Where's GNOME? [LWN.net]

Where's GNOME?

Posted Feb 4, 2003 16:22 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
Parent article: Desktop Linux group launches (ZDNet)

In a group focusing on GNU/Linux desktop users, where's GNOME mentioned?

Where is FreeDesktop.org mentioned?

Did Debian decline to be represented or were they left out?
RedHat?

Really.

Ciaran O'Riordan

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Where's GNOME?

Posted Feb 4, 2003 17:37 UTC (Tue) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link] (2 responses)

From Reading The Fine Links I found this:

Ximian

My question: where's AfterSTEP?

Not really.

Where's GNOME?

Posted Feb 5, 2003 19:14 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] (1 responses)

GNOME is invited. I think they have to hold a board meeting, etc. I'm not sure anyone sent AfterStep an invitation, but they are invited now.

Bruce

Where's GNOME?

Posted Feb 6, 2003 2:11 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

Someone pointed out that I bypassed the sarcasm above. That's me. I
was just looking for my own problems and not bothering with the rest.
I looked at that comment and said to myself, "oh darn, we didn't
talk with AfterStep". FreeDesktop.org isn't really its own organization,
it's either a collaboration of GNOME and KDE or it's Havoc Pennington's
web site. I'm not sure.

Anyway, I want to have a membership category for free software projects
that is without fee, and want to be reasonably careful about who gets
into that category - people who make real software, rather than advocacy
groups, are the target. Currently, I am representing all of the free
software projects as a voting member, just to get us through the formation
stage.

Thanks

Bruce

Where's GNOME?

Posted Feb 4, 2003 17:39 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] (1 responses)

Debian and Ximian (the commercial arm of GNOME) are both mentioned on the DLC web site.

I'm sure any other organizations and companies are free to join in...

Where's GNOME?

Posted Feb 5, 2003 16:01 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

Ximian is not the commercial arm of Gnome. It is simply one of many companies that work on Gnome, and produce distributions using code released by Gnome. Other companies that do this include Mandrake, Red Hat and Sun.

Ximian's involvement in the consortium would be as representation for Ximian's interests. Not Gnome's interests (although these two do intersect in some areas).

Where's GNOME?

Posted Feb 5, 2003 15:55 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

We got an invite to be one of the founding members, but did not have enough time to investigate the details, or consult with the membership of the Gnome Foundation.

Daniel Veillard summed things up in a message to the Gnome Foundation mailing list:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-February/msg00002.html

Not being part of the initial announcement does not preclude cooperation in the future.