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[gnomeweb-wml] Added press release and frontpage news about software freedom day

commit 94de7c14263c209ecdb2b8647bf281a3f0e343e8
Author: Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>
Date:   Sat Sep 19 14:06:21 2009 +0200

    Added press release and frontpage news about software freedom day

 www.gnome.org/index.wml                            |   15 +++
 .../press/releases/2009-09-softwarefreedomday.wml  |  100 ++++++++++++++++++++
 www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am           |    3 +-
 3 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/www.gnome.org/index.wml b/www.gnome.org/index.wml
index 1537888..7cd8641 100644
--- a/www.gnome.org/index.wml
+++ b/www.gnome.org/index.wml
@@ -19,6 +19,21 @@
 
 <div id="bottomLeftLeft">
 <h2>Latest News</h2>
+<h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-softwarefreedomday.html";>GNOME promotes Software Freedom Day</a><h3>
+<i>September 19, 2009</i>
+<p>The GNOME Community is a excited to promote and participate in
+Software Freedom Day. Around the world, GNOME community members will
+be celebrating software freedom and the work that GNOME has done to
+make a free desktop accessible for all.</p>
+
+<p>Software Freedom is about a technology future that we can trust, that
+is sustainable, and that supports the basic human freedoms. Untrusted
+electoral systems can lead to civil unrest and a lack of trust in
+governing bodies. Proprietary data formats can mean lockout to
+accessing our own information! Software Freedom can be maintained by
+transparent systems (such as Free and Open Source Software) that are
+based on open, secure and sustainable standards including data formats
+and communication protocols.</p>
 
 <h3><a href="http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2009-Q2.pdf";>GNOME Report Q2 2009</a></h3>
 <p>The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q2 2009 Quarterly report. In it you can learn how our new system administration team is already hard at work on projects like switching the version control system to git. The bugsquad team closed 12,549 bugs in Q2. The release teamput out 2.26.0 and announced GNOME 3.0. The marketing team announced plans for a GNOME store, a press team and a GNOME 3.0 campaign. And our extended community raised $12,392 through Friends of GNOME! <a href="http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2009-Q2.pdf";>Read about all this and more</a> - our members have been busy working on a free desktop accessible for everyone!</p>
diff --git a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-softwarefreedomday.wml b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-softwarefreedomday.wml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8412348
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-09-softwarefreedomday.wml
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
+<html>
+
+<head>
+<title>GNOME promotes Software Freedom Day</title>
+<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h1>GNOME promotes Software Freedom Day</h1>
+
+<p>The GNOME Community is a excited to promote and participate in
+Software Freedom Day. Around the world, GNOME community members will
+be celebrating software freedom and the work that GNOME has done to
+make a free desktop accessible for all.</p>
+
+<p>Software Freedom is about a technology future that we can trust, that
+is sustainable, and that supports the basic human freedoms. Untrusted
+electoral systems can lead to civil unrest and a lack of trust in
+governing bodies. Proprietary data formats can mean lockout to
+accessing our own information! Software Freedom can be maintained by
+transparent systems (such as Free and Open Source Software) that are
+based on open, secure and sustainable standards including data formats
+and communication protocols.</p>
+
+<p>In addition, software freedom is about making sure that software can
+be used by all humanity regardless of the language they speak, the
+amount of money they have or their physical abilities. And this is
+where GNOME excels. To provide free software to everyone, GNOME is:</p>
+
+
+<h2>Free.</h2>
+
+<p>GNOME is Free Software and part of the GNU project, dedicated to
+giving users and developers the ultimate level of control over their
+desktops, their software, and their data. Find out more about the GNU
+project and Free Software at gnu.org.</p>
+
+<h2>Usable.</h2>
+
+<p>GNOME understands that usability is about creating software that is
+easy for everyone to use. GNOME's community of professional and
+volunteer usability experts have created
+Free Software's first and only Human Interface Guidelines, and all
+core GNOME software is adopting these principles. Find out more about
+GNOME and usability at the GNOME Usability Project.</p>
+
+<h2>Accessible</h2>
+
+<p>Free Software is about enabling software freedom for everyone,
+including users and developers with disabilities. GNOME's
+Accessibility framework is the result of several years of effort, and
+makes GNOME the most accessible desktop for any Unix platform. Find
+out more at the <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/accessibility/";>GNOME Accessibility Project</a>.</p>
+
+<h2>International</h2>
+
+<p>GNOME is used, developed and documented in dozens of languages, and we
+strive to ensure that every piece of GNOME software can be translated
+into all languages. During the last GNOME Development cycle, the GNOME
+Desktop was translated into over 40 languages!</p>
+
+<h2>Developer-friendly</h2>
+
+<p>Developers are not tied to a single language with GNOME. You can use
+C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, and C#, to produce high-quality
+applications that integrate smoothly into the rest of your UNIX or
+GNU/Linux (commonly referred to as Linux) desktop.</p>
+
+<h2>Organized</h2>
+
+<p>GNOME strives to be an organized community, with a foundation of
+several hundred members, usability, accessibility, and QA teams, and
+an elected board. GNOME releases are defined by the GNOME Release Team
+every six months.</p>
+
+<h2>Supported</h2>
+
+<p>Beyond the worldwide GNOME Community, GNOME is supported by the
+leading companies using GNU/Linux and UNIX and many free software
+projects, including Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software
+Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla
+Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center,
+Sugar Labs and Sun Microsystems. GNOME is proud to be the default Desktop
+Environment that powers popular distributions including Ubuntu,
+Fedora and OpenSolaris.</p>
+
+<h2>A community</h2>
+
+<p>Perhaps more than anything else, GNOME is a worldwide community of
+volunteers who hack, translate, design, QA, and generally have fun
+together.</p>
+
+<p>Please join the GNOME community in celebrating the achievements the
+free software world has made.</p>
+</body>
+
+</html>
diff --git a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
index 5f04a4f..13127b6 100644
--- a/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
+++ b/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ page_SCRIPTS = \
 	2008-12-sugarlabs.html \
 	2009-06-desktop-summit-platinum.html \
 	2009-06-desktop-summit-keynotes.html \
-	2009-08-desktop-summit-conclusion.html
+	2009-08-desktop-summit-conclusion.html \
+	2009-09-softwarefreedomday.html
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common
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