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Cake day: December 8th, 2022

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  • Gnome is great, and I commend the devs for having the bollocks to come out and say “No, we don’t think Microsoft perfected OS UX in the early 90s”, and do something different that works well, despite knowing the amount of hatred and even death threats they’d get for the change.

    Good to read your take on that bit of history, thanks. On one computer where I have GNOME, it is really nice and comfortable for what I use it for.






  • https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

    Update 2024-04-27: It was suggested in the Discourse thread that I clarify the interaction between the break-even budget and the 1M EUR committed by the STF project. This money is received in the form of a contract for services rather than a grant to the Foundation, and must be spent on the development areas agreed during the planning and application process. It’s included within this year’s budget (October 23 – September 24) and is all expected to be spent during this fiscal year, so it doesn’t have an impact on the Foundation’s reserves position. The Foundation retains a small % fee to support its costs in connection with the project, including the new requirement to have our accounts externally audited at the end of the financial year. We are putting this money towards recruitment of an administrative assistant to improve financial and other operational support for the Foundation and community, including the STF project and future development initiatives.

    (also posted to GNOME Discourse, please head there if you have any questions or comments)






  • So I think we will be setting up a fediverse instance for this (Still trying to decide between Pixelfed, Mastodon and Firefish), but,

    An alternative for Mastodon or Firefish is GoToSocial Till the end of the year they have two developers working on it full-time.

    before that, we need to solve a simpler issue: a Calendar of Events.

    • I’d be careful with Nextcloud. It can look very nice from the outside but beware of the hype. If you go read forums posts you will likely see several complaints about how slow it is for some and how buggy some parts of Nextcloud are (Take for example the “suspicious login” app).

    • Mobilizon looks nice though I’ve unfortunately not have had the chance to self-host and try it myself.