GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes

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  • hf_139
    Senior Member
    • May 2023
    • 340

    #71
    It's out

    Just as The Lunduke Journal said was going to happen after the GNOME Shaman disaster.

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    • skeevy420
      Senior Member
      • May 2017
      • 8670

      #72
      Originally posted by hf_139 View Post

      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.
      That's not surprising at the least. There are a lot of transgendered people in FOSS and who work with computers in general. The overlap of people with well paying jobs and people who can afford transgender surgery seems obvious to me.

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      • Errinwright
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2023
        • 189

        #73
        Originally posted by RejectModernity View Post
        They will cut the DEI department funding, right?
        Blasphemic talk will not be tolerated

        Gnome foundation should just redirect all the not-yet-ill-spent funds to System76 so that it may do some good for the ecosystem.

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        • Errinwright
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2023
          • 189

          #74
          Originally posted by botipua22 View Post
          ...pay themselves with pronouns.
          What a gem, going to have to pocket it for later use

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          • intelfx
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2018
            • 1151

            #75
            Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post

            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.
            This is some quality woke kool-aid, well done (not really).


            P.S.:

            <...> bigoted <...>
            Come on guys, invent some more words already to describe everything you dislike.

            This is like a perverse Tourette's, except that people with real Tourette's have their vocabulary degenerated to a single word "fuck" and y'all have your vocabularies degenerated to a single word "bigoted".
            Last edited by intelfx; 08 October 2024, 10:33 AM.

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            • Errinwright
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2023
              • 189

              #76
              Originally posted by tobias View Post

              No, they exist to make people to connect with each other so that they can work more productively together. They are about enabling development work, and much less about making money.
              I have shaman holy water I need to sell to you ;-)

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              • Weasel
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2017
                • 4512

                #77
                Let it burn.

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                • Weasel
                  Senior Member
                  • Feb 2017
                  • 4512

                  #78
                  Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
                  The ironic thing about all of this is that, globally, white people are the actual minority
                  Not in tech, so there's nothing ironic, just pure statistics at work.

                  Almost nobody goes out of their way to hire white people specifically. They do because they're qualified. It's not their fault the others suck at tech or whatever else needed. Get over it.

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                  • Gamer1227
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Mar 2024
                    • 68

                    #79
                    Originally posted by EspadaV8 View Post

                    I wouldn't trust Lunduke if he told me the sky was blue, and I definitely won't be blessing his site with a view.

                    I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but I'm guessing you definition of "toxic political extremism" is probably something to do with trying to reach out to under represented groups? In which case, I also hope it does some good and they continue to invest in those areas.
                    I agree with you, Gnome should invest more on "umder represented" groups, so that they go bankrupt faster.

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                    • LockedPotato
                      Junior Member
                      • Dec 2022
                      • 47

                      #80
                      Originally posted by Britoid View Post
                      The OSS community is toxic as fuck, look at the recent Godot drama.
                      The drama completely created by Godot? Lmao.

                      1) Make politically divisive statement fully knowing it's divisive.
                      2) Block anyone who calls you out including people that fund the project at platinum tier on all platforms.
                      3) Call them horrible evil racists for simply telling you to keep politics out of the project.
                      4) They pull the funding, fork the project, and keep developing it without you.
                      5) Harass the new project that just wants to be politics and virtue signaling free.
                      6) Profit????

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