Fundraising – GNOME Foundation

Support GNOME this Giving Tuesday

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 to keep the lights on. Your financial support goes towards GNOME conferences, intern sponsors, new releases, staff resources, infrastructure, and so much more!

In the US, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving has been designated Giving Tuesday and is a day focused on supporting nonprofits. As a nonprofit, the GNOME Foundation relies on your financial support. No contribution is too big or too small and corporate and personal donations are always welcome. Please join us for our fundraising event today, Tuesday, November 28th, as we take part in the Giving Tuesday movement and ask you to make a contribution to support the GNOME Foundation.

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. 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 2024 and hope we can count on your support during Giving Tuesday. 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 Foundation opens recruitment for further expansion

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Today, July 6th 2018, the GNOME Foundation has announced a number of positions it is recruiting for to help drive the GNOME project and Free Software on the desktop. As previously announced, this has been made possible thanks to a generous grant that the Foundation has received, enabling us to accelerate this expansion.

“These positions are key to ensuring that the Foundation remains sustainable and that we are able to support the community in key areas,” said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. “It is my hope that we can continue to grow the Foundation so that these posts will continue to be funded, but to allow further positions to become available”

The Foundation is currently recruiting for four posts:

Development Coordinator
- This will ensure that we receive sufficient funds to continue our work delivering free software
Program Coordinator
- The Program Coordinator will free up time from those involved in organizational, administrative and logistical problems
Devops/Sysadmin
- The systems and services we run need proper maintenance and care. As Flathub continues to grow, more support is needed to achieve this.
GTK+ core developer
- GTK+ is core to our entire platform. Investing in development and maintenance of this toolkit will benefit the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem.

The Foundation is keen to hear from any person who is interested in applying for one of these posts. Details on how to apply and the application deadlines can be found on the Foundation’s Positions Available page.

Pitivi launches GNOME-hosted fundraising campaign

GNOME is pleased to announce that it is hosting a fundraising campaign for Pitivi. Their fundraising page launched today, with a video explaining the campaign (which was made with Pitivi). As they say in their announcement:

Free and Open Source video editing is something that can help make the world a better place, as it gives people all around the world one more tool to express themselves creatively, fight oppression, create happiness and spread love.

GNOME provides the infrastructure for the campaign and donations are considered charitable in the United States to the extent of applicable law. You can donate to the campaign here.

GNOME raises $20,000 to enhance security and privacy

Last weekend the GNOME project reached its goal of raising $20,000 to help make our software even more secure and privacy aware. We are hugely excited by this, and would like to say a big thank you to everyone who donated.

The GNOME project is passionate about protecting our user’s privacy and security, and every dollar of the money raised through this campaign will be channeled into development activities.

Just like with our previous campaign, which raised money to make GNOME more accessible, the GNOME Foundation will be allocating the funds raised through a bidding process. Anyone can apply will their proposals for how to enhance GNOME security and privacy. Areas that we are interested in pursuing include:

application containment
enhanced disk encryption support
Tor integration
user control over diagnostic reporting features
robust VPN routing
application integration with system-wide privacy settings
controls for how GNOME devices are identified on local networks
anti-phishing features for Web, the GNOME browser

Details of the bidding process will be announced as soon as possible, so watch this space. Thanks again to everyone who donated!

Help make GNOME safer than ever!

GNOME was founded with the goal of promoting software freedom. We remain committed to the empowerment of our users, and are always looking for ways to improve our software. We want people to be safe, in control, and enriched by the software they use. The GNOME community was inspired by the keynote delivered by Jacob Appelbaum on the topic of privacy at this years’ GUADEC and was reminded of our mission. To this end, GNOME is working on a new campaign focused on privacy. Through this campaign, we aim to enhance GNOME 3 so that it offers one of the most secure computing environments available.

Proceeds from the privacy fundraising campaign will be used to fund development efforts such as:

application containment
enhanced disk encryption support
Tor integration
user control over diagnostic reporting features
robust VPN routing
application integration with system-wide privacy settings
controls for how GNOME devices are identified on local networks
anti-phishing features for Web, GNOME’s web browser

Donate today to help make GNOME safer than ever!

Help GNOME reach its accessibility fundraising goal!

We’re closing in on our goal of $20,000 for our accessibility campaign. If you haven’t already, take a look at the testimonial by Diego Sánchez that we’ve been lucky to include. As Diego says, GNOME 3 has really helped him: “I’m happy because I can now use the computer in my classroom without any assistance.” Our accessibility team‘s work has made a big difference in many people’s lives, but we still have a long way to go. Help us make our goal and donate now via our Friends of GNOME program!

GNOME Launches Campaign for Accessibility

Today the GNOME Foundation announces a fundraising campaign to kick off 2012 as the Year of Accessibility for GNOME.

GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project’s inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became an award winning accessible free desktop environment.

“For me, GNU/Linux and GNOME equal freedom, and without all of the hard work which has been put into all of this wonderful software, I would truly be at a loss. This is why further development and maintenance of accessible software is so important to me.” —Read the rest of Robert Cole’s story.

With the advent of GNOME 3, GNOME has started down an exciting new path in terms of usability, which will include users of all ages and abilities. This drive is not only necessary for those with disabilities but is also increasingly needed for our devices work for any user. The GNOME accessibility team is working hard, but its resources are more limited than in the past.

With your help we can tackle the accessibility team’s many goals, making GNOME the best and most accessible desktop available today. Please help us make 2012 the Year of Accessibility at GNOME! Donate $25 or more today and ask your friends to donate too.