L’environnement GNOME fête ses dix ans. Un mois de festivités.
20 août 2007 dans Logiciels
"Tout le mouvement du Libre vous doit gratitude pour le travail accompli !" Par ces mots, le patron de Canonical (Ubuntu), Mark Shuttleworth, salue l’anniversaire fêté depuis le 15 août dernier et durant plusieurs semaines : celui des dix ans de l’environnement GNOME - GNU Network Object Model Environment -.
GNOME est né en août 1997 de l’idée de Miguel de Icaza de compiler "une série d’applications libres et conviviales ainsi que des outils de bureautique en se basant uniquement sur le logiciel libre." Dix ans plus tard, la version 2.20 de l’environnement est sur le point d’être lancée, aux côtés de plusieurs autres projets dont les environnements graphiques "dérivés" des OLPC XO, Nokia N800, OpenMoko Neo1973 et ACCESS Linux Platform.
Depuis mercredi dernier et durant un mois, les contributeurs de l’environnement graphique libre vont créer et alimenter un livre ouvert destiné à récolter dix années de souvenirs, d’histoire, de projets et de développements. Cet ouvrage commémoratif sera alimenté aux quatre coins du monde.
Mais ce n’est pas tout : les "festivités" connaîtront leur point culminant à la mi-septembre à l’occasion de la sortie de GNOME 2.20 et du Software Freedom Day (Journée de ’Libération’ du Logiciel).
Voici quelques cartes postales de bons voeux envoyées en "version originale" par plusieurs grands acteurs du Libre, parmi lesquels Novell, Access, Sun, Ubuntu et OpenedHand :
"The foundation for much of the ACCESS(tm) Linux Platform is open source GNOME technology. ACCESS is proud to be a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board, a founding member of the GNOME Mobile Initiative, and a sponsor of GUADEC. The GNOME technologies have been enabling innovation for an entire decade, and have become increasingly important in the mobile device space. We’re looking forward to the next ten years ! Happy birthday, GNOME !" - David ’Lefty’ Schlesinger, Director of Open Source Technologies, ACCESS
"10 years of GNOME is some achievement. Everyone in the free software
movement owes a huge debt of gratitude to you guys and your work, as does
every user of your desktop. So big love from Ubuntu and here’s to next 10."
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, Canonical
"Debian has been delivering GNOME releases since the very early versions, and is proud to have seen the GNOME project grow and mature over the past 10 years. Being a key component of our Operating System, we look forward to continuing to make GNOME innovations available to our users. Happy birthday !" - Jordi Mallach, Debian
"As a founding member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board, IBM congratulates the GNOME Project on their ten year anniversary. The GNOME community should be proud of their open source innovations and efforts to improve the free desktop user experience. The usability and accessibility of GNOME enabling technologies has lead IBM to deliver Eclipse based products that leverage GNOME components." - John Walicki, IBM Open Client Architect
"Imendio would not have existed if it were not for GNOME and many of our developers have been here since the beginning. We are happy to have the opportunity to join these celebrations and would like to extend our congratulations to the entire project from all of us at Imendio !" - Mikael Hallendal, CEO and co-founder, Imendio AB
"GNOME has demonstrated over the last ten years the power of free software, delivering a desktop that all people around the world can use. Novell is proud to be able to contribute to its continued success." - Ron Hovsepian, President and CEO, Novell
"We’d like to congratulate everyone involved with the GNOME project, both past and present, on the amazing achievements and progress the project has made over it’s first 10 years. We are honoured to have played a part in taking GNOME beyond the desktop and bringing the GNOME experience to new devices and users. We’re very proud to be contributors to GNOME project, a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board, a founding member of the GNOME Mobile Initiative, and a sponsor of GUADEC. Here’s to the next 10 years !" - Matthew Allum, CEO, OpenedHand
"Sun Microsystems congratulates the GNOME Foundation on ten great years. In particular, Sun and the community members involvement in the accessibility features of GNOME has been key to GNOME’s ability to be used for the Solaris(TM) Operating System and has been a key enabler to its use in other commercial settings. We look forward to participating in the GNOME community for a fruitful, accessible and Free tomorrow." - Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Selon Wikipédia : "GNOME, acronyme de GNU Network Object Model Environment, est un environnement graphique libre convivial dont l’objectif est de rendre accessible l’utilisation du système d’exploitation GNU au plus grand nombre ; cette interface est actuellement populaire sur les systèmes GNU/Linux et fonctionne également sur la plupart des systèmes de type UNIX."
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