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Luis Villa | 7 Jul 15:54

hiring Stormy Peters as executive director

Hi, all-

It is my pleasure to announce that the Board has decided to hire
Stormy Peters as Executive Director of the Foundation. We've been in
talks with her for some time and feel that she has an ideal
combination of skills and background to fill the role, having been
involved with GNOME and with the open source business community for a
long time. For the fuller story on her bio, check out the press
release, linked blow.

Stormy's responsibilities will include (among other things)
strengthening and growing the GNOME Foundation's infrastructure,
working with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board members, GNOME
membership, and other GNOME supporters to create an awesome free and
open source desktop that is easy to use and provide a strong
development platform, and accelerating the adoption of GNOME and
strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and
community contributors. No small task but we think she's up to it.

If you're in Istanbul this week, please say hi to Stormy and welcome
her on  board. If you're not in Istanbul, well, feel free to welcome
her on list or ask questions as well (though of course we're several
hours ahead of many of you, so we might not be as prompt as usual.)

Looking forward to this new era for the Foundation-
Luis and the Board
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Vincent Untz | 15 Jul 11:57
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GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

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, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of
Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade.

While there were other excellent bids, the GNOME foundation and KDE e.V.
have settled on Gran Canaria because of its position as Port to Africa
and the excellent circumstances for holding such an event there.
Unfortunately, having three proposals, two have to be rejected. The
proposals from Tampere in Finland and Coruna in Spain were close
contenders. Both foundations would like to thank those organisers for
the work they have put into their proposals and encourage them to
consider their cities for conferences in future years.

Read the full press release:
http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html

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