GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes

[mos87]

As the commercial world is thankfully moving to shun ideology, is it /safe to say that the GNOME Foundation has choked on CoC?
Its very own too =P

[Pirunvirsi]

Tolerant, diverse, and inclusive.
As a side note, very typical online attitude from certain... groups.


Lets unspin here a little.
1) Trying why? Who decided it should be tried?
2) Reach out - what does it mean? In old white gammon terms please.
3) under represented groups - there's a whole bunch of uncertainty with this one.
Who and HOW measures the degree of representation?
Among what/who too?
Who decides what groups go where on the chart and which one deserves any action (Who pays/backs the action again? Who ceded the right to decide?) and which doesn't?
Also in real-life practical terms please.


Just curious, what sort of a return and more importantly in who's interests such investment is supposed to bring?

Thank you in advance.

Lmfao „certain… groups“ the quiet part is being said way too loud and the rest of your post is blasting it on a megaphone, get that conspiratorially-minded bad faith slop out of here.

[botipua22]

Respect to Holy Million. Girlfriend made bank and RAN. Now the remaining gnomes have to eat hay and pay themselves with pronouns.

[gabber]

If done really well, a position like Director of Community Development seems like it could be important. I.e. a bunch of excellent community engagement that draws in more volunteer contributors.

we all know what this position was for. and it did not pay off, literally.

[Sonadow]

Good first step in trimming the glut. Conferences and events have zero purposes for such projects outside of being money holes and free vacations.

The Gnome Foundation really only needs an administrative, finance and legal team to manage and advise the Gnome Project. Everything else is unnecessary.

[fitzie]

I'm happy to donate monthly to gnome if the following demands are met:

1) gnome commits to making gtk available on android/ios/windows/macos
2) gnome commits to redesign gtk's rendering model to be optimized for modern graphics hardware
3) gnome commits to making rust/python/zig/c++ bindings a priority
4) gnome-shell commits adds back server side decorations, and considers making a public apology for being wrong for so long
5) gnome-shell creates a committee to investigate every wayland protocol used by wlroots/kde to consider them for inclusion in gnome-shell
6) gnome-shell creates a committee to investigate robustness improvements such as being able to restart the compositor without crashing all apps, and making gnome-shell multi process, so things like the topbar doesn't run in the same address space as the compositor.
7) gnome agrees to treat phoose/phoc/cosmic/cinimmon and others part of the gnome family, and doesn't try to place gnome-shell as the only valid gnome compositor for every use case.
8) gnome no longer supports discriminatory groups and gatherings and updates it code of conflict to prevent any such activities from happening under the gnome umbrella in the future.

With those simple changes, gnome has a bright future, and I'm happy to give a few bucks a month for the cause. This offer is not time limited, gnome, you can turn that ship around at any time and we'll be there!

[rafanelli]

I thought they hired a witch who'd meet all funding goals by doing some rituals with carefully places crystals? Sad that did not work for them, who saw that coming...

I read this in this thread:

> Also KDE benefits heavily by Qt Company

The whole reason for GNOME's existence is that they did not want to use Qt (license issues that was being resolved). So they took Gimp's internal toolkit (hence GTK) and build a desktop on that. Last time I checked Gimp was actually bringing in donation money that was redistributed to other aspects of GNOME's development. So we can all see how that "amazing collaboration" works out for Gimp.

And all of this while RedHat/IBM is the patron. Wow.

[OneTimeShot]

The whole reason for GNOME's existence is that they did not want to use Qt (license issues that was being resolved).

The license issue was never resolved. QT is commercial license or GPL. GTK is LGPL which is the appropriate license for a library.

[reba]

I'm happy to donate monthly to gnome if the following demands are met:

1) gnome commits to making gtk available on android/ios/windows/macos
2) gnome commits to redesign gtk's rendering model to be optimized for modern graphics hardware
3) gnome commits to making rust/python/zig/c++ bindings a priority
4) gnome-shell commits adds back server side decorations, and considers making a public apology for being wrong for so long
5) gnome-shell creates a committee to investigate every wayland protocol used by wlroots/kde to consider them for inclusion in gnome-shell
6) gnome-shell creates a committee to investigate robustness improvements such as being able to restart the compositor without crashing all apps, and making gnome-shell multi process, so things like the topbar doesn't run in the same address space as the compositor.
7) gnome agrees to treat phoose/phoc/cosmic/cinimmon and others part of the gnome family, and doesn't try to place gnome-shell as the only valid gnome compositor for every use case.
8) gnome no longer supports discriminatory groups and gatherings and updates it code of conflict to prevent any such activities from happening under the gnome umbrella in the future.

With those simple changes, gnome has a bright future, and I'm happy to give a few bucks a month for the cause. This offer is not time limited, gnome, you can turn that ship around at any time and we'll be there!

Every single point of yours is certain to not be fulfilled with the current Gnome. And I agree those are the must-haves, so Gnome for me is the clown-shitshow-entertainment of the century.

Be happy, you saved yourself some money. It's better invested in beer than in Gnome, anyway.

[Danny3]

What have they done with the money they got from the Sovereign tech Fund?
Or they have black hole sinking all the money like Mozilla's CEO?

Anyway, Gnome developers are strongly opinionated and complete assholes for thinking that we should use the layout and behavior of the DE only how they like it, even though it is used on our computers, which doesn't even make sense why would they care about that.
Ignoring, bugs, feature requests and not letting me put whatever I want on my desktop, like shortcuts to folders, files, programs, scripts, games, etc. means that I will never donate to them and I will also never recommend their DE to anyone.

I'm not interested into supporting / helping bad attitude in any way or shape!