33 stable releases since the initial release of GNOME 1.0 in 1999. The latest…
ORINDA, CA. The GNOME Foundation welcomes its new Board of Directors for the 2017 – 2018 term: Alexandre Franke Allan Day Carlos Soriano Cosimo Cecchi Meg Ford Nuritzi Sanchez Zeeshan Ali Congratulations! This year we had 225 registered voters, 110 of which sent in valid ballots. Elections ran during the months of May…
The GNOME Project is responsible for the software that is used by hundreds of thousands of people, companies, and organizations around the world. Anyone can participate in the development of our software, and that equality of opportunity is an essential part of GNOME's mission. Our project and our software exist thanks to…
GNOME.Asia Summit 2017 invites proposals for presentations at the conference. GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME Conference in Asia. The event focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also covers applications and the development platform tools. It brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers,…
The GNOME.Asia Committee is proud to announce that the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2017 will be hosted in Chongqing, China on Oct 14-Oct 16. The GNOME.Asia committee has decided on the city of Chongqing because it uniquely represents an important theme: open source without any restriction of time, space, or location. Chongqing is…
GUADEC is GNOME's main annual conference. This year it is being held in Manchester, UK, from 28 July to 2nd August, and the call for papers is open until April 23rd. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas with the GNOME project, as well as the wider open source community.…
GNOME 3.24, the latest version of GNOME 3, is now available. Introducing an updated platform and applications, the release includes a number of major new features and enhancements, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. 3.24 represents another step forward for GNOME, and has much to offer both users and…