About LXDE Foundation

The LXDE Foundation is a registered non-profit organization that supports the development of the LXDE project and represents the LXDE community in legal and financial matters. The LXDE Foundation works for the goals of LXDE and its global community to create a faster, lightweight and more energy efficient desktop environment, especially for low spec computers that connect easily with applications in local clouds like freifunk and global clouds like the Internet. The LXDE Foundation is acting as the point of contact for the LXDE project.

“The Association’s purpose is the promotion and distribution of free desktop software in terms of free software, and the program package ‘Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, LXDE’ in particular, to promote the free exchange of knowledge and equality of opportunity in accessing software as well as education, science and research.”
(Oct. 24, 2008, Articles of LXDE Foundation)

The LXDE Foundation supports the development of LXDE by distributing the desktop environment and by securing funding and hardware. The LXDE Foundation e.V. is a non-profit legal entity representing the LXDE Project. In October 2008 the LXDE Foundation e.V. was registered as an association under German law. The “e.V.” stands for “eingetragener Verein” which means “registered non-profit association”.

LXDE is an extremely faster and more energy saving desktop environment. It was started by Hong Jen Yee in 2005 with the development of the first component PCMan File Manager. Soon an international community joined development. On October 24, 2008 a group of contributors, supporters and developers met at the c-base in Berlin to found the LXDE Foundation. Members of the foundation currently include contributors from Taiwan, Germany, France, Spain, the US, China, Turkey, Korea, Afghanistan, Uganda, Ghana, Poland, India, Greece and Italy.