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Michael Larabel writes at Phoronix that the GNOME Foundation is running into a budget shortfall and funds are becoming very tight. According to Larabel one of the reasons the Foundation got into this situation is through its Outreach Program for Women (OPW) which had around 30 interns for their most recent cycle and managing the program (and funds) for a number of other participating organizations. The GNOME Foundation staff and board fell behind in their processes with being overwhelmed by administering OPW. "Making matters worse, in their 2014 budget they made assumptions based upon the previous year's incomes and expenditures, which were more optimistic. There's also the matter of payments from GNOME sponsors and others owing the GNOME Foundation money being rather fluid or coming in late."
To rectify their budget shortfall, the Foundation is going through with its invoicing of conference sponsors, more pro-actively following up on unpaid invoices, better invoicing OPW sponsoring, increasing their general fundraising efforts, and taking other efforts. The Foundation also voted last week to "freeze Foundation spending which is not essential to the running of the Foundation. By keeping expenditures to a minimum while some delayed revenue is regained, the board aims to have things back to normal within a few months." Those wishing to support the GNOME Foundation can figure out various donation means by becoming a friend of GNOME.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 15 2014, @04:17PM
No, Apple provides a product people want to use. Apple has never once told me how to work. Besides people have complained about changes Apple has made in OS X and iOS in pretty much every major version.
Nope, those "other platforms" are simply worse. Despite what you jealous nerds think people really do buy Apple products because they like using them not because of this silly cult nonsense.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 15 2014, @04:31PM
You're holding it wrong, fanboy!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Iskender on Tuesday April 15 2014, @06:07PM
Have to agree with this, even though I've never owned a Mac system yet. Take backups: Apple came up with this slickly branded thing where you connect an USB drive, and it syncs a backup for you. It's a really simple technology. But no one else has done it, or at least did it then. In practice, it means Mac users lose data less often.
Yes, I know you can use rsync and whatever. I've also heard people say "that data was lost in an rsync accident". Even if all the program does is make sure the command is run in the right direction, it's still worth paying for.
Also, I've used Unity for a year (switching to Xfce Mint), and it's no OS X (yes, I know Unity is not an OS). It looks like OS X - the same way Russia *looks* like Europe.
Apple products tend to have in-depth attention to detail, and that's why people pay even when the performance may be lower.