@thibaultamartin Is there a reason this organisation would not be an initiative under the GNOME Foundation and instead a coop? The foundation already employs at least one full-time employee, and I think if it had more money, it could employ more to achieve the goals you mentioned.

Do you mean a coop in the company law sense? Does that mean it would have an income source other than the donations?

(I hope I do not sound negative, I am curious but couldn't express that via text :) )

@thibaultamartin I see discussion about subscription 'vs' bounties in this thread. I just want to throw in Quadratic Voting/Funding as a possibility, although the infrastructure for using it is not so well developed yet.

In any case, I'm interested in the progress of gnome personally, and could imagine supporting.

@thibaultamartin This matches the vision we have for @snowdrift (Snowdrift.coop).

I happen to be a KDE user (but other family uses GNOME). Anyway, point is: I don't want to just unilaterally donate, I want to have a collective agreement with the widest possible crowd and we all just need to chip in a tiny amount.

That's the vision of crowdmatching that @snowdrift has, and the trouble is just being under-resourced itself in terms of getting launched (help welcome!!)

@thibaultamartin A suggestion: why not present a more detailed project, poll for what parts of the project backers are likely to support (and how much) then publish a final project, focusing on the parts that most people seem to want?

Right now I find it difficult to answer to the poll.