From bheffner@chenpr.com Tue Nov 14 09:53:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B22B2BCE8 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:53:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 102; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:49:03 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:55:47 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114095654.0250cc90@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:59:41 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org, kjameson@chenpr.com, bnashawaty@chenpr.com From: "Barbara Heffner" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] the451.com on GNOME election Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Congrats everyone.  Any advice on Florida would be appreciated.=20


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Gnome's Miguel de Icaza wins election
Rachel Chalmers
GMT Nov 11, 2000, 02:34 AM | ET Nov 10, 2000, 09:34 PM | PT Nov 10, 2000, 06:34 PM

San Francisco - Charismatic Helix Code founder Miguel de Icaza has been elected by a landslide =96 to the 11-member board of the Gnome Foundation. The Foundation was established in August to guide the development of Gnome, a powerful, component-based graphical user interface for Unix. Gnome's advocates would like to establish the software as the standard Unix desktop, and after winning the support of Sun and Hewlett-Packard, they're well on their way.

Gnome began life as part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project. It has many ardent supporters, but no one person can claim more credit for its popularity than de Icaza himself, a former university systems administrator from Mexico, now developing ambitious applications for Gnome as well as evangelizing the technology at conferences around the world.

Not surprisingly, then, de Icaza won the most votes of any candidate =96 269 of 330 valid ballots. His colleague Frederico Quintero also made the cut. Red Hat's Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor claimed two seats on the board. X veteran Jim Gettys won a place for Compaq, and Linux ease-of-use startup Eazel got four of its employees elected =96 Bart Decrem, Dan Mueth, Maciej Stachowiak and Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. The W3C's Daniel Veillard and Sun's John Heard round out the team.

The Gnome community seemed satisfied with the results. The board is balanced across the major contributing companies and exhibits a nice combination of specialized talents. As well as Ghostscript and X, the GNU tool kit is represented by Taylor and the documentation team by Mueth.

Even Bruce Perens, who fell short of election by 44 votes, was pleased with the 90 votes he did receive. "I did pretty well considering that I haven't been an active Gnome developer up to now," he wrote.

