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Analysis of GNOME Foundation's public economy: concerns and thoughts

Software Development, I also have an interest in governance and finances. Therefore, last July, I was quite happy to attend my first Annual General Meeting (AGM), taking place in GUADEC in Riga.

Despite their wide goal, the tax fillings are not very hard to read, and it’s easy to learn how much money the foundation made or spent. The answer mostly covered an explanation of the big deficits in the previous year (that would have been great to have in the Annual Report), but was otherwise generally disappointing. Most of my concerns (all of which are detailed below) were answered with nicely-written variations of: “that’s a small problem, we are aware of it and working on it”, or “this is not common practice and you can find unrelated information in X place”.

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