Three New Companies Join The GNOME Foundation's Advisory Board

BOSTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The GNOME Foundation today announced three new corporate members -- OpenedHand Ltd., Imendio AB and Fluendo S.L. These young growing companies are eager to support the GNOME Desktop project and become more deeply involved by joining GNOME's advisory board. Based in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain, and specializing in different applications of the GNOME platform, they reflect the diversity and optimism of the GNOME community.

"We strongly believe that GNOME technologies give advantages on today's mobile and embedded platforms," said Matthew Allum, Director of OpenedHand. "At OpenedHand we are both GNOME developers and users. That's why we are excited to join the foundation and further support GNOME and broaden its audience."

"The GNOME platform has always been a core part of our business, so it's with great joy that we announce this partnership. Our developers have been involved both professionally and personally in GNOME since the beginning of the project. We see this as a great opportunity to also support GNOME financially," said Mikael Hallendal, CEO of Imendio AB.

"With GStreamer as GNOME's multimedia framework we were happy to be invited to join the GNOME Foundation advisory board," said Julien Moutte, CEO of Fluendo. "Through collaboration with the GNOME and GStreamer communities we hope to provide a first class multimedia experience for GNOME users." About OpenedHand Ltd

OpenedHand has unique skills and experience in royalty-free mobile and embedded open source software, ranging from low-level kernel development to user interface work. OpenedHand develops open source software as well as contributing to numerous free software communities including X.org, Freedesktop.org, the Linux kernel, OpenEmbedded, GNOME, GTK and GPE. Media Enquiries:

OpenedHand Ltd

Matthew Allum

Phone: +44 (0)208 676 4077

Email: press@openedhand.com

http://openedhand.com About Imendio AB

Imendio is a small European company employing some of the world's most experienced and talented GNOME and GTK+ developers. Imendio focuses on cross- platform library and API development, targeting platforms ranging from embedded devices to desktops. With extensive experience in GLib/GTK+ and XMPP/Jabber, Imendio provides first class software development services. Media enquiries:

Imendio AB

John Laerum

Tel. +46706960408

press@imendio.com

http://www.imendio.com About Fluendo S.L.

Fluendo specializes in delivering products and consulting services focusing on UNIX and GNU/Linux multimedia. Fluendo employs several of the main developers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo's flagship product is the Flumotion streaming media server, which benefits from a unique and powerful distributed design. Fluendo leads the way by combining best-of-breed systems from the Open Source world with a strong team of highly knowledgeable software engineers and a management team with extensive streaming media expertise. Media enquiries:

Fluendo S.L.

Christian Schaller

Tel. +34 933175153

contact@fluendo.com

http://www.fluendo.com About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation

Comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. GNOME is a free software desktop and development environment for personal computers, workstations, networked servers and portable Internet devices. Major leading software industry and computer manufacturers support the GNOME development effort, which is led by a worldwide community of volunteers.

The Foundation provides organizational, financial and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and roadmap. More information on GNOME is available at http://www.gnome.org /.

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