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The X.Org Foundation is the consortium holding the stewardship for the development of the X Window System. It was founded from the previous X.org site of the Open Group on 22 January 2004.

The creation of the Foundation marked a radical change in the governance of X. Whereas the stewards of X since 1988 (including the previous X.Org) had been vendor organizations, the Foundation is led by software developers and using community development on the bazaar model, which relies on outside involvement. Membership is also open to individuals, with corporate membership being in the form of sponsorship.

The Foundation is a Delaware LLC, with non-profit status as a scientific charity. The initial Interim Board of Directors is Stuart Anderson (Free Standards Group), Egbert Eich (SUSE/Novell), Jim Gettys (HP), Georg Greve (Free Software Foundation Europe), Stuart Kreitman (Sun Microsystems), Kevin Martin (Red Hat), Jim McQuillan (Linux Terminal Server Project), Leon Shiman (Shiman Associates and the old X.Org) and Jeremy White (CodeWeavers).

The XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11 is the reference implementation of X. The current version is X11R6.8.2. It is hosted at freedesktop.org.

External links

• X.Org home page (http://www.x.org/)
• X.Org page at freedesktop.org (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/)