GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes

[Phil995511]

They organized conferences and parties with the money they were given instead of using it for development ;-(

https://events.gnome.org/

[horizonbrave]

LMAO it's so typical for our friend a few posts before to be so (in their own lingo) "passive aggressive" towards plain, skeptical, and honest reporting. Because all of their mind boggling hypocrisy is easily debunked in a few (hundred) words. The world of (neo-)marxist entitled "philosophers" is truly a backwards one.

LMAO my balls, you quote Marx like if he was a bad guy. What's next the fear of "socialism"? The attack on gender polarity by trans-marxist?

[Estranged1906]

you quote Marx like if he was a bad guy

but he was

[Red_inc]

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

none of us do but in some projects they will call you a Ra$!$t piece of $h!t and ban you if you bring that up, even if you say we should focus on software. it will give the same results . these woke entities are unbelievable. this is what our good friend Lundu brings to our attention .

[reba]

Yes sure,
Go suck lunduke dick you extremist bigot

but lunduke is right

[billyswong]

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.

A significant amount of applications write their GTK4 UI together with libadwaita, probably because it is the latest and most feature-rich choice to the eyes of application developers. Also those developed by GNOME in-house.

[skeevy420]

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

It's more than just transgender. It's "Activate more diverse, under-served, female, transgender, and younger users and creators worldwide". It's about getting more people from more backgrounds to use GNOME software. Look at it this way, if GNOME was a room with 100 people you'd look around and see 85 white guys from Europe and North America. The 15 people left are women, transgender, youths, and men who aren't from NA/EU. That's not a whole lot of diversity so the people in GNOME look around the room and they think to themselves, "We have worse diversity and demographics than the MAGA movement". It also means that they live in an echo chamber. There's nobody different enough to speak out about different ideas. The few that are different aren't willing to go against the echo due to potential harassment by existing GNOME fellows like Emmanuele Bassi.

Once you see GNOME from that perspective, DEI can be a great thing for them to have. More people from more places and backgrounds can mean a less homogeneous environment and less of an echo chamber.

The ironic thing about all of this is that, globally, white people are the actual minority so the 85 white people in GNOME are technically already DEI hires and they'll be replaced by the majority. DEI can be rather funny when you look at it globally instead of locally.

People dislike DEI because having a need for DEI highlights just how racist and bigoted our societies still are. A lot of people against DEI are against it because they're not racist and they assume more people think like they do. They have no idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about. Perspective bias.

[BlueCrayon]

"Unless additional funds are secured, there will be significant reductions on community, board and staff travel to events. We’ll be reassessing which events are most critical for staff attendance."

Please God make it true because it would be so funny

[Gamer1227]

As an organization they have been fundamentally broken in recent years by toxic political extremism. A little budget shortage may actually do some good here.

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-ousts-elected-board-member

Careful, you mentioned the man that shall.not be named. Lol

[hf_139]

It's more than just transgender. It's "Activate more diverse, under-served, female, transgender, and younger users and creators worldwide". It's about getting more people from more backgrounds to use GNOME software. Look at it this way, if GNOME was a room with 100 people you'd look around and see 85 white guys from Europe and North America. The 15 people left are women, transgender, youths, and men who aren't from NA/EU. That's not a whole lot of diversity so the people in GNOME look around the room and they think to themselves, "We have worse diversity and demographics than the MAGA movement". It also means that they live in an echo chamber. There's nobody different enough to speak out about different ideas. The few that are different aren't willing to go against the echo due to potential harassment by existing GNOME fellows like Emmanuele Bassi.

Once you see GNOME from that perspective, DEI can be a great thing for them to have. More people from more places and backgrounds can mean a less homogeneous environment and less of an echo chamber.

The ironic thing about all of this is that, globally, white people are the actual minority so the 85 white people in GNOME are technically already DEI hires and they'll be replaced by the majority. DEI can be rather funny when you look at it globally instead of locally.

People dislike DEI because having a need for DEI highlights just how racist and bigoted our societies still are. A lot of people against DEI are against it because they're not racist and they assume more people think like they do. They have no idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about. Perspective bias.

Transgender people are 0.1 to 0.6% of the population. World wide.
I know at least three transgender people in the higher ranks of Gnome, so unless Gnome has 3000 developers, they are OVERrepresented, not underrepresented.