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gnomeweb-wml r6216 - in trunk: . www.gnome.org/press/releases

Author: bolsh
Date: Mon Jul  7 10:28:56 2008
New Revision: 6216
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=6216&view=rev

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2008-07-06  Dave Neary  <bolsh gnome org>

	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/stormy_executivedir.wml: Add new press
	release for GUADEC announcement (unlinked for the moment).




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+<title>GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director</title>
+<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
+</head>
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+<body>
+
+<h1>GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director</h1>
+<p><strong>The GNOME Foundation Aims to Attract New Users and Developers, 
+Grow Project, and Give the World a Free and Open Source Desktop 
+that Rocks</strong></p>
+
+<p>Istanbul, Turkey, July 7, 2008: The GNOME Foundation today announced 
+the hiring of Stormy Peters as Executive Director.  Stormy, a well-known 
+industry analyst with extensive experience at Hewlett Packard 
+and OpenLogic, will work on accelerating the adoption of GNOME and 
+strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and 
+community contributors. "Hiring Stormy represents a major step for 
+GNOME", said Luis Villa, a Director of the GNOME Foundation. "With her 
+unique background and experience, she'll be a natural at growing industry 
+support for the project and connecting interested parties to our 
+community."</p>
+
+<p>
+The GNOME community has an active global developer base focused on 
+providing an easy to understand user experience on PCs and mobile 
+devices. It also has support from a broad range of industry players, 
+from some of the world's largest enterprise software companies to 
+small consultancies. Hiring Stormy will allow the Foundation to extend 
+its outreach to all of these parties, as well as increasing contact 
+with new constituencies like mobile developers and governments 
+considering deploying GNOME.
+</p>
+
+<p>Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer 
+at Sun and GNOME Foundation Advisory Board Member says, "As a key 
+supporter of GNOME, especially in connection with OpenSolaris, Sun is 
+delighted to welcome Stormy to her new position. It is extremely 
+gratifying to see the GNOME Foundation grow to the point where it needs 
+an Executive Director to drive additional industry support and further 
+increase  adoption of GNOME. We look forward to working with Stormy in 
+her new role to help her achieve this goal." 
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During the past year there's been tremendous growth in the number of 
+devices that ship with GNOME and other free and open source software 
+installed from laptops to phones, and even GPS devices. An executive 
+director will help GNOME capitalize on this momentum, exactly at a time 
+when more of the world is realizing the value of free and open source 
+software, and understanding the necessity of a great user experience as 
+part of that platform.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Stormy's extensive experience, combining industry expertise with 
+community background, will be a perfect fit for GNOME. "Stormy Peters 
+is one of the most well respected members of the open source industry 
+and community." says Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux 
+Foundation, "Her unique skills of working with both community volunteers 
+and commercial industry members across a variety of open source projects 
+will serve the GNOME Foundation well." Stormy was former head of the 
+Open Source Program Office at Hewlett Packard, and director of the 
+OpenLogic Expert Community, roles which give her a deep understanding of 
+the  industry's interest in free and open source software.
+</p>
+
+<p>She was one of the founding members of the GNOME Foundation Advisory 
+Board in 2000.  She has remained involved with GNOME since then, 
+keynoting the GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) in 
+England in 2007.  Stormy is enthusiastic about joining the GNOME 
+Foundation full time.  "I'm very excited to have the chance to help the 
+GNOME community show the world how the GNOME desktop is changing the 
+future of computing." Stormy will continue in an advisory role at 
+OpenLogic.
+</p>
+
+<h3>About Stormy Peters</h3>
+
+<p>
+Stormy Peters joins the GNOME Foundation from OpenLogic where she 
+founded and managed their OpenLogic Expert Community. Previously, 
+Stormy worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the 
+Open Source Program Office where she was responsible for HP's open 
+source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy joined HP as a 
+software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from 
+Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of Open Source 
+Software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business 
+Conference and the O'Reilly conferences, as well as government 
+organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. Stormy 
+is involved in GNOME and free and open source software because it is 
+changing the world and the community is full of smart, passionate 
+people!
+</p>
+
+<h3>About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation</h3>
+
+<p>
+The GNOME desktop is a free, easy to use, accessible and 
+internationalized desktop for Linux and Unix-based operating systems 
+used by millions. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and 
+Unix distributions, and is popular with both large existing corporate 
+deployments and small business and home users. GNOME also includes a 
+complete development environment which provides the core platform for 
+thousands of applications.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the 
+advancement of GNOME, comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and 
+industry-leading companies. The Foundation is a member directed, 
+non-profit organization that provides financial, organizational and 
+legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and 
+roadmap. The GNOME Foundation is supporting the pursuit of Software 
+Freedom through the innovative, accessible, and beautiful user 
+experience created by GNOME contributors around the world. It's a fun 
+and inviting community, so if you're reading this and wondering what 
+you can do to help promote Software Freedom, contributing to GNOME is a 
+great way to start! More information about GNOME and the GNOME 
+Foundation can be found at www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org. 
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="head-3b6920c012555df321e6cbf0358952c61aace39d">Media Enquiries</h2>
+<ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><p class="line862">
+ GNOME Foundation Executive Director<br/>
+ Stormy Peters<br>
+ Email: <a class="mailto" href="mailto:gnome-press-contact gnome org">gnome-press-contact gnome org</a><br>
+ Phone: +1-617-206-3947
+
+</p></li></ul><span class="anchor" id="bottom"></span>
+
+
+</body>
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+</html>
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