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gnomeweb-wml r6543 - in trunk: . www.gnome.org www.gnome.org/press/releases

Author: vuntz
Date: Mon Dec 22 20:01:32 2008
New Revision: 6543
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=6543&view=rev

Log:
2008-12-22  Vincent Untz  <vuntz gnome org>

	* www.gnome.org/index.wml:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.wml:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml: add news & PR about Sugar
	Labs joining the Foundation


Added:
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.wml
Modified:
   trunk/ChangeLog
   trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml	Mon Dec 22 20:01:32 2008
@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@
 <div id="bottomLeftLeft">
 <h2>Latest News</h2>
 
+<h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html";>Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation</a></h3>
+<p>Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs creates software for young children used on platforms like the One Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.</p>
+
 <h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-10-motorola-google.html";>Motorola and Google join the GNOME Foundation</a></h3>
 <p>The GNOME Foundation continues to strengthen its industry support, with Google and Motorola joining the GNOME Foundation as Advisory Board members.</p>
 
 <h3><a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/";>GNOME 2.24 Released!</a></h3>
 <p>The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release. Some highlights of GNOME 2.24 are a better support for instant messaging and for audio/video conferencing, but also the first official release of the GNOME Mobile platform! Learn more about GNOME 2.24 through the detailed <a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/";>release notes</a>.</p>
 
-<h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html";>GUADEC and Akademy to be co-located in Gran Canaria in 2009</a></h3>
-<p>The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers.</p>
-
 </div>
 
 <div id="bottomLeftRight">

Added: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.wml
==============================================================================
--- (empty file)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.wml	Mon Dec 22 20:01:32 2008
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+<?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>Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation</title>
+<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h1>Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation</h1>
+
+<p>
+BOSTON, Mass â December 22, 2008 â Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom
+Conservancy, is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory
+Board. Sugar Labs creates software for young children used on platforms like
+the One Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and
+relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The resources made available by the GNOME project have been essential to
+the development of the Sugar learning platform", says Walter Bender,
+executive director of Sugar Labs. "The Sugar community looks forward to
+working more closely with the GNOME Foundation on topics such as GNOME
+Mobile and an upstream collaboration framework." Walter Bender will be
+representing Sugar Labs on the GNOME Advisory Board.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+GNOME forms the basis of many platforms such as Sugar, Maemo, and Ubuntu
+Netbook Remix, and also delivers the desktop platform offered by companies
+such as Novell, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems. GNOME is actively cooperating
+with the makers of these platforms in order to make sure that they can use
+GNOME technologies as efficiently and effectively as possible and to enable
+cross-fertilization of resources. Members of the GNOME Advisory Board help
+the GNOME Foundation work with partner companies effectively and they also
+get a chance to collaborate with each other on their use of GNOME
+technologies.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The GNOME Foundation is excited to have Sugar Labs join the advisory
+board." says Stormy Peters, executive director of the GNOME Foundation.
+"Sugar embodies the GNOME mission of making sure technology is available to
+anyone, not just technical people, regardless of culture, financial
+well-being or physical ability. The interface provided by Sugar offers an
+innovative way to interact with technology and the internet. This work is
+heavily influencing the GNOME community as they think about potential ways
+to improve GNOME in the future."
+</p>
+
+<h2>About Sugar Labs</h2>
+
+<p>
+Sugar Labs is a non-profit foundation which serves as a support
+base and gathering place for the community of educators and software
+developers who want to extend the platform and create Sugar-compatible
+applications. Sugar provides an interface to engage young children in the
+world of learning that is opened up by computers and the Internet. Sugar is
+licensed under the GPL and uses GTK+ and Telepathy.  For more information
+see <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/";>http://sugarlabs.org</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Media Enquiries</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>
+ 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>
+
+</body>
+
+</html>

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am	Mon Dec 22 20:01:32 2008
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 	2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html \
 	2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html \
 	2008-10-motorola-google.html \
-	2008-11-25-grancanaria.html
+	2008-11-25-grancanaria.html \
+	2008-12-sugarlabs.html
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml	Mon Dec 22 20:01:32 2008
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
 <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
 <tr><th align="left" colspan="2">2008</th></tr>
 <tr>
+	<td>Dec 22, 2008</td>
+	<td><a href="/press/releases/2008-12-sugarlabs.html">Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the OLPC software, is joining the GNOME Foundation</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 	<td>Nov 25, 2008</td>
 	<td><a href="/press/releases/2008-11-25-grancanaria.html">Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009 to be held July 3-11, 2009</a></td>
 </tr>
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