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Apologies
I believe accountability can be a challenge in a nonprofit, which only makes it all the more important. In this post, I am holding myself accountable. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing that follows has anything to do with my exit from the GNOME Foundation last August. I owe a few folks some apologies from…
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End of 10 Handout
There was a silly little project I’d tried to encourage many folks to attempt last summer. Sri picked it up back in September and after many months, I decided to wrap it up and publish what’s there. The intention is a simple, 2-sided A4 that folks can print and give out at repair cafes, like…
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So short, and thanks for all the flinch
As the board announced earlier today, I will be stepping down from the Executive Director role this week. It’s been an interesting four months. If you haven’t been following my work with the Foundation during that period, you can peruse the weekly Foundation Reports starting from May 3rd. You can also hear me in a…
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2025-08-22 Foundation Update
## Bureaucracy You may have noted that there wasn’t a Foundation Update last week. This is because almost everything that has been happening at the Foundation lately falls under the banner of “bureaucracy” and/or “administration” and there isn’t much to say about either of those topics publicly. Also, last Friday was GNOME’s 28th birthday and…
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2025-08-08 Foundation Update
## Opaque Things Very unfortunately, most of my past two weeks have been spent on “opaque things.” Let’s just label that whole bundle “bureaucracy” for now. ## Apology I owe a massive apology to the GIMP team. These folks have been incredibly patient while the GNOME Foundation, as their fiscal host, sets up a…
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2025-08-01 Foundation Update
This will perhaps be the least-fun Foundation Update of the year. July 27th was supposed to be the “Board Hack Day” (yay?… policy hackfest? everyone’s favourite?), but it ended up consumed with more immediately pressing issues. Somewhat unfortunate, really, as I think we were all looking forward to removing the executive tasks from the Board…
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2025-07-25 Foundation Update
## Annual Report The 2025 Annual Report is all-but-baked. Deepa and I would like to be completely confident in the final financial figures before publishing. The Board has seen these final numbers, during their all-day work day two days ago. I heard from multiple Board members that they’re ecstatic with how Deepa presented the financial…
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2025-07-18 Foundation Update
## Opaque Stuff some preliminary internal policy drafts ## Annual Report Most of this week was spent creating a draft of the 2025 annual report. I’ve never created an annual report for a non-profit before, so it was a fun exercise! It did consume enough time that I’ll be creating my GUADEC slides on…
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2025-07-12 Foundation Update
Gah. Every week I’m like “I’ll do a short one this week” and then I… do not. ## New Treasurers We recently announced our new treasurer, Deepa Venkatraman. We will also have a new vice-treasurer joining us in October. This is really exciting. It’s important that Deepa and I can see with absolute clarity…
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2025-07-05 Foundation Update
## The Cat’s Out Of The Bag Since some of you are bound to see this Reddit comment, and my reply, it’s probably useful for me to address it in a more public forum, even if it violates my “No Promises” rule. No, this wasn’t a shoot-from-the-hip reply. This has been the plan since I…