Orinda, CA — September 23, 2013 — The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that Private Internet Access has joined GNOME's advisory board. The Advisory Board is a body of stakeholder organizations and companies who support the GNOME Project by providing funding and expert consultation. Last month during GUADEC, GNOME announced that…
Opening GUADEC 2013 today, Karen Sandler, GNOME Executive Director, announced that the Linux Foundation has become the latest member of GNOME's Advisory Board. The Advisory Board is a body of stakeholder organizations and companies who support the GNOME Project by providing funding and expert consultation. It includes IBM, Google, Intel and the…
Behind the scenes: Andrea Veri, the new GNOME part-time System Administrator. Some days ago Andrea Veri was chosen by the GNOME Foundation to support and maintain GNOME's IT infrastructure. His hiring comes at the end of a journey, during which Andrea has shown his technical abilities and passion for GNOME, and could be considered a…
The Web Version of the GNOME 2010-11 Annual Report is available for download (2.4 MB, PDF). The report, initially made available at the annual GNOME Foundation’s membership meeting, is a summary of GNOME community’s activities for the two years from 2010 to 2011. These years have been very exciting. A lot of…
Today's interview is from Seif Lotfy, one of the new GNOME Foundation board members. Where do you live/work? Darmstadt, 30km south of Frankfurt Germany. Why is open source/free software important to you? I believe open source/free software promotes innovation, due to its nature of crowd sourcing. How/when/why did you become involved in…
Our next interview comes from one of the new members of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Tobias Mueller. Where do you live/work? I live in Hamburg, in the lovely north of Germany. Why is open source/free software important to you? I believe that Free Software makes the world a better place.…
The GNOME Foundation Membership and the GNOME Elections Committee this week announced the final results for GNOME's 2012-2013 Board of Directors. The winners are: Emmanuele Bassi Joanmarie Diggs Seif Lotfy Shaun McCance Tobias Mueller Andreas Nilsson Bastien Nocera The new Board will begin officially in their leadership roles next month. Karen Sandler,…
Last month, GNOME Foundation have had more members to join its warm family. We are happy to announce that the new members are as follows: Dan Vrátil (Evolution's porting to WebKit, Bugzilla contributions) Stefano Candori (GNOME Activity Journal maintainer and Zeitgeist Andres Gomez (Organized GUADEC in the past, sponsors GNOME through Igalia…