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The GNOME Foundation works to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is composed entirely of free software. It was founded on 5 March 2001 [ 1 ] by Compaq , Eazel , Helix Code , IBM , Red Hat , Sun Microsystems , and VA Linux Systems .
He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of GitHub and former chairman of the GNOME Foundation. Friedman is currently a board member at the Arc Institute and an advisor of Midjourney . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
GNOME 2 was released in June 2002 [59] [60] and was very similar to a conventional desktop interface, featuring a simple desktop in which users could interact with virtual objects such as windows, icons, and files. GNOME 2 started out with Sawfish as its default window manager, but later switched to Metacity in GNOME 2.2.
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. [ 8 ] Among the project's community programs is Outreachy , established with the goals of increasing women participation and improving the resources available to all newcomers for ...
GLib is a bundle of three (formerly five) low-level system libraries written in C and developed mainly by GNOME. GLib's code was separated from GTK, so it can be used by software other than GNOME and has been developed in parallel ever since. The name "GLib" originates from the project's start as a GTK C utility library.
As the Yorba Foundation had stopped its activities and GNOME had not announced any plans about this project at the time, the future of Geary was unclear. As a result, to these uncertainties, due to previous design disagreements with the old Geary team and because elementary OS was actually using Geary as the default mail client (though in a ...
In 2013 Pooja Saxena joined the GNOME foundation's “Outreach Programme for Women” internship, [4] and was tasked with improving the design and language support. [5] In 2014 Pooja was given financial support by Google Fonts to extend the design to Devanagari , but due to unavoidable vertical metrics adjustments the family was published with ...
In July 2008 Peters left OpenLogic and became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. [9] Her role was in coordinating with sponsors, business development and marketing. [8] In November 2010 she left to Mozilla. [1] Between July 2011 to June 2012 she was a member of the GNOME Board of Directors. [11]