anuseems Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 (edited) Open Saucy outfit the GNOME Foundation has run into cash flow problems.The group has been celebrating lately as its Wayland-based compositor has been doing rather well. The recent GNOME 3.12 release has been praised by developers as being "fairly exciting."However, it seems that money is too tight to mention at GNOME Foundation and there is even talk of them having to pawn their wheelbarrows and fishing rods.The Foundation has already frozen non-essential expenses and spent all its cash reserves. The hope is that everything will be ok in the months ahead. One of the problems appears to have been that the outfit set up an Outtreach Programme for Women (OPW) as if women would be interested in doing anything Open Sauce when they should be baking cookies for their developer sons as they energetically code in the basement.The Outreach Program for Women (OPW) which helps women and genderqueer get involved in free and open source software. The programme had been a little too successful and had 30 interns for their most recent cycle.What is more likely for GNOME'S problems is that in its 2014 budget they made assumptions based upon the previous year's incomes and expenditures. Things were better last year.GNOME sponsors and others owing the GNOME Foundation money being rather fluid or coming in late in writing cheques.The Foundation voted last week to freeze Foundation spending which is not essential to the running of the Foundation. http://news.techeye.net/software/gnome-runs-out-of-cash Edited April 19, 2014 by anuseems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 MSFT is laughing like crazy :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 (edited) The Foundation has already frozen non-essential expenses and spent all its cash reserves. The hope is that everything will be ok in the months ahead. One of the problems appears to have been that the outfit set up an Outtreach Programme for Women (OPW) as if women would be interested in doing anything Open Sauce when they should be baking cookies for their developer sons as they energetically code in the basement.I can confirm that when you listen to a woman all the time you will go bankrupt.Did you know that woman designed METRO UI? Edited April 19, 2014 by Avitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 This is the madness you get when you get to spend other peoples money. Luckily the GNOME foundation is privately funded but governments spend even more money on crazy things and when they need more they rob the taxpayer even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackieo Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 The Foundation has already frozen non-essential expenses and spent all its cash reserves. The hope is that everything will be ok in the months ahead. One of the problems appears to have been that the outfit set up an Outtreach Programme for Women (OPW) as if women would be interested in doing anything Open Sauce when they should be baking cookies for their developer sons as they energetically code in the basement.I can confirm that when you listen to a woman all the time you will go bankrupt.Did you know that woman designed METRO UI?Figures..its all touchy-feely.... not user intuitive and always in your face... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anuseems Posted April 19, 2014 Author Share Posted April 19, 2014 The Foundation has already frozen non-essential expenses and spent all its cash reserves. The hope is that everything will be ok in the months ahead. One of the problems appears to have been that the outfit set up an Outtreach Programme for Women (OPW) as if women would be interested in doing anything Open Sauce when they should be baking cookies for their developer sons as they energetically code in the basement. I can confirm that when you listen to a woman all the time you will go bankrupt.Did you know that woman designed METRO UI? Figures..its all touchy-feely.... not user intuitive and always in your face...:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 The Foundation has already frozen non-essential expenses and spent all its cash reserves. The hope is that everything will be ok in the months ahead. One of the problems appears to have been that the outfit set up an Outtreach Programme for Women (OPW) as if women would be interested in doing anything Open Sauce when they should be baking cookies for their developer sons as they energetically code in the basement.I can confirm that when you listen to a woman all the time you will go bankrupt.Did you know that woman designed METRO UI?Can you cite your source for the Metro UI Comment? or were you joking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Can you cite your source for the Metro UI Comment? or were you joking?Google is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Can you cite your source for the Metro UI Comment? or were you joking?Google is your friend.Only pertinent thing I could find. It says that women seem to like it better... nothing more.http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/13479_Building_a_different_kind_of_U.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I got 50 pence spare if they need it.Or the Gnome can put his fishing rod into some water and maybe catch some monies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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