Building the Public Interest Desktop
summary
Gnome receives a $1M budget and hires 28 contractors to fund maintenance work via the Sovereign Tech Fund; outcomes include keyring rewritten in Rust, systemd-homed integration for encrypt-on-suspend, automated CVE tracking and a back-bounty program. Accessibility sees Orca fixes and a Wayland Newton prototype; hardware work adds variable refresh rate, fractional scaling and hardware-accelerated screencasting. Flatback gains a new file Chooser using noos and a USB portal for sandboxed apps.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:26What is GNOME and public interest tech
- 3:10Who uses GNOME and who funds it
- 5:19Sovereign Tech Fund and its mission
- 6:03Project overview and budget breakdown
- 8:10Key improvements and fixes achieved
- 12:00Takeaways and effectiveness of the program
- 13:25Future potential and recommendations
- 14:27Closing remarks and Q&A
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