XORGFOUNDATION(__miscmansuffix__)

NAME
XOrg Foundation - XOrg Foundation information

SYNOPSIS
Release 6.8 of X Version 11 is brought to you by the XOrg Foundation, Inc.

DESCRIPTION
The XOrg Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity corporation. It was formed in 2004 as the successor to the XOrg Group at The Open Group. The purpose of the XOrg Foundation is to foster the development, evolution, and maintenance of the X Window System, a comprehensive set of vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standards. Membership in the XOrg Foundation is free and open to anyone. The XOrg Foundation hosts a public CVS repository of the source code on Freedesktop.Org.

The X Window System was created in the mid-1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1988, MIT formed a member-funded consortium to provide the technical and administrative leadership necessary to support further development of the X Window System. In 1992, MIT and the membership decided it was in their best interests to move the consortium out of MIT and create an independent, stand-alone organization. All rights to the X Window System were assigned by MIT to X Consortium, Inc. on January 1, 1994. On December 31, 1996 the X Consortium, Inc. closed its doors and all rights to the X Window System were assigned to The Open Group (then known as the Open Software Foundation.)

INTERIM BOARD
Stuart Anderson, Free Standards Group
Egbert Eich, SUSE Linux
Mattias Ettrich, KDE
Jim Gettys, Hewlett Packard
Georg Greve, Free Software Foundation Europe
Alan Hourihane
Stuart Kreitman, Sun Microsystems
Kevin Martin, Red Hat Linux
Jim McQuillan, Linux Terminal Server Project
Leon Shiman, Shiman Associates
Jeremy White, Code Weavers

ADDRESSES
The XOrg Foundation's web site is http://www.x.org/

The XOrg Foundation's public ftp site is ftp://ftp.x.org/

The Open Group's web site is http://www.opengroup.org/

Information about the XOrg Foundation CVS repository is on the Freedesktop.Org web site at http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xorg/