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| Founded | August 1997; 28 years ago (1997-08) |
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| Founder | Miguel de Icaza andFederico Mena[1] |
| Type | Community |
| Focus | Open source |
| Products | GNOME,GTK,GLib, and others |
| Method | Development and documentation |
Parent organization | GNOME Foundation |
| Website | gnome |
GNOME Project is a community behind theGNOMEdesktop environment and thesoftware platform upon which it is based. It consists of all thesoftware developers, artists, writers, translators, other contributors, as well as active users of GNOME. The GNOME Foundation used to recognize GNOME as part ofGNU;[2] however, in 2021, the staff of the Foundation declared that GNOME is not aGNU Project.[3][4]
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 projects will be part of GNOME. Membership is open to anyone who has made a non-trivial contribution to the project.[5] Members of the Foundation elect aboard of directors every November, and candidates for the positions must be members themselves.
The GNOME Project holds several community programs and events, usually tailored to local users and developers. The main gathering of GNOME contributors is theGNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC), an annual conference used to discuss the development and progress of GNOME.[6] The idea of GUADEC events is attributed to the GNOME developers' and users'Paris meeting of 1998.[7] There is an annual Asian conference calledGNOME.Asia.[8] 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.[9]
Among the project's community programs isOutreachy, established with the goals of increasing women participation and improving the resources available to all newcomers for getting involved in GNOME.[10]
GNOME Project is involved in development of a range of notable software, including:[11]
The GNOME Project actively collaborates with otherfree software projects. Previous collaboration efforts were ordinarily organized on project-to-project basis.[12] To make the collaboration broader, thefreedesktop.org project was founded.
The project focuses on:[13]
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