2020 was a difficult year for everybody. As with everyone else, the events of the foundation were directly affected by the pandemic. It was a year of change as we adapted to the new environment.
We are excited to share some of our best moments, achievements, and great online events that happened throughout the year in our annual report
Highlights include:
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CHALLENGE â where we started our inaugural challenge to create new and better ways to engage new contributors. Phase One concluded in July and we received entries from a wide range of established applications and programs as well as start-up efforts.
TWO GNOME RELEASE, Orbis (3.38) and Gresik (3.36) â Many improvements landed such as new login and lock screens, a new Welcome tour, and drag-and-drop support in the application grid. The 3.38 release was also the first release for which we have provided our own installer images for debugging and testing purposes.
FIVE EVENTS AND FIVE HACKFEST â All our events this year were online due to Covid-19.
EIGHTEEN INTERNS â GNOME hosted fourteen students who successfully finished the Google Summer of Code, and two who successfully completed Outreachy internships. We also participated in Google Season of Docs with two technical writers who successfully finished the program.
PATENT SETTLEMENT â After 18 months of legal discussion with a patent assertion entity, a settlement was reached on On May 21Ëąá” 2020. We were pleased with the terms of the settlement.
For more information and details please see the Annual Report
2020 wouldnât have been this awesome without you!
Cheers and looking forward to the coming years.
The final Challenge winner will be announced in April, 2021.
Hehe, timey wimey I see
We have 836 total users and 1051 total rooms.
Is this a typo? General 1050 has members and 1:1 members:rooms seems âŠodd
Additionally, I assume these numbers include DMs as the directory only seems to have a few dozen public rooms - would be interesting to know the split here (and how many of those DMs are with Rocket.CatâŠ)
[Given other sections speak of things that have already happened I wonder when this data was collected?]
The total number of messages that have been sent through the system are 138041.
Given the reported number of rooms (and the existence of bots, though GitLab Notifications seem to have broken since I last looked) this seems quite low (or is that only counting public rooms?) Must admit Iâm a tad unclear on the difference between âmessages sent through the systemâ and âmessages in channelsâ
Total uploads have been 1543.
Heh, I think â 6% of them are Clocks 3.36 designs/prototypes
Foreign currencies are converted to USD.
I know the GNOME Foundation is a USian 501(c)(3) but I do wonder how appropriate âforeignâ is when we are very much a global community. Just an idle thought.
The numbers here are from October 2019-2020. It doesnât include the activities from 2021 or the numbers from year 2021.
When we have collected the data, thatâs what the numbers were.
Huh? I think Iâm having a blond moment - The report talks of totals, which I took as âthe complete state at point Xâ, is it actually a delta over those 12 months?
Canât remember when chat.gnome.org came online but I guess the number of users in Oct 2019 would have been small suggesting that, assuming current members of general is an accurate count, weâve almost doubled in the not-quite year since Oct 2020 - nice
I still wonder about the room count though, do we really have hundreds of rooms with 1.25 people in them?
Or is a room just a (user, channel) pair? i.e. the average user is in 1.25 channels (with around 200 channels existing) rather than the average channel having 1.25 people
Probably isnât helping that Iâm a little unclear on Rocket terminology
I assume the PDF document is again created by Caroline Henriksen with the FOSS Scribus software? Looks nice indeed.
Now a few questions. I can not really understand the Income listing on page 11. Donations is obvious, but what is Administrative Fees, Advisory Board, Conferences, Events, Internships, Interest? Conferences and Events seems to generate costs, not income? And the other terms â sorry I am not a lawyers, but I guess this PDF is not only for lawyers?
The Expenses seems to be more obvious, but for the Employees part some more details would be nice. I think one of the employees was (and still is I hope?) Mr. Bassi for GTK development. You may have your reasons to not name the other employees, but the total number of full time and part time employees and their concrete working areas would be interested too.
but the total number of full time and part time employees and their concrete working areas would be interested too.
That part is available at Our Team â The GNOME Foundation (under Foundation Staff). You canât see there whether itâs full time or part time there though, but you can at least know whoâs being employed and whatâs their job.
Mostly persons whos names I have never seen before. And the one who did so much GTK work and answer 90% of our forum questions is not listed? Well the other one is not listed as well, but I think he is an employee of Red Hat company.
is for sad, you should still feel free to ask questions