It’s Friday, which means that it’s time for another GNOME Foundation update. Here’s what’s been happening over the past week.

Work in progress

We currently have a number of work items that are in progress, but which we aren’t quite ready to talk about in detail yet. This includes progress on GIMP’s development grants, as well as updates to our policies, conversations with lawyers, and ongoing work on the budget for the next financial year. We’ll be providing updates about these items in the coming weeks once they’re closer to completion. I just wanted to mention them here to emphasise that these things are ongoing.

Banking

Some of our directors have been looking at our bank accounts this week, to see if we can improve how we manage our savings. We have a call set up with one of our banks for later today, and will likely be making some changes in the coming weeks.

Digital wellbeing

As mentioned previously, our digital wellbeing program, which is being funded by a grant from Endless, is in its final stages. Philip and Ignacy who are working on the project are making good progress, and we had a call this week to review progress and plan next steps. Many thanks to the maintainers who have been helping to review this work so we can get it merged before the end of the project.

Regular board meeting

Board meetings happen on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, so we had another regular board meeting this week. The Board reviewed and discussed the budget again, and signed off on a funding decision that required its approval.

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That’s it! See you in a week.