This post is another in my series of GNOME Foundation updates, each of which provides an insight into what’s happened at the GNOME Foundation over the past week. If you are new to these posts I would encourage you to look over some of the previous entries – there’s a fair amount going on at the Foundation right now, and my previous posts provide some useful background.
Old business
It has been another busy week at the GNOME Foundation. Here’s a quick summary:
- We had a regular Board meeting (as in, the meeting was part of our regular schedule), where we discussed details about the annual report, some financial policy questions, and partnerships.
- There was another planning meeting for the Digital Wellbeing program, which is close to wrapping up. If you haven’t seen it already, Ignacy gave a great overview of the work that’s been done on this!
- There have been more meetings with Dawn Matlak, our new finance advisor and systems guru. We are now at the stage where our new finance system is being setup, which is exciting! The plan is to consolate our payments processing on this new platform, which will reduce operational complexity. Invoice processing in future will also be highly automated, and we are going to get additional capabilities around virtual credit cards, which we already have plans for.
- Preparations continued for GNOME.Asia 2025, which is happening in Tokyo next month. Assisting attendees with visas and travel has been a particular focus.
Most of these items are a continuation of activities that I’ve described in more detail in previous posts, and I’m a bit light on new news this week, but I think that’s to be expected sometimes!
Post #10
This is the tenth in my series of GNOME Foundation updates, and this seems like a good point to reflect on how they are going. The weekly posting cadance made sense in the beginning, and wrapping up the week on a Friday afternoon is quite enjoyable, but I am unsure if a weekly post is too much reading for some.
So, I’d love to hear feedback: do you like the weekly updates, or do you find it hard to keep up? Would you prefer a higher-level monthly update? Do you like hearing about background operational details, or are you more interested in programs, events and announcements? Answers to these questions would be extremely welcome! Please let me know what you think, either in the comments or by reaching out on Matrix.
That’s it from me for now. Thanks for reading, and have a great day.
I’m really appreciating the weekly updates and I don’t mind hearing about the operational details. Thanks for continuing to post these, Allan!
I like this weekly updates a lot. It provides a good transparency!
I like the post content and frequency. I enjoy learning about the background operations most. There will always be slow weeks. Please stick with the current formula
The weekly updates are a great way to keep us normies up to date. It highlights a lot of the work going on in the background that we do it think about. Keep it up
I like the weekly updates but I do think monthly might be better. Each post would have a bit more impact. You mentioned looking at the previous posts for context, maybe this is just me but I read it last week and I’ve forgotten what was in it.
Though, regardless of the frequency, I’ll still enjoy and appreciate the posts .
I enjoy the weekly posts and find them useful. Weekly or every other week would work. I think monthly would be too infrequent.
I really like these – it’s great for increasing transparency and showing that the GNOME foundation is people.
Before these weekly updates I had a much vaguer idea of what the foundation does despite using GNOME since 0.9.
I’ve worked in projects where we did weeknotes and they did it in a way they spread the load by rotating who was in charge each week:
On the Friday, it would be put up as a shared document, and then the person in charge of the weeknote that week would draft it, and other projects could then add any bits that had been missed or do any tweaks.
Then, near the end of the day it would be published.
I like them! I think that transparency is important, and this certainly increases it. I’d like to continue seeing these as long they don’t take too much out of you.
I think weekly is a nice cadence. Its nice as a reader anyway. GNOME never sleeps :)
Please keep doing these weekly posts! It’s nice to know what the Foundation is working on, and I think it’s also a good practice to have.