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 the last 25 years. We could never have gotten to GNOME 42 without your help! What began as a two-person project in…
The GNOME Foundation is looking for qualified candidates for the position of Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. We are looking for an individual with existing experience in the wider nonprofit community, ideally with prior experience establishing and raising funds for programs that deliver impact through technology. Working closely with the existing…
We're happy to announce that GNOME Chat has officially moved to Matrix. This move comes as a result of our chat evaluation initiative, launched in February of 2021 to help solve the fragmentation in our chat communications. During the course of that initiative, we collected feedback from our community about which chat…
We're pleased to announce that Registration for GUADEC 2022 is now open! GUADEC is the largest annual gathering of GNOME developers and community members. This year's edition will be a hybrid event, taking place from July 20th-25th in-person in Guadalajara, Mexico with living streaming for those who wish to attend remotely. If…
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 42. This release introduces Dark mode and an entirely new screenshot workflow. Beyond that, there are several improved Settings panels, many of the GNOME applications have been ported to GTK 4 and libadwaita, and much more. To learn more about the…
The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that the call for participation for GUADEC 2022 is now open. Proposals can be submitted on the event page: https://events.gnome.org/event/77/abstracts/ GUADEC, the GNOME community’s largest conference, will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico between the 20th and 25th of July. This year's conference includes a number of exciting…
We’re happy to announce that GUADEC 2022 will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico between 20th and 25th of July. This year GUADEC will be held as a hybrid event and attendees will be able to join virtually or in person at our venue in Guadalajara.The call for proposals and registration will be…
Earlier this week, Neil McGovern announced that he is due to be stepping down as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation later this year. As the President of the board and Neil’s effective manager together with the Executive Committee, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on his achievements in the past…
The GNOME Foundation was supported during 2020-2021 by a grant from Endless Network which funded the Community Engagement Challenge, strategy consultancy with the board, and a contribution towards our general running costs. At the end of last year we had a portion of this grant remaining, and after the success of our…
As the end of the year approaches, we wanted to take a moment to thank our community for supporting GNOME! It is because of contributions from our Friends of GNOME, one-time donors, and project contributors that we were able to: Release GNOME 40 and 41Organize GUADEC , GNOME.Asia , GNOME Onboard Africa , LAS , and moreRepresented GNOME at over 16 conferences and…