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GNOME has received recognition as a Public Interest Infrastructure, and so they've been awarded €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund.

"GNOME has played a major role in the Free Software, Open Source, and Linux desktop ecosystem for more than 25 years. The GNOME community is dedicated, diverse, and dynamic. The GNOME desktop and apps are used by millions of people and its technologies are deployed on countless devices and products.

We are excited to see the GNOME project recognized as critical digital infrastructure and are grateful to Sovereign Tech Fund for supporting our initiatives for GNOME and the wider Linux desktop." — GNOME Foundation

The GNOME Foundation say this money will go towards these projects:

  • Improve the current state of accessibility.
  • Design and prototype a new accessibility stack.
  • Encrypt user home directories individually.
  • Modernize secrets storage.
  • Increase the range and quality of hardware support.
  • Invest in Quality Assurance and Developer Experience.
  • Expand and broaden freedesktop APIs.
  • Consolidate and improve platform components.

See the announcement here.

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Linux_Rocks Nov 10, 2023
I didn't know that the Sovereign had a tech fund...

Brokatt Nov 10, 2023
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I don't see "Improve the state of VRR."
Highball Nov 10, 2023
Quoting: BrokattI don't see "Improve the state of VRR."

Is this helpful?
$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate']"
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1154
wvstolzing Nov 10, 2023
Quoting: Linux_RocksI didn't know that the Sovereign had a tech fund...

No! This has to be the Reapers' Indoctrination Fund!!!




Last edited by wvstolzing on 10 November 2023 at 3:27 pm UTC
Purple Library Guy Nov 10, 2023
Quoting: wvstolzing
Quoting: Linux_RocksI didn't know that the Sovereign had a tech fund...

No! This has to be the Reapers' Indoctrination Fund!!!

Is that . . . a fountain pen nib?
wvstolzing Nov 10, 2023
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: wvstolzing
Quoting: Linux_RocksI didn't know that the Sovereign had a tech fund...

No! This has to be the Reapers' Indoctrination Fund!!!

Is that . . . a fountain pen nib?

I mean, he says something along the lines of "our numbers will blot out the sky" at one point -- so maybe he was talking about ink blots after all.
ElectricPrism Nov 10, 2023
Considering the large number of sudden deaths this year, I wonder if some FOSS people would be interested in codifying certain FOSS projects as recipients in the event of their death.

I could easily think of a dozen FOSS projects that would be worthy recipients in my opinion.

Even what 1M could do for GIMP if they can get the foundation squared up.
F.Ultra Nov 12, 2023
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Quoting: BrokattI don't see "Improve the state of VRR."

Very few people care about VRR, which is also why it have taken so long to get it implemented.


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 13 November 2023 at 11:08 am UTC
Eike Nov 13, 2023
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Quoting: F.UltraVery few people care about VRR, which is also why it have taken so long to get it implemented.

I find it very hard to believe that. Without VRR, you get either flickering or might be losing quite a bit of the performance you payed for (plus added input lag, but that probably is something not many people care for). When thinking about it, the monitor displaying the image when it's ready instead of some hundreds of bucks of CPU plus possibly many hundreds of bucks of GPU waiting for the monitor is the world as it's supposed to be.
Liam Dawe Nov 13, 2023
Comments have been cleaned up. Won't be discussing why but I'll be clear on this again: we really don't appreciate stupid far-right conspiracy crap on who is behind funding. Please don't go there and any other comments on it will be removed which includes referencing my comment here. Please continue on as normal, happy Monday! :)
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