## 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…

## 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…

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…

## 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…

## 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…

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…

## 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…

## Flathub / Flatpak I’ve been chatting with various folks about Flathub and Flatpak for a while now, but this week was my first chance to catch up with Sebastian Wick. It was really helpful to hear the history of Flatpak tech, understand where we sit today, and discuss how we might grow Flatpak in…