From what I can tell, the nature of the program was the reason that they couldn't handle the cash flows. They're a small narrowly-focused foundation aimed at supporting GNOME development, but for some reason they decided to run an outreach program aimed at women for the entire open source and free software community. They've since admitted they didn't have the resources to handle this and it's torpedoed the stuff they were actually meant to be doing.
I'd entirely support them running an outreach program aimed at welcoming women into the GNOME community, though teacup50 might disagree. It's obvious that they should have said no to running one for everyone else though - but who wants to be seen to oppose outreach to women, other than sexists?
I'd entirely support them running an outreach program aimed at welcoming women into the GNOME community, though teacup50 might disagree.
I'd argue that they should modify the program to target all underrepresented individuals, regardless of gender, but I otherwise agree that a program targeted solely at Gnome is within their purview.
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From what I can tell, the nature of the program was the reason that they couldn't handle the cash flows. They're a small narrowly-focused foundation aimed at supporting GNOME development, but for some reason they decided to run an outreach program aimed at women for the entire open source and free software community. They've since admitted they didn't have the resources to handle this and it's torpedoed the stuff they were actually meant to be doing.
I'd entirely support them running an outreach program aimed at welcoming women into the GNOME community, though teacup50 might disagree. It's obvious that they should have said no to running one for everyone else though - but who wants to be seen to oppose outreach to women, other than sexists?
I'd argue that they should modify the program to target all underrepresented individuals, regardless of gender, but I otherwise agree that a program targeted solely at Gnome is within their purview.