Step Up for GNOME and Become Friend of GNOME
The GNOME Foundation was established in 2000, to help the exercises of the GNOME venture and our objective of building a work area conditions that regards the opportunity of each client, designer, and benefactor. We keep on making extraordinary steps towards this. 2019 has been an energizing year for us with the extension of the Foundation's staff and endeavors:
- We had three fiercely effective gatherings, 13 hackfests, and newcomer occasions to assist individuals with making their first commitments to GNOME.
- We supported three astonishing Outreachy understudies and tutored eight extra understudies through Google Summer of Code.
- There were various specialized victories, including updates to GTK, new arrivals of the work area condition, and framework upgrades.
- We presented an Inclusion and Diversity group so as to make the GNOME people group an all the more inviting spot.
- We were eager to declare the Coding Education Challenge.
- The Travel Committee supported various speakers and supporters of help their work in GNOME, through giving travel subsidizing to hackfests, meetings, and talking openings.
- We had speakers and corners at meetings in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
This year has not been without challenges. Most outstandingly, October carried with it charges of patent encroachment from Rothschild Patent Imaging, Ltd. As opposed to settling or throwing in the towel, we are accepting this battle the extent that we need to so as to state that patent trolls have no spot in free programming. This exertion is something we'll be conveying forward into the coming year.
Looking forward to 2020, we as of now have a ton going on notwithstanding our patent case. There's commencing the GNOME Coding Education Challenge so as to grow the devices we have accessible to learn and instruct. We will be truly extending our availability endeavors, and are right now arranging an openness review and making arrangements for updates to the Orca screen peruser. We've just begun arranging GUADEC 2020, which will carry us to our first North American GUADEC in Zacatecas, Mexico. We have a GNOME.Asia in progress. There will be more hackfests and newcomer occasions, understudy and mentorship openings, and steady endeavors to take a shot at, for, and with the network. We'll do the entirety of this while maintaining the norms of specialized greatness you have generally expected from the GNOME venture, building programming for individuals of each nation with each degree of capacity.
The GNOME Foundation underpins crafted by the GNOME people group, and we need your assistance to continue onward. We're taking a shot at the future, not simply of how you collaborate with your PC, yet the eventual fate of free programming and we need you to go along with us. Venture up for GNOME! You can turn into a Friend of GNOME, to help us on either a yearly or month to month premise. We request a base gift of $10/month, and prescribe $25 per month ($5 for understudies). Each gift accompanies a Thank You postcard from a GNOME programmer and a markdown on GNOME swag when you discover our stall at a meeting. For $30 per month, you can get a membership to LWN. In the event that you give $500 or more on a yearly premise, you'll get an awesome Thank You note particularly from official chief Neil McGovern.
We're carrying programming opportunity to the work area. We're building up a sheltered, secure, available work area condition for everybody; assembling a worldwide network of benefactors; and cultivating the up and coming age of free and open source programming donors. By turning into a Friend of GNOME you are turning into a piece of that. Good wishes,