The GNOME Foundation

How it Works

While the many GNOME contributors develop code, smash bugs, write documentation, and help users, the Foundation acts as a guiding hand in the process and provides resources and infrastructure. It steers releases, determines what software is officially part of the Project, and acts as the official face of the GNOME Project to the outside world, though it delegates most of its authority to specialized teams.

But that face, like the face of GNOME itself, is made by you. The GNOME Foundation membership is open to all GNOME contributors (including GNOME Circle), and every member of the Board of Directors is a contributing member of the GNOME community. Becoming a member of the Foundation strengthens your voice in the Project and gives you an opportunity to vote on goals that will steer the GNOME Project into the future.

Support GNOME

GNOME is built by people. People who are passionate about what they’re doing and care about everyone using, studying, and modifying the technology they are making. The GNOME community is a collection of amazing, inspiring people who come together to do amazing things, to push the project forward, raise awareness, teach, learn, share, organize events, and create the place we call our home within free software. Our community includes millions of people using GNOME as a desktop environment, bringing ideas into the world with GTK, and packaging their apps to Flathub.

Recent News

• GNOME.Asia 2022 Call for Participation Opens
  GNOME.Asia Summit 2022 invites you to participate as a speaker! Join us for this year’s conference on December 2nd-4th in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by submitting your abstract. GNOME.Asia is the featured […]
• Introducing GNOME 43
  The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 43, ‘Guadalajara’. This release brings a completely redesigned system settings menu which allows quickly changing common settings, including switching […]
• GNOME Turns 25
  We’re excited to celebrate our 25th birthday today! Thanks to our founders Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero for starting GNOME and thanks to all our contributors and supporters over […]