If the Gnome Foundation works, Gnome will be the most democratic free software project ever. Now, if only we could get them to run the USA...
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From bheffner@chenpr.com Fri Nov 17 12:35:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297522D3B5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:35:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 351; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:30:37 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:37:41 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001117123750.0259c700@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:40:07 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org From: "Barbara Heffner" Cc: emcshane@chenpr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] Upside: KDE League Looks Much like Gnome Foundation Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Upside article on the recent announcement. >http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/print-it?id=3D3a1445951&t=3D/texis/mvm/open= _season >Upside >Open Season: KDE League looks much like Gnome Foundation >by Sam Williams >November 17, 2000 > >If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Gnome developers must be=20 >feeling pretty flattered right now. > >On Wednesday a collection of software developers and businesses associated= =20 >with KDE, the graphic user interface program designed to improve the user= =20 >friendliness of the GNU/Linux operating system, banded together at the Las= =20 >Vegas Comdex show to announce the creation of the KDE League. > >Although the press conference had absolutely nothing to do with the Gnome= =20 >project, a separate Linux user interface effort whose developers and users= =20 >have maintained a spirited rivalry with the KDE camp for two years=20 >running, the timing was unfortunate. After all, it was only three months=20 >ago that Gnome developers and business partners were joining together at=20 >the San Jose Linux World to announce a similar cross-industry effort=20 >dubbed the Gnome Foundation. The fact that a number of companies, such as= =20 >IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HWP) and Compaq (CPQ), had representatives at= =20 >both press conferences added to the feeling of d=E9j=E0 vu. > >Despite the similarities, organizers of Wednesday's event did their best=20 >to distance the two efforts. > >Making the best of it > >"This is not a reaction to the Gnome Foundation," said Andreas Pour,=20 >president of KDE.com and one of the chief organizers of the KDE League.=20 >"In fact, it's something that's been in the works (for) over a year." > >The KDE League does differ from the Gnome Foundation in a number of ways.= =20 >Unlike the Gnome Foundation, which according to early drafts of its=20 >mission statement will "coordinate releases and determine which projects=20 >are part of Gnome," the KDE League promises to have minimal involvement in= =20 >the design and developmental politics inside the KDE project. > >The primary purpose of the League, according to KDE League President Chris= =20 >Schlaeger, is to unify existing publicity and marketing efforts related to= =20 >KDE, not influence the future direction of interface development. > >"Anybody who wants to contribute to KDE can do so by taking part in the=20 >well-established model for contributing to KDE," says Schlaeger. "The KDE= =20 >League does nothing to change that process in any form." > >Matthias Dalheimer, a leading KDE developer, said via email that the KDE=20 >project, while still trying to maintain its independence from the=20 >businesses participating in the KDE League, welcomes the support. > >"We have been criticized in the past for (having) bad PR, not being able=20 >to communicate our achievements, etc.," wrote Dalheimer. "Sometimes, our=20 >press releases were two weeks late ... Sometimes we did not have one at=20 >all. The KDE League is supposed to remedy this. It raises both funds and=20 >competence in marketing because of the involvement of a number of=20 >companies that know how to market software." > >Compatibility issues > >Nevertheless, Wednesday's conference had one element that seemed to imply= =20 >a significant shift in the future work of Dalheimer and other KDE=20 >developers. IBM, a charter KDE League member, announced that its own=20 >developers have been working to port voice recognition software to the KDE= =20 >interface. > >The company said in a statement that its developers had been working in=20 >conjunction with MandrakeSoft, a Linux distribution company, and=20 >Trolltech, a Norwegian company that has overseen much of the development=20 >on the Qt library, a major KDE component, to make IBM's ViaVoice software= =20 >compatible with KDE. IBM has officially supported a Linux version of=20 >ViaVoice since April 1999, but Wednesday marks the first time the=20 >technology has been available for KDE. > >For the moment, says Trolltech President Erik Eng, ViaVoice will focus on= =20 >desktop versions of the GNU/Linux operating system. Given the limited real= =20 >estate available on most mobile devices, however, the voice recognition=20 >technology seems to be a natural problem solver for mobile device=20 >designers. Indeed, Trolltech announced at Comdex the official release of=20 >Qt embedded, an embedded version of the Qt library that should speed KDE=20 >development for handheld and other mobile computing devices. > >"I would not be surprised to see ViaVoice and KDE on embedded devices in=20 >2001," says Eng. "The technology is there. It's just a question of putting= =20 >it together." > >ViaVoice recognition certainly gives the older KDE project a chance to=20 >play lead dog again in its race with Linux rival Gnome. According to an=20 >IBM spokesperson, the company is still in talks with the Gnome Foundation= =20 >about porting ViaVoice to that interface. > >KDE.com's Pour said he looks forward to a more concrete announcement about= =20 >voice recognition software for embedded versions of KDE at the New York=20 >Linuxworld in January. In the meantime, he preferred to downplay the=20 >Gnome-KDE rivalry that has provided so much fodder for the open source=20 >media over the past two years. > >"Four percent of the desktop market today already uses Linux," says Pour,= =20 >citing recent statistics from International Data Corp. "Our goal is not to= =20 >compete over that 4 percent. Our goal is to attack the 96 percent that=20 >still use proprietary software, not to mention the almost 100 percent of=20 >the mobile device market that still relies on proprietary software." CHEN PR, Inc. 1601 Trapelo Road Waltham, Mass. 02451 P: 781-466-8282 F: 781-466-8989 From bheffner@chenpr.com Tue Nov 14 09:53:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B22B2BCE8 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:53:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 102; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:49:03 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:55:47 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114095654.0250cc90@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:59:41 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org, kjameson@chenpr.com, bnashawaty@chenpr.com From: "Barbara Heffner" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] the451.com on GNOME election Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Congrats everyone.  Any advice on Florida would be appreciated.=20


From The451.com
Gnome's Miguel de Icaza wins election
Rachel Chalmers
GMT Nov 11, 2000, 02:34 AM | ET Nov 10, 2000, 09:34 PM | PT Nov 10, 2000, 06:34 PM

San Francisco - Charismatic Helix Code founder Miguel de Icaza has been elected by a landslide =96 to the 11-member board of the Gnome Foundation. The Foundation was established in August to guide the development of Gnome, a powerful, component-based graphical user interface for Unix. Gnome's advocates would like to establish the software as the standard Unix desktop, and after winning the support of Sun and Hewlett-Packard, they're well on their way.

Gnome began life as part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project. It has many ardent supporters, but no one person can claim more credit for its popularity than de Icaza himself, a former university systems administrator from Mexico, now developing ambitious applications for Gnome as well as evangelizing the technology at conferences around the world.

