organization:gnome foundation

Canonical Has Joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/11/canonical-joined-gnome-foundation-advisory-board

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Canonical has joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board. It’s a timely (but thoroughly logical) appointment what with the recent Ubuntu 17.10 release being the first version of Ubuntu to ship with the GNOME Shell desktop environment by default. But what is the GNOME Advisory Board? Well, GNOME explains it as “…a body of stakeholder organizations and companies who […] This post, Canonical Has Joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Librem 5 Leads New Wave of Open Source Mobile Linux Contenders | Linux.com | The source for Linux information
▻https://www.linux.com/blog/2017/9/librem-5-leads-new-wave-open-source-mobile-linux-contenders

Just when it seemed that the dream for an open source Linux phone had run its course, several new hardware and software projects have emerged, and some older projects have sought new life as aftermarket replacements. The biggest news in recent weeks was the endorsement by the KDE project and GNOME Foundation for Purism’s new open source Librem 5 phone. Also, Raspberry Pi lovers are anticipating the upcoming Crowd Supply campaign for RPi Zero based ZeroPhone project.

GNOME Foundation Gives its Backing to Purism’s Linux Phone
▻http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/gnome-foundation-gives-backing-purisms-linux-phone

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The GNOME Foundation has today given its backing to Purism’s ambition of building a free, open-source smartphone with user privacy and encryption as a central feature. This post, GNOME Foundation Gives its Backing to Purism’s Linux Phone, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

#GNOME starts campaign to protect its #trademarks
▻http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/11/gnome-starts-campaign-to-protect-its-trademarks

GNOME has launched a campaign to raise funds for protecting the GNOME trademarks.

Recently, #Groupon launched Gnome, a tablet-based point of sale (POS) system that Groupon describes as a “platform” and an “operating system”.

The GNOME Foundation is concerned and sees their long-established mark for Free Software, GNOME, endangered. The GNOME Foundation asks for ideological and monetary support to cover the costs of opposing the marks Groupon applied to register, which were estimated to be around 80,000 USD.

▻http://www.gnome.org/groupon