[$] Free-software foundations face fundraising problems

In July, at the GNOME annual general meeting (AGM),held at GUADEC2024,the message from the GNOME Foundation board was that all was well,financially speaking. Not great, but the foundation was on abreak-even budget and expected to go into its next fiscal year with asimilar budget and headcount. On October7, however, the board announcedthat it had had to make some cuts, including reducing its staff bytwo people. This is not, however, strictly a GNOME problem: similarorganizations, such as the Python Software Foundation (PSF), KDEe.V., and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are seeing declines infundraising while also being affected by inflation.