GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund
The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization, recently announced that GNOME project received €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.
GNOME ( GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Linux distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE has support for GNOME desktop. GNOME is in the open-source field for almost 25 years. It is funded and contributed by many volunteers around the globe.
Sovereign Tech Fund team has over 30 years of combined experience in open source funding and brings diverse backgrounds from startups, NGOs, research organizations and corporations. They accept applications on an ongoing basis to support open digital base technologies in the public interest. They have done investments in many open source projects like OpenJS Foundation, Yocto project, Apache Airflow, Wireguard, OpenBDPd.
GNOME is planning to use the investment to
- 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
This is a good initiative by Sovereign Tech Fund. The investments will greatly help GNOME project to sustain and improve their features.