GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship (phoronix.com)
(Sunday August 09, 2026 @11:34AM (EditorDavid)
from the danka-shoen dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/09/0519238/gnome-receiving-additional-design-help-from-germanys-sovereign-tech-agency-fellowship
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Design-Fellowship
The [1]new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced [2]This Week in GNOME . There's also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now add visual signatures to PDF documents.
But Phoronix [3]noted one more announcement . "Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a [4]new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management... paid to help developers with design feedback and reviews, mock-up creation, and other GNOME design related efforts..."
From [5]the blog post by GNOME Design Team member Philipp Sauberzweig :
> I have been contributing to GNOME design as a volunteer for several years... I believe that it's essential for a free and democratic society to ensure free and independent access to these technologies. To achieve this goal, end-user devices based on free and open-source software are key, and the GNOME desktop and its app ecosystem offer a powerful alternative to proprietary platforms... This two-year fellowship is a great honor and marks a significant change in my life. It is a unique opportunity for me to devote my skills and experience entirely to a project I strongly believe in.
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> During my two-year fellowship, I will support GNOME maintainers and developers with design feedback and reviews, create mockups, and coordinate efforts to standardize design patterns. My other activities focus on lasting improvements through two strategic initiatives: expanding the design community to increase capacity and enhancing our design tooling to reduce overhead and simplify onboarding... To attract new contributors, I will increase the visibility of design work by writing regular blog posts, giving presentations, and running workshops at conferences and hackathons. New contribution opportunities for newcomers will be created with clear instructions for independent activities such as collecting state-of-the-art examples, running accessibility and user tests, and creating mockups. Design reviews will be used as mentorship opportunities, pairing regular design contributors with experienced designers for peer review and knowledge sharing...
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> If you're interested in contributing to GNOME design, check out the Design Team page on the [6]Welcome to GNOME website, familiarize yourself with the [7]Human Interface Guidelines , and join our [8]Matrix channel . If you're a GNOME developer feel free to reach out to me via Matrix and involve me in design reviews.
[9]Jakub Beránek from the Rust compiler and infrastructure team also earned a fellowship in Germany's Sovereign Tech program, focusing on improving the Rust toolchain's tooling and infrastructure for Rust's developers.
Other fellows include Pablo Neira Ayuso (Linux kernel maintainer for the Netfilter subsystem), CPython core developer Stan Ulbrych, and Python core developer Hugo van Kemenade, FreeBSD contributor Alexander Ziaee.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Boxes-2026
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/08/twig-261/
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Design-Fellowship
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Fellowship-2026
[5] https://blogs.gnome.org/psauberz/2026/08/06/sovereign-tech-fellowship-for-gnome-design-community-management/
[6] https://welcome.gnome.org/de/team/design/
[7] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/
[8] https://matrix.to/#/%23design:gnome.org
[9] https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/08/03/stf-june-july-2026.html
But Phoronix [3]noted one more announcement . "Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a [4]new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management... paid to help developers with design feedback and reviews, mock-up creation, and other GNOME design related efforts..."
From [5]the blog post by GNOME Design Team member Philipp Sauberzweig :
> I have been contributing to GNOME design as a volunteer for several years... I believe that it's essential for a free and democratic society to ensure free and independent access to these technologies. To achieve this goal, end-user devices based on free and open-source software are key, and the GNOME desktop and its app ecosystem offer a powerful alternative to proprietary platforms... This two-year fellowship is a great honor and marks a significant change in my life. It is a unique opportunity for me to devote my skills and experience entirely to a project I strongly believe in.
>
> During my two-year fellowship, I will support GNOME maintainers and developers with design feedback and reviews, create mockups, and coordinate efforts to standardize design patterns. My other activities focus on lasting improvements through two strategic initiatives: expanding the design community to increase capacity and enhancing our design tooling to reduce overhead and simplify onboarding... To attract new contributors, I will increase the visibility of design work by writing regular blog posts, giving presentations, and running workshops at conferences and hackathons. New contribution opportunities for newcomers will be created with clear instructions for independent activities such as collecting state-of-the-art examples, running accessibility and user tests, and creating mockups. Design reviews will be used as mentorship opportunities, pairing regular design contributors with experienced designers for peer review and knowledge sharing...
>
> If you're interested in contributing to GNOME design, check out the Design Team page on the [6]Welcome to GNOME website, familiarize yourself with the [7]Human Interface Guidelines , and join our [8]Matrix channel . If you're a GNOME developer feel free to reach out to me via Matrix and involve me in design reviews.
[9]Jakub Beránek from the Rust compiler and infrastructure team also earned a fellowship in Germany's Sovereign Tech program, focusing on improving the Rust toolchain's tooling and infrastructure for Rust's developers.
Other fellows include Pablo Neira Ayuso (Linux kernel maintainer for the Netfilter subsystem), CPython core developer Stan Ulbrych, and Python core developer Hugo van Kemenade, FreeBSD contributor Alexander Ziaee.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Boxes-2026
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/08/twig-261/
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Design-Fellowship
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Fellowship-2026
[5] https://blogs.gnome.org/psauberz/2026/08/06/sovereign-tech-fellowship-for-gnome-design-community-management/
[6] https://welcome.gnome.org/de/team/design/
[7] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/
[8] https://matrix.to/#/%23design:gnome.org
[9] https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/08/03/stf-june-july-2026.html
Europe is going to have to drop Microsoft (Score:2)
America can no longer be trusted and that goes for American companies. Donald Trump is openly talking about invading Greenland and I cannot believe that's a sentence I just said. And the only reason for him to take your Greenland would be to go and take the rest of Europe.
This is what failing empires do. You put incompetent thieves and rapists in charge of everything and they crashed the economy. In America We lost 123,000 jobs in the last 3 months and that's probably going to be revised to 200,000 by t