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The GNOME Foundation has selected the first recipients who will receive funding through its new Fellowship program, and is delighted to announce that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie Herold will begin work as our first Fellows in July. Sophie and Peter are both long-running GNOME contributors, with many significant contributions as members of the GNOME community. Sophie is known as developer of apps, libraries, and websites, including Loupe, Pika Backup, Glycin, and welcome.gnome.org. Peter is a long...

Nine months ago, I had to field quite a few angry comments from folks who told me they intended to drop their GNOME Foundation memberships in the wake of confusing and opaque board behaviour. I say to you now what I told each of them back in September: Stay and fight. The GNOME Foundation saw a much needed — and long overdue — changing of the guard back in August of 2025. In the past 12 months, the Foundation has finally made the improvements it should have been making over the past […]

The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2026. The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: *GNOME Board Elections 2026* 2026-05-25: Announcements and list of candidates opens. 2026-06-08: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements. 2026-06-08: Final list of candidates. 2026-06-15: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins. 2026-06-22: Vo...