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In August 2000, the GNOME Foundation was set up to deal with administrative tasks and press interest, and to act as a contact point for companies interested in developing GNOME software. While not directly involved in technical decisions, the Foundation does coordinate releases and decide which
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projects will be part of GNOME. Membership is open to anyone who has made a non-trivial contribution to the project. Members of the Foundation elect a board of directors every November, and candidates for the positions must be members themselves.
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desktop environment and the software platform upon which it is based. It consists of all the software developers, artists, writers, translators, other contributors, and active users of GNOME. It is no longer part of the
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Freedom – development infrastructure and communication channels are public, the code can be freely downloaded, modified and shared and all contributors have the same rights.
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also exists. GNOME also participated in the Desktop Summit, which is a joint conference organized by the GNOME and KDE communities that was held in Europe in 2009 and 2011.
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The GNOME Project holds several community programs and events, usually tailored to local users and developers. The main gathering of GNOME contributors is the
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projects. Previous collaboration efforts were ordinarily organized on project-to-project basis. To make the collaboration broader, the
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Independence – the governing board is democratically elected and technical decisions are made by the engineers doing the work.
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GNOME Project is involved in development of a range of notable software, including:
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Connectedness – work spans the entire Free software stack.
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The GNOME Project

Miguel de Icaza
Federico Mena
Open source
GNOME
GTK
GLib
gnome.org
GNOME
GNU Project
GNOME Foundation
GNOME Users And Developers European Conference
Outreachy
GNOME Shell
GNOME Core Applications
GTK
GLib
Cantarell
GObject Introspection
Client-Side Decoration
GDM
Mutter
Tango Desktop Project
Orca (assistive technology)
free software
freedesktop.org
accessibility
internationalization
GNOME Core Applications

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