diff --git a/en/gnome/Makefile b/en/gnome/Makefile
index 3f05dbf7dc..2bc171f823 100644
--- a/en/gnome/Makefile
+++ b/en/gnome/Makefile
@@ -1,18 +1,29 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 .if exists(../Makefile.conf)
 .include "../Makefile.conf"
 .endif
 .if exists(../Makefile.inc)
 .include "../Makefile.inc"
 .endif
 
 SUBDIR=		docs
 SUBDIR+=	images
 SUBDIR+=	patches
 
 DOCS=	index.sgml
 DOCS+=	screenshots.sgml
 DOCS+=	contact.sgml
 
+DATA=	newsflash.html
+
+CLEANFILES=	newsflash.html
+
+newsflash.html: newsflash.xsl news.xml includes.xsl ../includes.xsl
+	${XSLTPROC} ${XSLTPROCOPTS} -o ${.TARGET} \
+		${.CURDIR}/newsflash.xsl ${.CURDIR}/news.xml
+.if !defined(NO_TIDY)
+	-${TIDY} ${TIDYOPTS} ${.TARGET}
+.endif
+
 .include "${WEB_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk"
diff --git a/en/gnome/includes.xsl b/en/gnome/includes.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96359d52d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en/gnome/includes.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
+
+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
+
+  <xsl:variable name="newshome">
+    <a href="{$base}/news/news.html">FreeBSD News Home</a>
+  </xsl:variable>
+
+  <xsl:variable name="author">                                                  
+    <a>                                                                         
+      <xsl:attribute name="href">                                               
+        <xsl:value-of select="concat($base, '/gnome/contact.html')"/>           
+      </xsl:attribute>                                                          
+      <xsl:value-of select="'freebsd-gnome'"/>@FreeBSD.org</a><br/><xsl:value-of select="$copyright"/>
+  </xsl:variable>
+
+  <!-- Generate a unique anchor for this event -->
+  <xsl:template name="generate-event-anchor">
+    <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::year/name"/>
+    <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::month/name"/>
+    <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::day/name"/>:<xsl:value-of select="count(preceding-sibling::event)"/>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <!-- Generate a unique anchor for this story -->
+  <xsl:template name="generate-story-anchor">
+    <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::year/name"/>
+    <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::month/name"/>:<xsl:text/>
+    <xsl:value-of select="count(following-sibling::story)"/>
+  </xsl:template>
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/en/gnome/news.xml b/en/gnome/news.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4acaa7d95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en/gnome/news.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
+
+<!-- Simple schema for FreeBSD Project news.
+
+     Divide time in to <year>, <month>, and <day> elements, each of which 
+     has a <name>.
+
+     each <day> element contains one or more <event> elements.
+
+     Each <event> contains an optional <title>, and then a <p>.  <p> elements
+     can contain <a> anchors.  Within the "href" attribute of the anchor
+     $base will be replaced with the base URI necessary to reach the FreeBSD
+     document root, and should always be used to start URLs at www.FreeBSD.org
+     or one of the mirrors.
+
+     Use the <title> element if the <p> content is lengthy.  When generating
+     synopses of this information (e.g., for syndication using RDF files), 
+     the contents of <title> will be preferred over <p>.
+-->
+
+<news>
+  <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
+    <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
+      $FreeBSD$
+    </cvs:keyword>
+  </cvs:keywords>
+
+  <year>
+    <name>2002</name>
+
+    <month>
+      <name>January</name>
+
+      <day>
+	<name>31</name>
+
+	<event>
+          <p>Band new FreeBSD GNOME site is up and running.  Many thanks
+            to all who make it possible, particularly <a
+            href="mailto:marcus@marcuscom.com">Joe Marcus Clarke</a>
+            and <a
+            href="mailto:john_m_cooper@yahoo.com">John Merryweather Cooper</a>.
+            </p>
+        </event>
+
+      </day>
+    </month>
+  </year>
+</news>
diff --git a/en/gnome/newsflash.xsl b/en/gnome/newsflash.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..45a20ec116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en/gnome/newsflash.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
+
+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
+  xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">
+
+  <xsl:import href="../includes.xsl"/>
+  <xsl:import href="includes.xsl"/>
+
+
+  <xsl:variable name="base" select="'..'"/>
+  <xsl:variable name="title" select="'FreeBSD GNOME News Flash'"/>
+  <xsl:variable name="date">
+    <xsl:value-of select="//cvs:keyword[@name='freebsd']"/>
+  </xsl:variable>
+  
+  <xsl:output type="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
+
+  <xsl:template match="news">
+    <html>
+      
+      <xsl:copy-of select="$header1"/>
+
+      <body xsl:use-attribute-sets="att.body">
+
+	<xsl:copy-of select="$header2"/>
+
+	<!-- Notice how entity references in SGML become variable references
+	     in the stylesheet, and that the syntax for referring to variables
+	     inside an attribute is "{$variable}".
+
+	     This is just dis-similar enough to Perl and the shell that you
+	     end up writing ${variable} all the time, and then scratch your 
+	     head wondering why the stylesheet isn't working.-->
+
+	<!-- Also notice that because this is now XML and not SGML, empty
+             elements, like IMG, must have a trailing "/" just inside the 
+   	     closing angle bracket, like this " ... />" -->
+	<img src="{$base}/gifs/news.jpg" align="right" border="0" width="193"
+	     height="144" alt="FreeBSD GNOME News"/>
+
+	<xsl:apply-templates select="descendant::month"/>
+	
+	<xsl:copy-of select="$newshome"/>
+	<xsl:copy-of select="$footer"/>
+      </body>
+    </html>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <!-- Everything that follows are templates for the rest of the content -->
+  
+  <xsl:template match="month">
+    <h1><xsl:value-of select="name"/>
+      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+      <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::year/name"/></h1>
+
+    <ul>
+      <xsl:apply-templates select="descendant::day"/>
+    </ul>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="day">
+    <xsl:apply-templates select="event"/>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="event">
+    <li><p><a>
+	  <xsl:attribute name="name">
+	    <xsl:call-template name="generate-event-anchor"/>
+	  </xsl:attribute>
+	</a>
+
+	<b><xsl:value-of select="ancestor::day/name"/>
+	  <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+	  <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::month/name"/>, 
+	  <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::year/name"/>:</b><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+	<xsl:apply-templates select="p"/>
+	</p>
+
+    </li>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="date"/>    <!-- Deliberately left blank -->
+
+  <!-- When the href attribute contains a '$base', expand it to the current
+       value of the $base variable. -->
+
+  <!-- All your $base are belong to us.  Ho ho ho -->
+  <xsl:template match="a">
+    <a><xsl:attribute name="href">
+	<xsl:choose>
+	  <xsl:when test="contains(@href, '$base')">
+	    <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring-before(@href, '$base'), $base, substring-after(@href, '$base'))"/>
+	  </xsl:when>
+	  <xsl:otherwise>
+	    <xsl:value-of select="@href"/>
+	  </xsl:otherwise>
+	</xsl:choose>
+      </xsl:attribute>
+      <xsl:apply-templates/>
+    </a>
+  </xsl:template>
+</xsl:stylesheet>