On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:37 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > http://rit.mellon.org/awards > > The GNOME Foundation qualifies for these awards, surely. > > Who would like to write a first draft of a (max. 1000 words) nomination? > In my experience, the shorter the better, if you can do it in 200 words, > that would be great. Please reply here with efforts. > > We just need to figure out how the GNOME project provides a direct and > demonstrably significant benefit to the arts or the environment.
[begin nomination] The GNOME Foundation would like to nominate the GNOME Project for participation in the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration. GNOME is a project to create a desktop environment for personal computers based entirely on free software. GNOME was the first such project to make a concerted effort in the areas of usability, accessibility, and internationalization. Usability means that we keep people in mind when designing our software. Accessibility means that physically disabled people can use our software. Internationalization means that people of different languages, cultures, and writing systems can use our software. The GNOME Project's software is widely used in the public and private sectors in many countries, including schools and universities. It has become one of the dominant desktop environments used in GNU/Linux systems. [contribution to the arts; this comes from http://www.gtk.org/success/] GNOME allows custom software to be written, such as the National Gallery's VIPS image processing system (http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk), which is used in the VASARI project for archiving and cataloging of artwork in museums worldwide (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km/projs/vasari/). [end nomination] _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
