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Debian joins Gnome Foundation Advisory Board



Since Joy asked for more information: here it is.

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	Joey

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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-11-24-007-04-NW-DB-GN

    Debian joins Gnome Foundation Advisory Board

    Nov 24, 2000, 15 :34 UTC (Other stories by Martin Schulze[1])

    Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:16:30 +0100 From: Martin Schulze
    joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de[2] To:
    debian-announce@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian joins Gnome
    Foundation Advisory Board 

    Debian Project http://www.debian.org/[3] Debian joins Gnome
    Foundation Advisory Board press@debian.org[4] November 21st,
    2000 

    The Debian project has been invited to join the Advisory
    Board of the recently created Gnome Foundation. The Advisory
    Board is a forum for organizations and companies that have an
    interest in Gnome to communicate with the Board of the
    Foundation and work together to support Gnome. 

    The Debian project is within a large variety of vendors on
    the Advisory Board like Borland, Compaq, Eazel, Free Software
    Foundation, Gnumatic, Helix Code, Henzai, Hewlett-Packard,
    IBM, MandrakeSoft, Object Management Group, Red Hat, Sun
    Microsystems, TurboLinux and VA Linux. 

    >> About Gnome Foundation 

    The Gnome Foundation will work to further the goals of the
    Gnome project. To achieve these goals, the Foundation will
    coordinate releases of Gnome and determine which projects are
    part of Gnome. The Foundation will act as an official voice
    for the Gnome project, providing a means of communication
    with the press and with commercial and noncommercial
    organizations interested in Gnome software. 

    >> About Debian 

    The Debian project is an organization of many users who
    volunteer their time and effort. Its tasks include
    maintaining and updating Debian GNU/Linux which is a free
    distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system, and the
    development of the Debian GNU/Hurd operating system. 

    >> Contact Information 

    For further information, please send email to the Debian
    Press Team press@debian.org[5] or visit the Debian homepage
    at http://www.debian.org/[6]. 

    Links:
    [1] http://www.linuxtoday.com/search.php3?author=Martin:Schulze
    [2] mailto:joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de
    [3] http://www.debian.org/
    [4] mailto:press@debian.org
    [5] mailto:press@debian.org
    [6] http://www.debian.org/

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