[fdn-ann] Media advisory crossed the wire

["Cecile Roux" <croux chenpr com>]

Hello,
The below and attached media advisory crossed the wire at 11:48 am PDT.
Please let us know if you have any questions
Best,
-Cecile



August 9, 2000 

ADVISORY

GNOME Project Press Conference at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo

WHAT:

   

Miguel de Icaza, founder of the
GNOME project, and other prominent industry executives will discuss plans
for the evolution of the GNOME project.  Press and analysts in
attendance will have the opportunity to participate in a
question-and-answer session following introductory remarks.

WHEN:

   

Tuesday, August 15, 2000, noon -
1:30pm PDT

WHERE:

  

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Room
K, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA

        

WHO:

    

Miguel de Icaza, Founder of
the GNOME project and Helix Code, Inc.;
Brian Behlendorf, CTO and Co-founder of Collab.Net;
Jim Gettys, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Compaq Computer
Corporation;
Mike Boich, President and CEO of Eazel, Inc.;
Linas Vepstas, CEO, Gnumatic Incorporated;
Daniel Frye, Program Director, IBM’s Linux Technology Center;
Bob Young, Chairman of Red Hat, Inc.;
Marco Boerries, Vice President and General Manager, Sun Microsystems,
Inc.; and
Chris DiBona, Director of Marketing, VA Linux Systems.

DETAILS:

        

The
GNOME project has built a complete, free and easy-to-use open source
platform desktop environment, as well as a powerful application framework
for software developers.  GNOME runs on Linux and other UNIX and
UNIX-like operating systems.  For more information, visit
www.gnome.org.


To attend, please contact:
Barbara Heffner, bheffner@chenpr.com, (781) 466-8282 or Cecile Roux,
croux@chenpr.com, (650) 357-8749, both of CHEN PR.

GNOME Media Advisory 8.9.00.doc