We have just released the new Friends of GNOME website! It’s not only a new website, we now have:
- Much more clear presentation of the program which we hope will help us on getting more donors;
- “Adopt a Hacker” option, which allows you to subscribe for a monthly $10 donation;
- New gifts for donors: mugs, t-shirts, postcards, stickers, etc;
Big thanks to:
- Stormy, who’s responsible for the whole new presentation of the program;
- Zana, who’s the program admin, handling the relationship with donors and all the daily tasks surrounding Friends of GNOME;
- Andreas and Kalle, for the new website design;
- Owen, for the help on setting up the new website in the GNOME servers;
- GNOME marketing folks, who helped us with feedback and ideas;
- Everyone else who made this happen!
If you have any issues, suggestions, ideas about the new website, email us (fundraising at gnome.org).
So, what are you waiting for!? Go and Adopt a Hacker today!
And now they add stickers to your Associates Mouse Pad. Good way to make us 2008 donors want to donate again :)
Maybe this is a stupid question, but where does my money go? I didn’t think the Gnome Foundation directly paid any developers?
@Michael, he main goal of GNOME Foundation is to support the GNOME community in several ways. Have a look at the new Friends of GNOME website. You’ll find information about what we’ve done in 2008 and what we plan to do in 2009.
@Lucasr: Ha, am I blind or did you just add that? ;-) Thanks for the info!
How do you become adoptable?
@Thomas, what do you mean exactly? The list of people in the website are simply the ones who will send the postcards to donors.
@lucasr:
yes. is there a way to get onto the list if you are a GNOME hacker and like sending people postcards?
@Thomas, ok, cool. vuntz is the guy organizing the list of postcard senders. We’re planning to update it with different people every 3-6 months. Just email him about this. Cheers!