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Donate Less
We have a new donation page. But before you go there, I would like to impress upon you this idea: We would vastly prefer you donate $10/mo for one year ($120 total) than $200 in one lump sum. That’s counter-intuitive, so let me explain. First of all, cash flow matters just as much to a…
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2025-06-20 Foundation Report
Welcome to the mid-June Foundation Report! I’m in an airport! My back hurts! This one might be short! haha ## AWS OSS Before the UN Open Source Week, Andrea Veri and I had a chance to meet Mila Zhou, Tom (Spot) Callaway, and Hannah Aubry from AWS OSS. We thanked them for their huge…
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2025-06-14 Foundation Report
These weeks are going by fast and I’m still releasing these reports after the TWIG goes out. Weaker humans than I might be tempted to automate — but don’t worry! These will always be artisanal, hand-crafted, single-origin, uncut, and whole bean. Felix encouraged me to add these to following week’s TWIG, at least, so I’ll…
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2025-06-06 Foundation Report
Imagine a punchy, news-broadcast-sounding intro tune and probably some 3D text swinging around a shiny, silver globe. Dun da da dun: The June 6th, 2025 GNOME Foundation Report! Sorry. These reports need a little colour or I’m going to get bored of writing them. Also sorry this one is late again! Busy week. ##…
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Pride At GNOME
After some discussion about where to announce our Pride Month celebrations, I’ve decided it might be easiest to do it on my own blog. It’s a little more personal that way. And if I say something silly or out of turn, it’s on me. Let me begin by trying to explain why Pride feels particularly…
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2025-05-30 Foundation Report
## Opaque Stuff the usual policy drafting work; thank you Allan for ensuring we’re on top of this moving some operational deadlines forward (“preponing”) was discussed but this hasn’t been confirmed yet a bunch of tactical paperwork minutiae I’ll be very happy to see completed ## Safety I published a post this week entitled…
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On Safety
As you may be aware, the entire GNOME community has been on the receiving end of a coordinated harassment campaign for the past year. All GNOME users and contributors with a public profile, and those active on Matrix, are being harassed. I want to share my personal perspective on this, as the GNOME Foundation Executive…
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2025-05-23 Foundation Report
Welcome to the third instalment of the Foundation Report! Instalment? Installment? English is dumb. Okay, here goes! ## Opaque Stuff 3rd party consultation on safety issue continues researching some software choices for process automation asking individuals about their goals – no name-dropping because I’m not sure everyone would be comfortable international finance is the worst…
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Join the GNOME Board!
The past two weeks have gone by too quickly. I’ve had so many wonderful conversations with so many of our contributors and community friends at this point that I couldn’t be more confident that I’m in the right place. The next year is going to be a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to…
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2025-05-16 Foundation Report
Whew. How is it Friday already? Here’s my attempt at a more concise Foundation Report for my second official week at the Foundation. Spoiler: If I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter. ## Opaque Things I wasn’t expecting to interact with external organizations in such a way that I…