Canonical donated to Gnome.

[NightwishFan]

Check out the banner here:
http://www.gnome.org/

That was very nice of them, and the others to donate.

[_h_]

Keep up the good work Canonical! Doing great things for everyone!

[castrojo]

Anyone can donate to GNOME, feel free to help!

http://www.gnome.org/friends/

[HappinessNow]

Incredible to see all the major sponsors, Thanks to Canonical, Google, Nokia, Collabora, Friends of GNOME and all who donated! :p

[NightwishFan]

Anyone can donate to GNOME, feel free to help!

http://www.gnome.org/friends/

Thanks for the link.

[3rdalbum]

Wow, that's a great donation from Canonical.

[swoll1980]

Canonical does alot for open source, despite what many people would have you believe.

[RichardLinx]

How are they going to pay that sys admin next year?

GNOME-Guy:"Yeah we can only pay you half of what we said we would.."

Sys-Admin: "What... Why?"

GNOME-Guy: "Donations didn't meet our expectations.."

You can probably figure out the rest for yourself. :D

[swoll1980]

How are they going to pay that sys admin next year?

GNOME-Guy:"Yeah we can only pay you half of what we said we would.."

Sys-Admin: "What... Why?"

GNOME-Guy: "Donations didn't meet our expectations.."

You can probably figure out the rest for yourself. :D

wuh?

[RichardLinx]

wuh?

On the Gnome donation banner it says:

The GNOME Project needs your help!

GNOME Foundation wants to hire a sysadmin so that GNOME developers can focus on GNOME
I just presumed that's where the donated money is going to go.

[Paqman]

Mark Shuttleworth is also personally a major sponsor of KDE, IIRC.

[ssam]

did you know you can donate to gnome by using amazon.

http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/

[t.rei]

Just imagine what the free software world could have done with the kind of money those "big" bankers got by whining... *grml*

I am happy to donate my 10€ a month. (not even two packs of cigarettes!)
"No single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood." (read it on a demotivational at despair inc I think).

One of the beauties of FOSS is, that it's the 'everyone can have a part' thing in the modern world. And unlike many democracies, this still works on a highly efficient and productive level. :D

[lz1dsb]

Thanks for the link. I also made a donation. I can't afford a monthly subscription right now, but maybe in future...

[gnomeuser]

Every year I evaluate who to donate to, This year I an renewing my EFF membership and I am adding a monthly donating to GNOME which I have been meaning to do for a while. Thank you for the reminder.

Aside that there are many fine one time requests from certain developers, Richad Hughes e.g. recently requested help to buy equipment to improve gnome-color-manager which many willing donations (mine included) helped happen.