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'''The Gnome Foundation = the non-profit assocation supporting the [[Gnome Project]]''' | '''The Gnome Foundation = the non-profit assocation supporting the [[Gnome Project]]''' | ||
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"The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. GNOME is part of the GNU Project, and is Free Software (sometimes referred to as Open Source software). | "The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. GNOME is part of the GNU Project, and is Free Software (sometimes referred to as Open Source software). | ||
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To achieve this goal, the Foundation will coordinate releases of GNOME and determine which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation will act as an official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of GNOME software." | To achieve this goal, the Foundation will coordinate releases of GNOME and determine which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation will act as an official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of GNOME software." | ||
(http://foundation.gnome.org/) | (http://foundation.gnome.org/) | ||
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"The GNOME Project provides both a desktop environment and a development platform. The focus of the desktop is ease of use, stability, internationalization, and accessibility support. The development platform provides an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop. GNOME 2.24 represents the first release of the GNOME Mobile development platform which brings standard desktop components together to provide a core platform on which distributors and handheld manufacturers can build rich programming environments. | |||
The GNOME community currently has over 14 million users that consume GNOME technologies and software in many ways. Some consumers use the full desktop, others use its multimedia applications for photo editing or listening to music, while others run its software on their smart phone. When doctors use a Supersonic Imagine scanner, they are using GNOME technologies to detect breast cancer. When children around the world use their One Laptop Per Child XO, they are using GNOME technologies. What is true in all cases is that the end user probably didn't directly download GNOME or its applications." | |||
(http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/819/791) | |||
=More Information= | =More Information= | ||
The Wikipedia article is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation | #The Wikipedia article is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation | ||
#See [[FLOSS Governance]] for similar organizations, and the entry on [[Peer Governance]] for some broader context. | |||
See [[FLOSS Governance]] for similar organizations, and the entry on [[Peer Governance]] for some broader context. | #Stormy Peters on how Gnome interacts with end-users, at http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/819/791 | ||
Revision as of 14:01, 11 January 2009
The Gnome Foundation = the non-profit assocation supporting the Gnome Project
URL = http://foundation.gnome.org/
Description
1.
"The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers. GNOME is part of the GNU Project, and is Free Software (sometimes referred to as Open Source software).
The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software.
To achieve this goal, the Foundation will coordinate releases of GNOME and determine which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation will act as an official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation may produce educational materials and documentation to help the public learn about GNOME software. In addition, it may sponsor GNOME-related technical conferences, and represent GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, help create technical standards for the project and promote the use and development of GNOME software." (http://foundation.gnome.org/)
2.
"The GNOME Project provides both a desktop environment and a development platform. The focus of the desktop is ease of use, stability, internationalization, and accessibility support. The development platform provides an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop. GNOME 2.24 represents the first release of the GNOME Mobile development platform which brings standard desktop components together to provide a core platform on which distributors and handheld manufacturers can build rich programming environments.
The GNOME community currently has over 14 million users that consume GNOME technologies and software in many ways. Some consumers use the full desktop, others use its multimedia applications for photo editing or listening to music, while others run its software on their smart phone. When doctors use a Supersonic Imagine scanner, they are using GNOME technologies to detect breast cancer. When children around the world use their One Laptop Per Child XO, they are using GNOME technologies. What is true in all cases is that the end user probably didn't directly download GNOME or its applications." (http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/819/791)
More Information
- The Wikipedia article is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation
- See FLOSS Governance for similar organizations, and the entry on Peer Governance for some broader context.
- Stormy Peters on how Gnome interacts with end-users, at http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/819/791