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renâ t currently well served on the desktop initiative 1 welcoming newcomers the community is already spending a lot of time welcoming newcomers and teaching them the best practices those activities are as time consuming as they are important but currently a handful of individuals are running initiatives such as gsoc outreachy and outreach to universities these activities help bring diverse individuals and perspectives into the community and helps them develop skills and experience of collaborating to create open source projects we want to make those efforts more sustainable by finding sponsors for these activities with funding we can hire people to dedicate their time to operating these programs including paid mentors and creating materials to support newcomers in future such as developer documentation examples and tutorials this is the initiative that needs to be refined the most before we can turn it into something real initiative 2 diverse and sustainable linux app ecosystem i spoke at the linux app summit about the work that gnome and endless has been supporting in flathub but this is an example of something which has a great overlap between commercial technical and mission based advantages the key goal here is to improve the financial sustainability of participating in our community which in turn has an impact on the diversity of who we can expect to afford to enter and remain in our community we believe the existence of this is critically important for individual developers and contributors to unlock earning potential from our ecosystem through donations or app sales in turn a healthy app ecosystem also improves the usefulness of the linux desktop as a whole for potential users we believe that we can build a case for commercial vendors in the space to join an advisory board alongside with gnome kde etc to input into the governance and contribute to the costs of growing flathub initiative 3 local first applications for the gnome desktop this is what thib has been starting to discuss on discourse in this thread there are many different threats to free access to computing and information in todayâ s world the gnome desktop and apps need to give users convenient and reliable access to technology which works similarly to the tools they already use everyday but keeps them and their data safe from surveillance censorship filtering or just being completely cut off from the internet we believe that we can seek both philanthropic and grant funding for this work it will make gnome a more appealing and comprehensive offering for the many people who want to protect their privacy the idea is that these initiatives all sit on the boundary between the gnome community and the outside world if the foundation can grow and deliver these kinds of projects we are reaching to new people new contributors and new funding these contributions and investments back into gnome represent a true â win winâ for the newcomers and our existing community originally posted to gnome discourse please feel free to join the discussion there posted by ramcq 2 01 pm comments 0 trackback permalink february 16 2022 forward the foundation earlier this week neil mcgovern announced that he is due to be stepping down as the executive director as 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 5 years and explain a little about what the next steps would be since joining in 2017 neil has overseen a productive period of growth and maturity for the foundation increasing our influence both within the gnome project and the wider free and open source software community here s a few highlights of what he s achieved together with the foundation team and the community improved public perception of gnome as a desktop and gtk as a development platform helping to align interests between key contributors and wider ecosystem stakeholders and establishing an ongoing collaboration with kde around the linux app summit worked with the board to improve the maturity of the board itself and allow it to work at a more strategic level instigating staggered two year terms for directors providing much needed stability and established the executive and finance committees to handle specific topics and the governance committees to take a longer term look at the board s composition and capabilities arranged 3 major grants to the foundation totaling 2m and raised a further 250k through targeted fundraising initiatives grown the foundation team to its largest ever size investing in staff development and established ongoing direct contributions to gnome gtk and flathub by foundation staff and contractors launched and incubated flathub as an inclusive and sustainable ecosystem for linux app developers to engage directly with their users and delivered the community engagement challenge to invest in the sustainability of our contributor base â â â the foundation s largest and most substantial programs outside of gnome itself since outreachy achieved a fantastic resolution for gnome and the wider community by negotiating a settlement which protects foss developers from patent enforcement by the rothschild group of non practicing entities stood for a diverse and inclusive foundation implementing a code of conduct for gnome events and online spaces establishing our first code of conduct committee and updating the bylaws to be gender neutral established the gnome circle program together with the board broadening the membership base of the foundation by welcoming app and library developers from the wider ecosystem recognizing and appreciating the amazing progress that gnome has made with neil s support the search for a new executive director provides the opportunity for the foundation board to set the agenda and next high level goals we d like to achieve together with our new executive director in terms of the desktop applications technology design and development processes whilst there are always improvements to be made the board s general feeling is that thanks to the work of our amazing community of contributors gnome is doing very well in terms of what we produce and publish recent desktop releases have looked great highly polished and well received and the application ecosystem is growing and improving through new developers and applications bringing great energy at the moment from here our largest opportunity in terms of growing the community and our user base is being able to articulate the benefits of what we ve produced to a wider public audience and deliver impact which allows us to secure and grow new and sustainable sources of funding for individuals we are able to offer an exceedingly high quality desktop experience and a broad range of powerful applications which are affordable to all backed by a nonprofit which can be trusted to look after your data digital security and your best interests as an individual from the perspective of being a public charity in the us we also have the opportunity to establish programs that draw upon our community technology and products to deliver impact such as developing employable skills incubating new open source contributors learning to program and more for our next executive director we will be looking for an individual with existing experience in that nonprofit landscape ideally with prior experience establishing and raising funds for programs that deliver impact through technology and