The GNOME Family

GNOME is a global effort, with many contributors all over the world. GNOME is a success because of its contributors and users. This section lists the web sites and conferences where you can learn more about GNOME, as well as other organizations that work with GNOME.

Web Sites
www.gnome.org

The primary web site for GNOME users. It contains release information, downloads, and documentation.

library.gnome.org

The complete source for all GNOME documentation. It contains all of the user and developer documentation produced by GNOME, automatically built and updated for each release.

foundation.gnome.org

The web site for the GNOME Foundation, the not-for-profit foundation that oversees the development of GNOME.

bugzilla.gnome.org

The GNOME bug trackers. Use this site to submit a bug report or feature request, or to track the status of a report.

live.gnome.org

The GNOME wiki. Many projects within GNOME now use the wiki as their primary web space. In additional, the wiki is often used to sketch out future development.

developer.gnome.org

The old website for developer information. This once contained developer documentation and information about the usability, documentation, and translation teams. The content on this site has since been largely superseded by library.gnome.org and live.gnome.org. There may still be some information on this site that is not found elsewhere.

mail.gnome.org

Information on GNOME mailing lists. This site contains full archives of all GNOME mailing lists.

git.gnome.org

The GNOME Git repository, tracking all GNOME source code back to the inception of the project.

Mailing Lists
gnome-list

The primary mailing list for GNOME users.

gnome-devel-list

Information and questions about development using the GNOME platform.

gnome-love

The first place to go to get involved with GNOME.

gnome-accessibility-list

Information on accessibility in GNOME applications.

gnome-doc-list

Information on writing documentation for GNOME applications.

gnome-i18n

Information about internationalization and localization of GNOME applications.

usability

Information on usability for GNOME applications.

Conferences
GUADEC

The primary conference for GNOME users and developers. GUADEC is hosted annually in May or June. Each year, it is hosted in a different European city, making it an excellent excuse to see more of Europe. GUADEC features talks aimed at users, developers, and vendors.

The GNOME Summit

The hacker get-together. The Summit is geared primarily at existing GNOME developers, although there is often useful information for new developers. The Summit is hosted annually in Boston.

GNOME.conf.au

A casual get-together hosted annually at linux.conf.au.

Other Organizations
freedesktop.org

The collaborative effort for interoperability and shared technology among desktop environments. Through freedesktop.org, GNOME works with projects such as KDE and XFCE to make it easier for application developers to provide better experiences for their users.

Mozilla

The free web engine, and a whole lot more. GNOME maintains close ties to the Mozilla development team to provide an overall better user interface.

OpenOffice.org

The free office suite. GNOME works with the OpenOffice.org development team to help provide a more unified interface when using the free office suite on GNOME.

Free Software Foundation

Freedom. Established in 1985, the Free Software Foundation has worked to create a complete free operating systems, giving its users the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute their software. As part of the GNU project, GNOME aims to provide a fully free desktop environment.