GNOME Publishes Draft Of Five-Year Strategic Plan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Publishes Draft Of Five-Year Strategic Plan

The GNOME Foundation has published a draft copy of their five-year strategic plan that calls for more around the community, DEI, services, a more streamlined and inclusive annual event, and strengthening the foundation...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-5-Year-Plan-Draft

[Linuxhippy]

I see very few technical goals here, and thats why I have a bad feeling about it.
It reminds me a bit of the goals set by the Mozilla Foundation a few years ago.

[rene]

non detailed politburo 5 year plan. what could possible go wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[spicfoo]

I see very few technical goals here, and thats why I have a bad feeling about it.
It reminds me a bit of the goals set by the Mozilla Foundation a few years ago.

Strategy plans are not about technical goals because non-profit open source foundations do not control the tech. This is true across the board including for GNOME, Mozilla, Apache, KDE, Eclipse and Linux foundation. It is high time people commenting on these matters learn this basic fact first.

[mxan]

When KDE set goals every few years, they're actually relevant to the project. When GNOME set goals, it's about Creators, Diversity, Economic Value. Corporate and soulless, just like Mozilla. I also love how they spell out what everyone's known about GNOME forever - that there are insiders ("inward community") and outsiders. They're not even hiding it anymore LOL

[oleid]

When KDE set goals every few years, they're actually relevant to the project.

KDE project or KDE eV?

When GNOME set goals, it's about Creators, Diversity, Economic Value. Corporate and soulless, just like Mozilla.

The joke is on you. This is about GNOME foundation, not GNOME.

[mxan]

KDE project or KDE eV?

KDE project, meaning actual KDE developers and actual KDE community members. Every two years new goals are proposed and then the community votes on them; they are then announced at Akademy, KDE's main conference. https://community.kde.org/Goals/Goals_Process

[Linneris]

This is very vague corporate speak. I see very little concrete details. What kind of software do they want to focus on? How do they see the future of the GNOME desktop as an ecosystem? What are the plans for the applications, for the shell, the library stack?

[patrick1946]

non detailed politburo 5 year plan. what could possible go wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Politburo plan was super detailed. ;-)

[Volta]

Relate to bigger “outward” world by making GNOME directly relevant and attractive to many more diverse people

What do they mean here? What about less diverse people?

- Claim and Document Our Impact and Value
- Double the annual expense and revenue budget of the GNOME Foundation
- Prioritize the health and well-being of the foundation itself

Or just delete yourself, it will help everyone. Mozilla should do the same. Devs should hire one marketing guy to handle fundraising.