Not surprisingly, then, de Icaza won the most votes of any candidate =96 269 of 330 valid ballots. His colleague Frederico Quintero also made the cut. Red Hat's Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor claimed two seats on the board. X veteran Jim Gettys won a place for Compaq, and Linux ease-of-use startup Eazel got four of its employees elected =96 Bart Decrem, Dan Mueth, Maciej Stachowiak and Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. The W3C's Daniel Veillard and Sun's John Heard round out the team.

The Gnome community seemed satisfied with the results. The board is balanced across the major contributing companies and exhibits a nice combination of specialized talents. As well as Ghostscript and X, the GNU tool kit is represented by Taylor and the documentation team by Mueth.

Even Bruce Perens, who fell short of election by 44 votes, was pleased with the 90 votes he did receive. "I did pretty well considering that I haven't been an active Gnome developer up to now," he wrote.

If the Gnome Foundation works, Gnome will be the most democratic free software project ever. Now, if only we could get them to run the USA...
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From bheffner@chenpr.com Fri Nov 17 12:35:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297522D3B5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:35:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 351; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:30:37 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:37:41 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001117123750.0259c700@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:40:07 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org From: "Barbara Heffner" Cc: emcshane@chenpr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] Upside: KDE League Looks Much like Gnome Foundation Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Upside article on the recent announcement. >http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/print-it?id=3D3a1445951&t=3D/texis/mvm/open= _season >Upside >Open Season: KDE League looks much like Gnome Foundation >by Sam Williams >November 17, 2000 > >If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Gnome developers must be=20 >feeling pretty flattered right now. > >On Wednesday a collection of software developers and businesses associated= =20 >with KDE, the graphic user interface program designed to improve the user= =20 >friendliness of the GNU/Linux operating system, banded together at the Las= =20 >Vegas Comdex show to announce the creation of the KDE League. > >Although the press conference had absolutely nothing to do with the Gnome= =20 >project, a separate Linux user interface effort whose developers and users= =20 >have maintained a spirited rivalry with the KDE camp for two years=20 >running, the timing was unfortunate. After all, it was only three months=20 >ago that Gnome developers and business partners were joining together at=20 >the San Jose Linux World to announce a similar cross-industry effort=20 >dubbed the Gnome Foundation. The fact that a number of companies, such as= =20 >IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HWP) and Compaq (CPQ), had representatives at= =20 >both press conferences added to the feeling of d=E9j=E0 vu. > >Despite the similarities, organizers of Wednesday's event did their best=20 >to distance the two efforts. > >Making the best of it > >"This is not a reaction to the Gnome Foundation," said Andreas Pour,=20 >president of KDE.com and one of the chief organizers of the KDE League.=20 >"In fact, it's something that's been in the works (for) over a year." > >The KDE League does differ from the Gnome Foundation in a number of ways.= =20 >Unlike the Gnome Foundation, which according to early drafts of its=20 >mission statement will "coordinate releases and determine which projects=20 >are part of Gnome," the KDE League promises to have minimal involvement in= =20 >the design and developmental politics inside the KDE project. > >The primary purpose of the League, according to KDE League President Chris= =20 >Schlaeger, is to unify existing publicity and marketing efforts related to= =20 >KDE, not influence the future direction of interface development. > >"Anybody who wants to contribute to KDE can do so by taking part in the=20 >well-established model for contributing to KDE," says Schlaeger. "The KDE= =20 >League does nothing to change that process in any form." > >Matthias Dalheimer, a leading KDE developer, said via email that the KDE=20 >project, while still trying to maintain its independence from the=20 >businesses participating in the KDE League, welcomes the support. > >"We have been criticized in the past for (having) bad PR, not being able=20 >to communicate our achievements, etc.," wrote Dalheimer. "Sometimes, our=20 >press releases were two weeks late ... Sometimes we did not have one at=20 >all. The KDE League is supposed to remedy this. It raises both funds and=20 >competence in marketing because of the involvement of a number of=20 >companies that know how to market software." > >Compatibility issues > >Nevertheless, Wednesday's conference had one element that seemed to imply= =20 >a significant shift in the future work of Dalheimer and other KDE=20 >developers. IBM, a charter KDE League member, announced that its own=20 >developers have been working to port voice recognition software to the KDE= =20 >interface. > >The company said in a statement that its developers had been working in=20 >conjunction with MandrakeSoft, a Linux distribution company, and=20 >Trolltech, a Norwegian company that has overseen much of the development=20 >on the Qt library, a major KDE component, to make IBM's ViaVoice software= =20 >compatible with KDE. IBM has officially supported a Linux version of=20 >ViaVoice since April 1999, but Wednesday marks the first time the=20 >technology has been available for KDE. > >For the moment, says Trolltech President Erik Eng, ViaVoice will focus on= =20 >desktop versions of the GNU/Linux operating system. Given the limited real= =20 >estate available on most mobile devices, however, the voice recognition=20 >technology seems to be a natural problem solver for mobile device=20 >designers. Indeed, Trolltech announced at Comdex the official release of=20 >Qt embedded, an embedded version of the Qt library that should speed KDE=20 >development for handheld and other mobile computing devices. > >"I would not be surprised to see ViaVoice and KDE on embedded devices in=20 >2001," says Eng. "The technology is there. It's just a question of putting= =20 >it together." > >ViaVoice recognition certainly gives the older KDE project a chance to=20 >play lead dog again in its race with Linux rival Gnome. According to an=20 >IBM spokesperson, the company is still in talks with the Gnome Foundation= =20 >about porting ViaVoice to that interface. > >KDE.com's Pour said he looks forward to a more concrete announcement about= =20 >voice recognition software for embedded versions of KDE at the New York=20 >Linuxworld in January. In the meantime, he preferred to downplay the=20 >Gnome-KDE rivalry that has provided so much fodder for the open source=20 >media over the past two years. > >"Four percent of the desktop market today already uses Linux," says Pour,= =20 >citing recent statistics from International Data Corp. "Our goal is not to= =20 >compete over that 4 percent. Our goal is to attack the 96 percent that=20 >still use proprietary software, not to mention the almost 100 percent of=20 >the mobile device market that still relies on proprietary software." CHEN PR, Inc. 1601 Trapelo Road Waltham, Mass. 02451 P: 781-466-8282 F: 781-466-8989 From bheffner@chenpr.com Tue Nov 14 09:53:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B22B2BCE8 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:53:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 102; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:49:03 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:55:47 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114095654.0250cc90@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:59:41 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org, kjameson@chenpr.com, bnashawaty@chenpr.com From: "Barbara Heffner" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] the451.com on GNOME election Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Congrats everyone.  Any advice on Florida would be appreciated.=20


