It’s a wet and windy October afternoon here in the UK, and it’s time for another GNOME Foundation update. As ever, there is plenty going on behind the scenes which hasn’t made it into this post, such as planning discussions and routine operations. However, there are some notable things from this week that are easier to sum up.
Sovereign Tech Resilience
The GNOME Project was recently fortunate to receive support from the Sovereign Tech Agency through their Sovereign Tech Resilience program. This program works by contracting out assistance for open source projects, and has resulted in a firm called Neighbourhood.ie Software doing some work on the Blueprint markup language, including implementing a new linter.
Neighbourhood.ie’s Blueprint work is now almost complete, and the new capabilities they have implemented will help to make GNOME maintainers and developers more efficient, and will also help to reduce bugs.
It is obviously fantastic to receive support like this, and I’d like to offer thanks to STA for the funding, to Neighbourhood.ie for being a great partner, and to Sonny Piers for developing the original work outline for this initiative.
With the Blueprint work being wrapped up, we are now in conversation with Neighbourhood.ie about other work that they might undertake. For this we’re drawing on a list of possible work areas that Adrian Vovk and I recently worked up in conversation with GNOME community members.
Black Python Devs
I had a great conversation today with Jay Miller from Black Python Devs. The GNOME Foundation is proud to provide fiscal hosting for Black Python Devs, and it was great to hear about how their work is having a major positive impact. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend that you check out their website.
Legal adventures
My quest to find answers to some of our pending corporate governance questions finally ended in success this week, with a successful call with a lawyer who specialises in this area. We’ll be working through the advice we got very soon.
Policy development
Policies are part and parcel of running a non-profit like the GNOME Foundation, and I’ve recently been working on a number of policy updates that will hopefully come into effect in coming months. This is mostly about tightening up procedures, and will hopefully help with budgeting and smoother operations in the future.
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Thanks for reading and see you next week!