You can also find more informal news at the Foundation Blog.
The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q3 2009 Quarterly report (HTML version). Q3 is always a big quarter for the GNOME Foundation and this one was bigger and better than usual. During Q3 we had our annual GUADEC, and GNOME 2.28 was released with lots of preparation work for GNOME 3.0. OSiM Mobile was well attended by GNOME Mobile member companies and products that use GNOME Mobile technologies like Moblin 2.0 and the Nokia N900 were released. We've raised $23,415 through Friends of GNOME so far this year! Our Advisory Board members have been very generous as well and we have many hackfests planned for Q4! Read on to hear what GNOME teams have accomplished in Q3 and what they are planning for Q4!
The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q2 2009 Quarterly report. In it you can learn how our new system administration team is already hard at work on projects like switching the version control system to git. The bugsquad team closed 12,549 bugs in Q2. The release teamput out 2.26.0 and announced GNOME 3.0. The marketing team announced plans for a GNOME store, a press team and a GNOME 3.0 campaign. And our extended community raised $12,392 through Friends of GNOME! Read about all this and more - our members have been busy working on a free desktop accessible for everyone!
This year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit represented the first time the GNOME and KDE communities have co-located their annual conferences in the same location. The summit accomplished its goal of increasing co-operation between GNOME and KDE to improve the Free Desktop experience. Read the press release.
The third annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for download (18680 KB, PDF) now.
The report aims to bring a summary of GNOME community activities in 2008. It includes a review of the year, accounts of various community activities and events around the world, and foundation development actions during the year.
Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs creates software for young children used on platforms like the One Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy. Read more
The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. Read more
The GNOME Foundation continues to strengthen its industry support, with Google and Motorola joining the GNOME Foundation as Advisory Board members. Read more
The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers. Read more
Bringing to an end a long search, the GNOME Foundation has hired Stormy Peters, a well-known industry analyst with a long-standing relationship with GNOME, as their Executive Director. The hire was announced at GUADEC 2008, GNOME's flagship conference, in Istanbul. Read more
The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to co-host Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and GNOME projects respectively, during the Summer of 2009. Read more
The 3rd GNOME Mobile Summit being held as part of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Austin from the 8th to the 10th of April will be a forum where industry and community merge into one, enabling effective collaboration on adapting the GNOME platform to the needs of mobile computing. Read more
The second annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for download (1860 KB, PDF) now.
The report aims to bring a summary of GNOME community activities in 2007. It includes a review of the year, accounts of various community activities and events around the world, and foundation development actions during the year.
The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user experience. As part of this partnership, the Mozilla Foundation joins the GNOME Foundation advisory board and announces a grant of $10,000 to be spent on the improvement of accessibility.
Read the announcement for more information.
The ninth GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from the 7th to the 12th of July 2008. The conference will bring together the GNOME development and user community and key personalities from businesses and governments, to discuss the future direction of the GNOME project. Read the press release.
The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering. Read the full announcement.
Yearly election for Board of Directors of GNOME Foundation ended. There were no challenges to preliminary results and new board members were announced. Elected board will serve for a period of 18 months.
Yearly election for Board of Directors of GNOME Foundation has begun. Announcement from Elections & Membership Committee was sent to foundation-announce mailing list. Time line and information about the election can be viewed from announcement mail.
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 earlier proposal was discussed on foundation-list in August, and this modified proposal is a result of legal advice to the Board, suggesting that we change the bylaws to provide flexibility in future.
The voting period will begin on 2007-09-28 and end on 2007-10-12.
Following its increasing involvement in GNOME, Igalia is joining the GNOME Foundation as an Advisory Board member.
See the announcement for more information.
The GNOME Foundation would like to warmly welcome Canonical Ltd. as an Advisory Board member. Canonical Ltd. is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.
See the announcement for more information.
The first annual report of the GNOME Foundation is available for download (935 KB, PDF) now.
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.
The GNOME Foundation is welcoming Intel as an Advisory Board member. This is part of Intel's increasing commitment to GNOME and to the free software desktop.
See more information in the announce.
Groups interested in hosting the next GUADEC in 2007 are invited to write a formal invitation to the board of the GNOME Foundation.
The invitation should be send to the board and Anne Østergaard at the latest on April 19th 2006. See all the details in this mail.
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the official results for the 2005 GNOME Foundation elections. The Foundation board directors for the 2005/2006 term of office are:
Jonathan Blandford, Federico Mena-Quintero, David Neary, Anne Østergaard, Vincent Untz, Luis Villa, Jeff Waugh
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce that the results for the reducing board size referendum are now official. There will be 7 slots to be filled in all future GNOME Foundation elections, instead of 11 previously.
The preliminary results of the reducing board size referendum have been posted. You can verify the results yourself. Any challenges to these results must be received by November 13th.
The GNOME Foundation elections will begin this month. If you want to run for these elections, you have to nominate yourself before November 14th. Take a look at the rules and the timeline.
The GNOME Foundation will hold a referendum about reducing the board size. Take a look at the rules and the timeline.
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce that the results for the 2004 GNOME Foundation elections are now official. The Foundation board directors for the 2004/2005 term of office are:
Jonathan Blandford, Murray Cumming, Jody Goldberg, Miguel de Icaza, Federico Mena-Quintero, David Neary, Tim Ney, Christian Schaller, Owen Taylor, Daniel Veillard, Luis Villa.
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 20th.
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.
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.
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.
The GNOME Foundation will hold a referendum about anonymous voting in a few weeks. Take a look at the rules and the timeline.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free software luminaries, open source developers gather to advance the next generation of the multi-platform desktop environment in June, Dublin Ireland.
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.
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.
The GNOME Foundation elections have begun. There are 23 candidates running for these elections.
The GNOME Foundation by-laws have now been posted in PDF format.
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.
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.
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.
The preliminary results of the election have been posted. Any challenges to these results must be received by December 4.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Minutes from the most recent board meeting can always be found in the foundation-announce mailing list archives.