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GNOME Hispano wins Best Initiative in Free Software Award

The GNOME Hispano group has been nominated in the Best Initiative in Free Software category of the Navegantes de Hoy awards, which are delivered by a newspaper in Extremadura. And GNOME Hispano won! This acknowledges the hard work done by the group in various areas like events, translations, and participation to the free software community.

Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation

Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs creates software for young children used on platforms like the One Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.

Motorola and Google join the GNOME Foundation

The GNOME Foundation continues to strengthen its industry support, with Google and Motorola joining the GNOME Foundation as Advisory Board members.

Upcoming Events

Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009

The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009.

The conference will be hosted by Cabildo, the local government of Gran Canaria.

The GNOME and KDE communities will use this co-located event to intensify momentum and increase collaboration between the projects. It gives a unique opportunity for key figures to collaborate and improve the free and open source desktop for all. Please visit the official website for further information.