It’s Friday, so it’s time for a GNOME Foundation update, and there are some exciting items to share. As ever, these are just the highlights: there’s plenty more happening in the background that I’m not covering. Fundraising progress I’m pleased to be able to report that, in recent weeks, the number of donors in our … Continue reading GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-24| Form and Function
It’s the end of the working week, the weekend is calling, and it’s time for another weekly GNOME Foundation update. As always, there’s plenty going on at the GNOME Foundation, and this post just covers the highlights that are easy to share. Let’s get started. Board meeting The Board of Directors had a regular meeting … Continue reading GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-17| Form and Function
It's Friday, which means that it's time for another GNOME Foundation update. Here's what's been happening in the Foundation over the past 7 days. Membership rule change The GNOME Foundation's members are a vitally important part of the organisation, and this week we changed our membership requirements to make them more inclusive. This change required...| Form and Function
It’s a wet and windy October afternoon here in the UK, and it’s time for another GNOME Foundation update. As ever, there is plenty going on behind the scenes which hasn’t made it into this post, such as planning discussions and routine operations. However, there are some notable things from this week that are easier … Continue reading GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-03| Form and Function
It's Friday, which means that it's time for another GNOME Foundation update. Here’s what’s been happening over the past week. Work in progress We currently have a number of work items that are in progress, but which we aren’t quite ready to talk about in detail yet. This includes progress on GIMP’s development grants, as...| Form and Function
Another week, another GNOME Foundation update! This week was slightly quieter than the last two, but there’s still plenty going on. Here are some of the highlights. GNOME 49 GNOME 49 was released this week! Huge congratulations to the GNOME community. It’s a really strong release and the release notes are a testament to everyone’s … Continue reading GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-09-19| Form and Function
It's been another busy week for the GNOME Foundation. Here's my attempt to summarise what's been happening. As with my previous update, this update is for the whole organisation rather than just me personally. It's also likely that I'll have missed some things. Hopefully I've captured the highlights though! GNOME.Asia 2025 GNOME.Asia 2025 is happening...| Form and Function
Steven’s weekly Foundation updates were fantastic and, since I’m filling in the ED role as President, I want to keep them going. I’m still mulling over the frequency and scheduling of the posts, but for now I’ll stick to weekly on Fridays.| Form and Function
Steven’s weekly Foundation updates were fantastic and, since I’m filling in the ED role as President, I want to keep them going. I’m still mulling over the frequency and scheduling of the posts, but for now I’ll stick to weekly on Fridays. I’m trying to make this an update for the entire organisation, rather than … Continue reading Foundation Update, 2025-09-05| Form and Function
Steven Deobald has been in the post of GNOME Foundation Executive Director for the past four months, during which time he has made major contributions to both the Foundation and the wider GNOME project. Sadly, Steven will be leaving the Foundation this week. The Foundation Board is extremely grateful to Steven and wish him the...| Form and Function
This post is a response to what Tobias posted yesterday on his blog. I would really prefer not be writing it. There are many other things that I would prefer to be doing, and I do not enjoy engaging in public disagreements. I honestly find all of this very stressful and unpleasant, but here we … Continue reading On Elephants| Form and Function
This is a bloggified version of the talk that I gave at GUADEC 2017. In converting it into print, it has been elaborated and refined.| Form and Function
In recent weeks, I’ve been working on a major update to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). The motivations for this work were varied. The HIG is fairly out of date, both in relation to contemporary design practice, as well as GNOME platform capabilities, and so needed updating. But we also wanted to improve the quality of the design guidance that we offer, and do a much better job at integrating our design docs with the rest of the developer platform.| Form and Function
