The GNOME Foundation strongly encourages and empowers efforts towards diversity and inclusion among its staff and volunteers.
Our team welcomes and encourages participation by everyone. It doesn’t matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you: we welcome you.
We are a non-profit organization and being open and accessible to everyone is in our fundamentals. Diversity and Inclusion are key points for a healthy and successful community, which we strive for in GNOME
Vision:
A thriving GNOME community where everyone feels welcome, valued, and empowered to contribute, regardless of their background, identity, or perspective.
Goals, Initiatives and Our Mission
In 2024, GNOME launched a new initiative called: ‘GNOME Pathways’. Here are the main pillars this initiative is based on regarding DEI goals:
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Events: Organizing diverse and inclusive events such as DEI hackfests, Diversity Birds of Feathers, meetings within and outside the community.
Pathways integrates and builds upon multiple activities to create a more powerful, fundable, and impactful initiative. In order to help make GNOME events more inclusive and diverse, we have a wiki page to collect ideas and checklists for event organizers. Check it out and help us continue to build this resource: How to Host Inclusive Events. -
Mentored Projects:
Mentored Projects: Ensuring support for Outreachy and Google Summer of Code initiatives. Recruiting mentors and leaders from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe, North America, and other key regions to amplify our work in GNOME. -
Supporting programs and initiatives dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in Free and Open Source Software communities, such as workshops held at GUADEC/GNOME.Asia/GNOME Latam and also participating in other initiatives or events outside our community.
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Onboarding: Help newcomers and all underserved genders in tech with their open source journey. We want to make sure that the organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work constantly activate more diverse, underserved, female, LGBTQ+, and younger users and creators worldwide in our organization
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Outreach: Social media campaigns, contributor highlights, etc.
GNOME wants to ensure that high-level organizational messages are defined and communicated consistently. We would also like to ensure that we have a clear and transparent communication plan to reach potential partners, funders, press, donors, corporate sponsors, volunteers, potential board and advisors, and the general public.