Xfce Foundation e.V. launched at FOSDEM!

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:02:14 +1000, Russell wrote:

>On 9 February 2011 03:16, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> as some of you might have read, several of us Xfce developers and
>>> packagers have attended FOSDEM this weekend. There was a lot of
>>> talking and a bit of brainstorming of course. Together we enjoyed
>>> food, beer, talks and also did something that we have been
>>> struggling with for several years now: we launched a non-profit
>>> organization for Xfce.
>>>
>>> Yes, you read correctly: the
>>>
>>>  Xfce Foundation e.V.
>>>
>>> was founded by a group of us on Saturday afternoon! It still needs
>>> to be registered, so technically it's not an "e.V." (a non-profit
>>> organization registered in Germany) yet. But it will be, we are
>>> working on that.
>>>
>>> The eight founding members are:
>>>
>>>  #1  Christoph Wickert
>>>  #2  Landry Breuil
>>>  #3  Jens Luedicke
>>>  #4  Christian Dywan
>>>  #5  Nick Schermer
>>>  #6  Jérôme Guelfucci
>>>  #7  Jannis Pohlmann
>>>  #8  Lionel Le Folgoc
>>>
>>
>> Thumbs up, everyone!  Congratulations!
>>
>> Jim
>
>Me too! :) Seriously, congratulations. I know this is something the
>team have been working toward for a long time.

And once more: congratulations guys!
Big thanks to Jannis, Nick and the rest of the gang for spending time
into this and finally making it real!

Regards,
Enrico

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