Giving Tuesday kicks off GNOME’s end-of-year fundraising

With hundreds of contributors all over the world working on GNOME projects, we’re doing what we can to move the project forward! But we still need help. Our organization is a 501(c)3 (in the United States) and relies on financial contributions in order to keep the lights on. Your financial support goes towards GNOME conferences, intern sponsors, new releases, staff resources, infrastructure, and so much more!  We are excited about the future of the GNOME project and ask for your support with a donation during our annual fundraising campaign. 

Giving Tuesday also marks Day 1 of our annual campaign drive which continues till the end of the year! And, we need your help reaching our goal. While a financial contribution helps, we know there are many ways to help support our fundraising. We’ve included some non-financial ways you can help:

  • Share or repost GNOME social media messages. Help us get the message out!
  • Make a donation request on behalf of GNOME! Ask friends and family to contribute to an organization that is important to you. Remember to share why GNOME is important to you. Start your own campaign today: https://www.gnome.org/donate/
  • Use the upcoming holidays to ask for contributions in lieu of presents. This is a great thing to do for birthdays and the upcoming holiday season! https://www.gnome.org/donate/
  • Take advantage of your company match program. Many organizations will match your donation – make sure you are taking advantage of all the ways you can donate!

We are excited for 2023 and hope we can count on your support during Giving Tuesday and our annual campaign drive. Help us build another great year at GNOME!

Thank you from all of us at the GNOME Foundation.


About Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is a global day of generosity that takes place today, November 30, 2021. It was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past nine years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

Learn more at https://www.givingtuesday.org/


GNOME Moves IRC Traffic to Libera Chat

As the GNOME community has moved further towards becoming Matrix-first, our legacy IRC chat systems have begun to show their age. Migrating to Libera Chat allows us to maintain IRC operations on a well-maintained and thriving platform, while also bringing the Matrix interoperability to the next level.

The shift to Libera Chat went live today. What does this mean for you? Community members already using Matrix will not notice any change, if you’re a GIMPnet user you may experience some alias changes to chat channels. Channels that have had alias changes will need to be rejoined manually. For channels with the same alias the change to Libera Chat will be transparent. For more details on what this move means for you and a deeper explanation on why we’ve moved, please see the Discourse announcement from Foundation Board member Thibault Martin.

GIMPNet has provided our community and countless others with a remarkable communications platform these past decades. It is with great appreciation that we thank the GIMPNet maintainers and moderators for their hard work and dedication to promoting open source collaboration.

This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0.