[$] Free-software foundations face fundraising problems

In July, at the GNOME https://lwn.net/Articles/983203/
 (AGM),
held at <a href="https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/12/20/guadec-2024-in-denver-colorado/" rel="nofollow">GUADEC
2024</a>,
the message from the GNOME Foundation board was that all was well,
financially speaking. Not great, but the foundation was on a
break-even budget and expected to go into its next fiscal year with a
similar budget and headcount. On October 7, however, the board https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-board-2024-10/

that it had had to make some cuts, including reducing its staff by
two people. This is not, however, strictly a GNOME problem: similar
organizations, such as the Python Software Foundation (PSF), KDE e.V., 
and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are seeing declines in
fundraising while also being affected by inflation.

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