It’s a big day for GNOME developers, as someone has pledged $1,000,000 over the next two years to the non-profit GNOME Foundation, the driving force behind the popular desktop environment.
The donation will be made by someone who doesn’t want to be public, and the GNOME Foundation will receive the money over the next two years. The GNOME development team has pledged to use the money to hire more developers to improve the Desktop Environment. 
“This specific donation will allow us to support the GNOME project more broadly and address key challenges facing the free software community,” said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
McGovern said that while the GNOME Foundation has managed to stay high on the user’s radar, it hasn’t grown as quickly as he had hoped. But thanks to this anonymous donation, it will be able to expand its activities with the promise of becoming a leader in the free software movement.
The GNOME Foundation is already supported by many big names, including the following: Red Hat, Canonical, Google, Free Software Foundation, Debian, SUSE, The Document Foundation, Sugar Labs, Endless Computers, Private Internet Access, and System76. All of the above companies are members of the GNOME advisory board.
In the coming weeks, the GNOME Foundation will announce more details about the donation along with more information on how they plan to invest the $1,000,000. However, the donations do not stop there, as the project hopes to see larger donations in the coming years.
GNOME is currently one of the most used desktop environments among Linux users. Canonical recently adopted GNOME as the default desktop for Ubuntu, and Purism plans to use a variant of GNOME as the default desktop on its upcoming Librem 5 Linux smartphone.
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GNOME Foundation: One Million Dollar Donation
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