From The451.com
Gnome's Miguel de Icaza wins election
Rachel Chalmers
GMT Nov 11, 2000, 02:34 AM | ET Nov 10, 2000, 09:34 PM | PT Nov 10, 2000, 06:34 PM

San Francisco - Charismatic Helix Code founder Miguel de Icaza has been elected by a landslide =96 to the 11-member board of the Gnome Foundation. The Foundation was established in August to guide the development of Gnome, a powerful, component-based graphical user interface for Unix. Gnome's advocates would like to establish the software as the standard Unix desktop, and after winning the support of Sun and Hewlett-Packard, they're well on their way.

Gnome began life as part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project. It has many ardent supporters, but no one person can claim more credit for its popularity than de Icaza himself, a former university systems administrator from Mexico, now developing ambitious applications for Gnome as well as evangelizing the technology at conferences around the world.

Not surprisingly, then, de Icaza won the most votes of any candidate =96 269 of 330 valid ballots. His colleague Frederico Quintero also made the cut. Red Hat's Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor claimed two seats on the board. X veteran Jim Gettys won a place for Compaq, and Linux ease-of-use startup Eazel got four of its employees elected =96 Bart Decrem, Dan Mueth, Maciej Stachowiak and Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. The W3C's Daniel Veillard and Sun's John Heard round out the team.

The Gnome community seemed satisfied with the results. The board is balanced across the major contributing companies and exhibits a nice combination of specialized talents. As well as Ghostscript and X, the GNU tool kit is represented by Taylor and the documentation team by Mueth.

Even Bruce Perens, who fell short of election by 44 votes, was pleased with the 90 votes he did receive. "I did pretty well considering that I haven't been an active Gnome developer up to now," he wrote.

