Recently, Tobias Bernard posted a retrospective of his (and our) experience engaging with the GNOME Foundation regarding the removal of Sonny Piers from our community, followed by a response from Allan Day. I know it's difficult and stressful to talk about; a lot of people just want it to go away. It took a long time to write this.
This is going to be a bit of a sporadic blog post covering XDG Intents, GSoC and few other updates from GNOME goings on.
With GNOME 46.2 released, it seems like a good time to write a post about goings on in GNOME Online Accounts and other STF-funded initiatives. There's a lot to be excited about this cycle and most of it is leading to more improvements in the near future.
One of our goals for the <a href="https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/09/gnome-recognized-as-public-interest-infrastructure/">Sovereign Tech Fund</a> is to modernize platform infrastructure, in line with the mission to support security and resilience in open source software. For GNOME Online Accounts, this meant tightening up the code base and shifting focus to prioritize open protocols.
This year, I was invited by Sonny Piers to be a co-mentor for the GNOME Foundation, working on platform demos for Workbench. I already contribute a lot of entry-level documentation and help a lot of contributors, so this felt like a good step in a direction I've been heading for a while.