GNOME Community Celebrates 10 Years of Software Freedom, Innovation and Industry Adoption

Boston MA, USA -- August 15, 2007 -- A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME's tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20. During the celebration month, GNOME contributors will create a scrapbook wiki recording their ten year history, and a commemorative…

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Free software engineering company Igalia announces today that it has joined GNOME Foundation’s advisory board.

The GNOME Foundation advisory board is a vehicle for free software-friendly organizations and companies to communicate with the board of directors and help the directors guide the overall direction of GNOME. Based in Spain, Igalia is a company which has been using GNOME technologies and contributing back by getting involved within the…

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The GNOME Foundation and Industry Leaders Join to Create GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

Developers and Corporations Unite to Advance GNOME Technology as Leading User Experience Platform for Mobile and Embedded Devices. Embedded Linux Conference, Santa Clara, USA -- April 19, 2007 -- The GNOME Foundation announced today the creation of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative (GMAE), and a software platform for user experience development…

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GNOME to Sponsor Female Developers in a Summer Outreach Program

BOSTON, Mass - June 13, 2006 - The GNOME Foundation is offering USD$9000 to female students in order to promote the participation of women in GNOME-related development. The money originates from GNOME's participation in the Google "Summer of Code" program (code.google.com/soc/), for which GNOME developers will mentor 20 students working throughout the…

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GNOME 2.14 released!

The creation of an admin suite, including a lock down editor, Pessulus, and a user profile editor, Sabayon A new search bar, called Deskbar, which can search through local files, programs and contacts as well as on the web Ekiga, the VoIP client formerly known as GNOME Meeting. It can now communicate…

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Three New Companies Join the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board

European Start-ups in Media and Mobile Technology Use GNOME BOSTON, Mass - October 5, 2005 - The GNOME Foundation today announced three new corporate members - OpenedHand Ltd., Imendio AB and Fluendo S.L. These young growing companies are eager to support the GNOME Desktop project and become more deeply involved by joining…

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GNOME 2.12 released!

New version of the popular free-software desktop environment offers convenience and capability. BOSTON, Mass - September 7, 2005 - The GNOME Project today released the latest version of the GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform, the leading desktop for Linux and Unix operating systems. Version 2.12 improves the usability and power of GNOME…

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GUADEC 2006 slated for Barcelona

The 7th annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) will draw businesses, government, education and end users to Barcelona. BOSTON, Mass. - 20 June, 2005 - The 7th annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) will bring software developers, as well as business, government and private users of free and…

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