If the Gnome Foundation works, Gnome will be the most democratic free software project ever. Now, if only we could get them to run the USA...
Back

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From bheffner@chenpr.com Fri Nov 17 12:35:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297522D3B5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:35:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 351; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:30:37 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:37:41 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001117123750.0259c700@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:40:07 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org From: "Barbara Heffner" Cc: emcshane@chenpr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] Upside: KDE League Looks Much like Gnome Foundation Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Upside article on the recent announcement. >http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/print-it?id=3D3a1445951&t=3D/texis/mvm/open= _season >Upside >Open Season: KDE League looks much like Gnome Foundation >by Sam Williams >November 17, 2000 > >If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Gnome developers must be=20 >feeling pretty flattered right now. > >On Wednesday a collection of software developers and businesses associated= =20 >with KDE, the graphic user interface program designed to improve the user= =20 >friendliness of the GNU/Linux operating system, banded together at the Las= =20 >Vegas Comdex show to announce the creation of the KDE League. > >Although the press conference had absolutely nothing to do with the Gnome= =20 >project, a separate Linux user interface effort whose developers and users= =20 >have maintained a spirited rivalry with the KDE camp for two years=20 >running, the timing was unfortunate. After all, it was only three months=20 >ago that Gnome developers and business partners were joining together at=20 >the San Jose Linux World to announce a similar cross-industry effort=20 >dubbed the Gnome Foundation. The fact that a number of companies, such as= =20 >IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HWP) and Compaq (CPQ), had representatives at= =20 >both press conferences added to the feeling of d=E9j=E0 vu. > >Despite the similarities, organizers of Wednesday's event did their best=20 >to distance the two efforts. > >Making the best of it > >"This is not a reaction to the Gnome Foundation," said Andreas Pour,=20 >president of KDE.com and one of the chief organizers of the KDE League.=20 >"In fact, it's something that's been in the works (for) over a year." > >The KDE League does differ from the Gnome Foundation in a number of ways.= =20 >Unlike the Gnome Foundation, which according to early drafts of its=20 >mission statement will "coordinate releases and determine which projects=20 >are part of Gnome," the KDE League promises to have minimal involvement in= =20 >the design and developmental politics inside the KDE project. > >The primary purpose of the League, according to KDE League President Chris= =20 >Schlaeger, is to unify existing publicity and marketing efforts related to= =20 >KDE, not influence the future direction of interface development. > >"Anybody who wants to contribute to KDE can do so by taking part in the=20 >well-established model for contributing to KDE," says Schlaeger. "The KDE= =20 >League does nothing to change that process in any form." > >Matthias Dalheimer, a leading KDE developer, said via email that the KDE=20 >project, while still trying to maintain its independence from the=20 >businesses participating in the KDE League, welcomes the support. > >"We have been criticized in the past for (having) bad PR, not being able=20 >to communicate our achievements, etc.," wrote Dalheimer. "Sometimes, our=20 >press releases were two weeks late ... Sometimes we did not have one at=20 >all. The KDE League is supposed to remedy this. It raises both funds and=20 >competence in marketing because of the involvement of a number of=20 >companies that know how to market software." > >Compatibility issues > >Nevertheless, Wednesday's conference had one element that seemed to imply= =20 >a significant shift in the future work of Dalheimer and other KDE=20 >developers. IBM, a charter KDE League member, announced that its own=20 >developers have been working to port voice recognition software to the KDE= =20 >interface. > >The company said in a statement that its developers had been working in=20 >conjunction with MandrakeSoft, a Linux distribution company, and=20 >Trolltech, a Norwegian company that has overseen much of the development=20 >on the Qt library, a major KDE component, to make IBM's ViaVoice software= =20 >compatible with KDE. IBM has officially supported a Linux version of=20 >ViaVoice since April 1999, but Wednesday marks the first time the=20 >technology has been available for KDE. > >For the moment, says Trolltech President Erik Eng, ViaVoice will focus on= =20 >desktop versions of the GNU/Linux operating system. Given the limited real= =20 >estate available on most mobile devices, however, the voice recognition=20 >technology seems to be a natural problem solver for mobile device=20 >designers. Indeed, Trolltech announced at Comdex the official release of=20 >Qt embedded, an embedded version of the Qt library that should speed KDE=20 >development for handheld and other mobile computing devices. > >"I would not be surprised to see ViaVoice and KDE on embedded devices in=20 >2001," says Eng. "The technology is there. It's just a question of putting= =20 >it together." > >ViaVoice recognition certainly gives the older KDE project a chance to=20 >play lead dog again in its race with Linux rival Gnome. According to an=20 >IBM spokesperson, the company is still in talks with the Gnome Foundation= =20 >about porting ViaVoice to that interface. > >KDE.com's Pour said he looks forward to a more concrete announcement about= =20 >voice recognition software for embedded versions of KDE at the New York=20 >Linuxworld in January. In the meantime, he preferred to downplay the=20 >Gnome-KDE rivalry that has provided so much fodder for the open source=20 >media over the past two years. > >"Four percent of the desktop market today already uses Linux," says Pour,= =20 >citing recent statistics from International Data Corp. "Our goal is not to= =20 >compete over that 4 percent. Our goal is to attack the 96 percent that=20 >still use proprietary software, not to mention the almost 100 percent of=20 >the mobile device market that still relies on proprietary software." CHEN PR, Inc. 1601 Trapelo Road Waltham, Mass. 02451 P: 781-466-8282 F: 781-466-8989 From bheffner@chenpr.com Tue Nov 14 09:53:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B22B2BCE8 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:53:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 102; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:49:03 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:55:47 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114095654.0250cc90@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:59:41 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org, kjameson@chenpr.com, bnashawaty@chenpr.com From: "Barbara Heffner" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] the451.com on GNOME election Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Congrats everyone.  Any advice on Florida would be appreciated.=20