appreciation for the values that bring people to free open source and other open culture organizations working closely with the existing members contributors volunteers and whole gnome community and managing our relationships with the advisory board and other key partners we hope to find a candidate that can build public awareness and help people learn about use and benefit from what gnome has built over the past two decades neil has agreed to stay in his position for a 6 month transition period during which he will support the board in our search for a new executive director and support a smooth hand over over the coming weeks we will publish the job description for the new ed and establish a search committee who will be responsible for sourcing and interviewing candidates to make a recommendation to the board for neil s successor a hard act to follow i m confident the community will join me and the board in personally thanking neil for his 5 years of dedicated service in support of gnome and the foundation should you have any queries regarding the process or offers of assistance in the coming hiring process please don t hesitate to join the discussion or reach out directly to the board posted by ramcq 2 48 pm comments 1 trackback permalink june 1 2021 next steps for the gnome foundation as the president of the gnome foundation board of directors iâ m really pleased to see the number and breadth of candidates we have for this yearâ s election thank you to everyone who has submitted their candidacy and volunteered their time to support the foundation allan has recently blogged about how the board has been evolving and i wanted to follow that post by talking about where the gnome foundation is in terms of its strategy this may be helpful as people consider which candidates might bring the best skills to shape the foundationâ s next steps around three years ago the foundation received a number of generous donations and rosanna director of operations gave a presentation at guadec about her and neilâ s executive director essentially the ceo of the foundation plans to use these funds to transform the foundation we would grow our activities increasing the pace of events outreach development and infrastructure that supported the gnome project and the wider desktop ecosystem and crucially would grow our funding to match this increased level of activity i think itâ s fair to say that half of this has been a great success weâ ve got a larger staff team than gnome has ever had before weâ ve widened the gnome software ecosystem to include related apps and projects under the gnome circle banner weâ ve helped get gtk 4 out of the door run a wider reaching program in the community engagement challenge and consistently supported better infrastructure for both gnome and the linux app community in flathub aside from another grant from endless note my employer our fundraising hasnâ t caught up with this pace of activities as a result the board recently approved a budget for this financial year which will spend more funds from our reserves than we expect to raise in income due to our reserves policy this is essentially the last time we can do this over the next 6 12 months we need to either raise more money or start spending less for clarity the foundation is fit and well from a financial perspective we have a very healthy bank balance and a very conservative â 12 month run rateâ reserve policy to handle fluctuations in income if we do have to slow down some of our activities we will return to a â steady stateâ where our regular individual donations and corporate contributions can support a smaller staff team that supports the events and infrastructure weâ ve come to rely on however this isnâ t what the board wants to do the previous and current boards were unanimous in their support of the idea that we should be ambitious try to do more in the world and bring the benefits of gnome to more people we want to take our message of trusted affordable and accessible computing to the wider world typically a lot of the activities of the foundation have been very inwards facing supporting and engaging with either the existing gnome or open source communities this is a very restricted audience in terms of fundraising many corporate actors in our community already support gnome hugely in terms of both financial and in kind contributions and many oss users are already supporters either through volunteer contributions or donating to those nonprofits that they feel are most relevant and important to them to raise funds from new sources the foundation needs to take the message and ideals of gnome and open source software to new wider audiences that we can help weâ ve been developing themes such as affordability privacy trust and education as promising areas for new programs that broaden our impact the goal is to find projects and funding that allow us to both invest in the gnome community and find new ways for foss to benefit people who arenâ t already in our community bringing it back to the election iâ d like to make clear that i see this reaching the outside world and finding funding to support that as the main priority and responsibility of the board for the next term gnome foundation elections are a slightly unusual process that â filtersâ our board nominees by being existing foundation members which means that candidates already work inside our community when they stand for election if youâ re a candidate and are already active in the community thank you youâ re doing great work keep doing it that said you donâ t need to be a director to achieve things within our community or gain the support of the foundation being a community leader is already a fantastic and important role the foundation really needs support from the board to make a success of the next 12 18 months we need to understand our financial situation and the trade offs we have to make and help to define the strategy with the executive director so that we can launch some new programs that will broaden our impact and funding for the future as people cast their votes iâ d like people to think about what kind of skills building partnerships commercial background familiarity with finances experience in nonprofit impact spaces etc will help the board make the foundation as successful as it can be during the next term posted by ramcq 11 45 am comments 2 trackback permalink january 22 2021 launching endless os foundation how our for profit company became a nonprofit to better tackle the digital divide originally posted on the endless os foundation blog an 8 year journey to a nonprofit on the 1st of april 2020 our for profit endless mobile officially became a nonprofit as the endless os foundation our launch as a nonprofit just as the global pandemic took hold was predictably hardly noticed but for us the timing was incredible as the world collectively asked â what can we do to help others in need â we framed our mission statement and launched our org with the same very important question in mind endless always had a social impact mission at its heart and the challenges related to students families and communities falling further into the digital divide during covid 19 brought new urgency and purpose to our teamâ s decision to officially step in the social welfare space on april 1st 2020 our for profit endless mobile officially became a nonprofit as the endless os foundation focused o...