GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces

BOSTON, Mass — March 04, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation announced today that they will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user experience of desktop applications on GNU/Linux and other free software systems. The partnership has three aspects: The Mozilla Foundation will join the GNOME Foundation…

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GUADEC 2008 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey

BOSTON, Mass—February 28, 2008—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. Now in…

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GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects

BOSTON, Mass—February 27, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering US$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME and broader Free Software communities, as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering. The program…

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GNOME Foundation Statement on ECMA TC45-M Participation

Recently, a number of articles have raised concern in various communities about the GNOME Foundation's membership of ECMA and participation in TC45-M — the technical committee reviewing Microsoft Office Open XML, or "OOXML". In this statement we describe our participation in ECMA TC45-M, and provide a summary of our position on ODF,…

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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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