GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces
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| The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation announced today that they
| will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user
| experience of desktop applications on GNU/Linux and other free software
| systems.
|
| The partnership has three aspects:
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| * The Mozilla Foundation will join the GNOME Foundation advisory board,
| helping set the long-term direction of the project.
| * Mozilla reaffirms its commitment to integrating with the GNOME platform
| for the XUL development platform, and for Mozilla Firefox.
| * The Mozilla Foundation announces a grant of $10,000 to the GNOME
| Foundation, to be spent on the improvement of the accessibility of the
| GNOME desktop environment via the "GNOME Outreach Program:
| Accessibility" program.
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http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-03-mofojoins.html
Create Your Own Sexylicious Ubuntu Desktop
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| Many people asked about that very nice Ubuntu theme, which is actually a
| mockup, and they wanted to have such a beauty on their desktops. Therefore,
| this guide will teach you how to create your own "sexylicious" Ubuntu
| desktop! In other words, we will pimp your desktop and change its looks...
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Create-Your-Own-Sexylicious-Ubuntu-Desktop-80189.shtml
Recent:
GNOME focuses on accessibility -- with a little help from Mozilla and others
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| The GNOME Foundation has turned its attention to accessibility for people
| with disabilities. To help improve both Web accessibility within GNOME and
| the project's long-term direction, the Mozilla Foundation is joining the
| GNOME advisory board, and plans to help improve integration of the XUL
| development platform with GNOME. Even more significantly, the GNOME
| Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, Novell, Google, and Canonical are jointly
| sponsoring a $50,000 outreach program to help improve accessibility in GNOME.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/127801
Related:
With Friends Like These - GNOME, OOXML, and ODF: A Q&A
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| On the first of this month, after reading about the original dispute between
| ODF advocates and representatives from the GNOME community,
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/11/29/gnome_odf/
Gnome foundation in kahoots?
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| summary:
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| Having a delegate in the ECMA T45 Committee the Gnome foundation clarified
| its involvement in a superb standard development and bashes the vendor.
|
| [...]
|
| The Gnome foundation actively participated in the ECMA fast-tracking of Open
| XML as a sock puppet for Novell. Now the Foundation clarified its position
| that came under recent criticism.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-28290/gnome-foundation-in-kahoots
GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
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| Instead, I suspect that many in the community would agree with Ossendryver's
| statement on his blog that "The participation of GNOME in ECMA TC45’s
| apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS
| and all in the community who have worked so hard for open platforms and open
| standards." From this position, what matters is loyalty -- and that, for
| many, seems to mean support only for ODF and a complete boycott of any
| efforts to make OOXML a standard. Far from clarifying matters, the
| Foundation's statement may very well serve only to confirm this position and
| to justify the paranoia about its motives.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121930
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