Gnome Foundation

The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user experience. As part of this partnership, the Mozilla Foundation joins the GNOME Foundation advisory board and announces a grant of $10,000 to be spent on the improvement of accessibility.
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The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering. Read the full announcement.

The candidates were announced. This year, to make life easier for the candidates, the Membership Committee formulated the questions which will be answered on the GNOME Foundation mail list.

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
across a wide range of device profiles.

"GNOME continues to drive the cutting edge of Open Source and Free Software
innovation. With the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, GNOME expands the

SFLC and the GNOME Foundation have announced that SFLC will provide their extremely Free Software clueful legal services to the GNOME Foundation:

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software, today announced the addition of a new client, the GNOME Foundation. The GNOME Foundation supports the development of the open source GNOME Desktop Environment, a user interface used by millions of people around the world and distributed with all major versions of Linux and Unix.

For more information, check the complete press release.

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.

The GNOME Foundation 2006 elections will begin next week.

With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. A list of questions, including best questions from this thread, will be put to the candidates on the public Foundation mailing list.

Before asking your questions, please keep in mind that the GNOME Foundation is not a technical entity and the Board of Directors do not participate directly in the technical decisions of the developer community. See the Foundation website to learn more about the role of the GNOME Foundation and its Board of Directors.

The GNOME development will host its sixth Boston Summit Oct. 7-9 at the MIT Media Lab. The Boston Summit is a three-day "hackfest" for GNOME developers and contributors, the team said on its website.

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GNOME's Women's Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) is underway, with twice the number of projects originally scheduled, thanks to Google's generosity. The program has not only brought a few more women into the GNOME fold, but it seems to have jump-started efforts to actively recruit female developers within other open source projects as well.

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Following on from GNOME's participation in Google's Summer of Code, we've decided to sponsor three projects in a similar fashion to the Summer of Code, but for women only. GNOME had no Summer of Code applications from women, and we think it's time to do something to encourage more women to join our development community.

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Once again the Google Summer of Code is up and running. This is the chance for students interested in helping out with GNOME or a related project to get involved and get some money for your efforts. If you are interested you can find some proposals on the GNOME SoC wiki page, but you are also free to come up with your own ideas. There are also GNOME related projects available through many other organisations like Abisource, Beagle, Mono, Inkscape, OpenOffice.org, Eclipse, Gimp, handhelds.org, Mozilla, OpenSolaris, Xiph.org, BBC and more. Interested students should sign up through the Google Summer of Code through this webpage. Be aware that you have to sign up before the 8th of May.

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The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.

Membership Committee will announce 2005 Fall election candidates today or tomorrow. Before the voting starts, a debate will happen. We usually send questions to the candidates to launch the debate. If you want to see some discussion about what is important to you, here's your chance to make it happen! Of course, you'll still be able to directly ask questions to the candidates by posting them on foundation-list.

Please ask one question per post (and no more). The 10 best questions will be selected from this blog and previous years questions and sent to the candidates. So you may want to look at the questions from previous elections, at GnomeDesktop.org. As with the recent referandum over board size there will be 7 people on board. Since this will make it harder to choose from all hard working candidates, it's better to get their ideas over different subjects to make foundation members' decision easier.

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for the Reducing Board Size Referendum.

We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify
their vote.

These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to
elections gnome org The challenges have to be sent before Sunday,
November 13, 2005, 23:59 UTC. Please note that these results should not
be considered final until any such challenges have been resolved.

The question was: "Should the board size be reduced from its current 11
directors to 7 directors?"