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 its 9th year,…

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 is sponsored by…

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, OOXML and related…

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 cookery book with…

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 community. “GNOME has…

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 across a wide…

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 northern summer on…

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 using the SIP…

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…

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.…