Month: October 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass – October 6, 2005 – The fifth GNOME Summit will be held October 8 through 10th. at the Stata Center, MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The GNOME Summit is an intensive workshop where members of the GNOME project get together to discuss development issues and demonstrate their work. The summit gives developers from around the globe, who work together and communicate with each other via the Internet, a chance to meet face-to-face. The goal of this Summit is to accelerate the development and planning work that will lead to future GNOME innovations and improvements.

“This is one of the two most important events for GNOME developers,” said Timothy Ney, executive director of the GNOME Foundation.

GNOME developers are constantly trying to find ways to improve the environment and make the end user experience better. Last year, the Summit focused on accessibility, quality assurance and usability initiatives were among the many topics covered during the conference.

The focus of this year’s Summit will be GNOME performance testing that is being done, so that the necessary improvements for 2.14 can made quickly and efficiently. Summit participants will be able to share data and information they have on performance in various environments – the standard desktop, thin clients and form devices such as the Nokia 770. Participants would also discuss the state of visuals and aesthetics in GNOME i.e. icons, themes, etc.

Last year, 130 developers attended the summit. The Summit is sponsored by GNOME Foundation with support from the Friends of GNOME. Ney said that this year, more than a 100 developers are expected to participate in the Summit.

GNOME developers meet twice a year, once in Europe at GUADEC and the second time in the United States at the Summit. The next gathering for developers and users will be in GUADEC, which will be held May 27th through May 31st.

About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation

Comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. GNOME is a free software desktop and development environment for personal computers, workstations, networked servers and portable Internet devices. Major leading software industry and computer manufacturers support the GNOME development effort, which is led by a worldwide community of volunteers.

The Foundation provides organizational, financial and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and roadmap. More information on GNOME is available at http://www.gnome.org/.

Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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 GNOME’s advisory board. Based in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain, and specializing in different applications of the GNOME platform, they reflect the diversity and optimism of the GNOME community.

“We strongly believe that GNOME technologies give advantages on today’s mobile and embedded platforms,” said Matthew Allum, Director of OpenedHand. “At OpenedHand we are both GNOME developers and users. That’s why we are excited to join the foundation and further support GNOME and broaden its audience”.

“The GNOME platform has always been a core part of our business, so it’s with great joy that we announce this partnership. Our developers have been involved both professionally and personally in GNOME since the beginning of the project. We see this as a great opportunity to also support GNOME financially.” said Mikael Hallendal, CEO of Imendio AB.

“With GStreamer as GNOME’s multimedia framework we were happy to be invited to join the GNOME Foundation advisory board,” said Julien Moutte, CEO of Fluendo. “Through collaboration with the GNOME and GStreamer communities we hope to provide a first class multimedia experience for GNOME users.”

About OpenedHand Ltd

OpenedHand has unique skills and experience in royalty-free mobile and embedded open source software, ranging from low-level kernel development to user interface work. OpenedHand develops open source software as well as contributing to numerous free software communities including X.org, Freedesktop.org, the Linux kernel, OpenEmbedded, GNOME, GTK and GPE.

About Imendio AB

Imendio is a small European company employing some of the world’s most experienced and talented GNOME and GTK+ developers. Imendio focuses on cross-platform library and API development, targeting platforms ranging from embedded devices to desktops. With extensive experience in GLib/GTK+ and XMPP/Jabber, Imendio provides first class software development services.

About Fluendo S.L.

Fluendo specializes in delivering products and consulting services focusing on UNIX and GNU/Linux multimedia. Fluendo employs several of the main developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems.

Fluendo’s flagship product is the Flumotion streaming media server, which benefits from a unique and powerful distributed design. Fluendo leads the way by combining best-of-breed systems from the Open Source world with a strong team of highly knowledgeable software engineers and a management team with extensive streaming media expertise.

About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation

Comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. GNOME is a free software desktop and development environment for personal computers, workstations, networked servers and portable Internet devices. Major leading software industry and computer manufacturers support the GNOME development effort, which is led by a worldwide community of volunteers.

The Foundation provides organizational, financial and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and roadmap. More information on GNOME is available at http://www.gnome.org/.

Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.