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Gnome's Miguel de Icaza wins election
Rachel Chalmers
GMT Nov 11, 2000, 02:34 AM | ET Nov 10, 2000, 09:34 PM | PT Nov 10, 2000, 06:34 PM

San Francisco - Charismatic Helix Code founder Miguel de Icaza has been elected by a landslide =96 to the 11-member board of the Gnome Foundation. The Foundation was established in August to guide the development of Gnome, a powerful, component-based graphical user interface for Unix. Gnome's advocates would like to establish the software as the standard Unix desktop, and after winning the support of Sun and Hewlett-Packard, they're well on their way.

Gnome began life as part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project. It has many ardent supporters, but no one person can claim more credit for its popularity than de Icaza himself, a former university systems administrator from Mexico, now developing ambitious applications for Gnome as well as evangelizing the technology at conferences around the world.

Not surprisingly, then, de Icaza won the most votes of any candidate =96 269 of 330 valid ballots. His colleague Frederico Quintero also made the cut. Red Hat's Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor claimed two seats on the board. X veteran Jim Gettys won a place for Compaq, and Linux ease-of-use startup Eazel got four of its employees elected =96 Bart Decrem, Dan Mueth, Maciej Stachowiak and Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. The W3C's Daniel Veillard and Sun's John Heard round out the team.

The Gnome community seemed satisfied with the results. The board is balanced across the major contributing companies and exhibits a nice combination of specialized talents. As well as Ghostscript and X, the GNU tool kit is represented by Taylor and the documentation team by Mueth.

Even Bruce Perens, who fell short of election by 44 votes, was pleased with the 90 votes he did receive. "I did pretty well considering that I haven't been an active Gnome developer up to now," he wrote.

