GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes

[sobrus]

GNOME (with compiz!) was the main reason I ditched Windows and never looked back. Tried Linux several times before, but never liked KDE. The day I installed OpenSUSE 11.4 with GNOME was the last day of windows on my machine. The problem is, that since GNOME3, they took different path that I never became accustomed to. I switched to MATE, and now Cinnamon.

I don't care much about gnome shell. If they want to develop such an odd desktop, no problem. I don't have to use it. But what really concerns me is that GTK land is dying due to their decisions. Apps are switching to Qt, and even under Cinnamon, more and more GTK apps start to look akward.

I'd be happy to see GTK being forked. I would gladly donate to such project.

(and regarding their CoC, strategy and philosophy - I don't want to waste my time commenting on it)

[L_A_G]

Well... Turns out that having a peddler of what essentially amounts to faith healing, i.e a con artist, at the top of the organization didn't help fundraising. Probably to be expected when people who donate to open source projects are going to be smarter than the crowds most faith/energy healers target. Evangelicals and Californian "crunchy" stay-at-home-wives/moms aren't exactly the smartest people around.

Looking at what they're cutting it seems like its mostly to do with convention advertising, attendance, fundraising and community management. Not sure if these are right things to be cutting when a failure of fundraising is why they're cutting expenses in the first place and visibility in conventions is essential for fundraising. The ESG stuff, which doesn't bring in any money, is naturally unaffected. I guess that speaks for where their priorities lay.

[hf_139]

Bad news for the outward-facing, under-served, female, transgender and diverse audience that GNOME targeted in their 5 year plan that was released 1.5 years ago.

[Britoid]

Bad news for the outward-facing, under-served, female, transgender and diverse audience that GNOME targeted in their 5 year plan that was released 1.5 years ago.

Was this an official thing?

[hf_139]

Was this an official thing?

Yes

https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/05/23/introducing-the-gnome-foundations-five-year-strategic-plan-draft/

[Estranged1906]

Yes
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/05...ic-plan-draft/

>Create a more inclusive leadership model, taking the voting board from seven to eleven members, and add non-voting regional and committee “officers” positions to board (number to be determined) prioritizing advancing women, people of color, people from under-represented regions, and people with disabilities to positions of leadership.

>Activate more diverse, under-served, female, transgender, and younger users and creators worldwide through direct outreach, relevant programs, and new commercial and nonprofit partnerships.

Fits in well with their racist and sexist CoC which essentially says "if you're a white cis man you can shut the fuck up".

[hsci]

I'd be happy to see GTK being forked. I would gladly donate to such project.

It is okay if you prefer another environment but forking Gtk isn't what we need. This will harm us all and split developers.
We need more and improved Gtk

[Britoid]

Yes
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/05...ic-plan-draft/

I don't understand what being transgender has to do with open source / free software...

[Vallendalf]

It is okay if you prefer another environment but forking Gtk isn't what we need. This will harm us all and split developers.
We need more and improved Gtk

Improved GTK, how since it focuses entirely on Gnome causing apps to not look good/consistent with other GTK environments?

[curfew]

It is okay if you prefer another environment but forking Gtk isn't what we need. This will harm us all and split developers.
We need more and improved Gtk

Gnome is already doing the god's work by developing Gnome-specific features in Libadwaita instead of baking it into the GTK core. So, to some extent, GTK should be free of "gnomification" or whatever people would like to call it.