If the Gnome Foundation works, Gnome will be the most democratic free software project ever. Now, if only we could get them to run the USA...
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From bheffner@chenpr.com Fri Nov 17 12:35:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org Received: from mail.chenpr.com (mail.chenpr.com [63.98.221.11]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297522D3B5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:35:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from outbound.chenpr.com ([192.168.1.13]) by mail.chenpr.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 351; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:30:37 -0500 Received: from 192.168.1.82 by outbound.chenpr.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:37:41 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001117123750.0259c700@mail.chenpr.com> X-Sender: bheffner@mail.chenpr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:40:07 -0500 To: foundation-announcement@gnome.org From: "Barbara Heffner" Cc: emcshane@chenpr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [fdn-ann] Upside: KDE League Looks Much like Gnome Foundation Sender: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: foundation-announcement-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Loop: foundation-announcement@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Upside article on the recent announcement. >http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/print-it?id=3D3a1445951&t=3D/texis/mvm/open= _season >Upside >Open Season: KDE League looks much like Gnome Foundation >by Sam Williams >November 17, 2000 > >If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Gnome developers must be=20 >feeling pretty flattered right now. > >On Wednesday a collection of software developers and businesses associated= =20 >with KDE, the graphic user interface program designed to improve the user= =20 >friendliness of the GNU/Linux operating system, banded together at the Las= =20 >Vegas Comdex show to announce the creation of the KDE League. > >Although the press conference had absolutely nothing to do with the Gnome= =20 >project, a separate Linux user interface effort whose developers and users= =20 >have maintained a spirited rivalry with the KDE camp for two years=20 >running, the timing was unfortunate. After all, it was only three months=20 >ago that Gnome developers and business partners were joining together at=20 >the San Jose Linux World to announce a similar cross-industry effort=20 >dubbed the Gnome Foundation. The fact that a number of companies, such as= =20 >IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HWP) and Compaq (CPQ), had representatives at= =20 >both press conferences added to the feeling of d=E9j=E0 vu. > >Despite the similarities, organizers of Wednesday's event did their best=20 >to distance the two efforts. > >Making the best of it > >"This is not a reaction to the Gnome Foundation," said Andreas Pour,=20 >president of KDE.com and one of the chief organizers of the KDE League.=20 >"In fact, it's something that's been in the works (for) over a year." > >The KDE League does differ from the Gnome Foundation in a number of ways.= =20 >Unlike the Gnome Foundation, which according to early drafts of its=20 >mission statement will "coordinate releases and determine which projects=20 >are part of Gnome," the KDE League promises to have minimal involvement in= =20 >the design and developmental politics inside the KDE project. > >The primary purpose of the League, according to KDE League President Chris= =20 >Schlaeger, is to unify existing publicity and marketing efforts related to= =20 >KDE, not influence the future direction of interface development. > >"Anybody who wants to contribute to KDE can do so by taking part in the=20 >well-established model for contributing to KDE," says Schlaeger. "The KDE= =20 >League does nothing to change that process in any form." > >Matthias Dalheimer, a leading KDE developer, said via email that the KDE=20 >project, while still trying to maintain its independence from the=20 >businesses participating in the KDE League, welcomes the support. > >"We have been criticized in the past for (having) bad PR, not being able=20 >to communicate our achievements, etc.," wrote Dalheimer. "Sometimes, our=20 >press releases were two weeks late ... Sometimes we did not have one at=20 >all. The KDE League is supposed to remedy this. It raises both funds and=20 >competence in marketing because of the involvement of a number of=20 >companies that know how to market software." > >Compatibility issues > >Nevertheless, Wednesday's conference had one element that seemed to imply= =20 >a significant shift in the future work of Dalheimer and other KDE=20 >developers. IBM, a charter KDE League member, announced that its own=20 >developers have been working to port voice recognition software to the KDE= =20 >interface. > >The company said in a statement that its developers had been working in=20 >conjunction with MandrakeSoft, a Linux distribution company, and=20 >Trolltech, a Norwegian company that has overseen much of the development=20 >on the Qt library, a major KDE component, to make IBM's ViaVoice software= =20 >compatible with KDE. IBM has officially supported a Linux version of=20 >ViaVoice since April 1999, but Wednesday marks the first time the=20 >technology has been available for KDE. > >For the moment, says Trolltech President Erik Eng, ViaVoice will focus on= =20 >desktop versions of the GNU/Linux operating system. Given the limited real= =20 >estate available on most mobile devices, however, the voice recognition=20 >technology seems to be a natural problem solver for mobile device=20 >designers. Indeed, Trolltech announced at Comdex the official release of=20 >Qt embedded, an embedded version of the Qt library that should speed KDE=20 >development for handheld and other mobile computing devices. > >"I would not be surprised to see ViaVoice and KDE on embedded devices in=20 >2001," says Eng. "The technology is there. It's just a question of putting= =20 >it together." > >ViaVoice recognition certainly gives the older KDE project a chance to=20 >play lead dog again in its race with Linux rival Gnome. According to an=20 >IBM spokesperson, the company is still in talks with the Gnome Foundation= =20 >about porting ViaVoice to that interface. > >KDE.com's Pour said he looks forward to a more concrete announcement about= =20 >voice recognition software for embedded versions of KDE at the New York=20 >Linuxworld in January. In the meantime, he preferred to downplay the=20 >Gnome-KDE rivalry that has provided so much fodder for the open source=20 >media over the past two years. > >"Four percent of the desktop market today already uses Linux," says Pour,= =20 >citing recent statistics from International Data Corp. "Our goal is not to= =20 >compete over that 4 percent. Our goal is to attack the 96 percent that=20 >still use proprietary software, not to mention the almost 100 percent of=20 >the mobile device market that still relies on proprietary software." CHEN PR, Inc. 1601 Trapelo Road Waltham, Mass. 02451 P: 781-466-8282 F: 781-466-8989