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Last week I volunteered my weekend to help represent the GNOME foundation at the Utah Open Source Conference. The conference was a lot of fun and we got to meet a lot of interesting people as they came to say “Hi” at our booth. I found that a large percentage of the conference attendees were “Fans of GNOME”, and we even took some pictures with many of them.

Will is one of the conference organizers.

The Ubuntu Utah booth guys representing our favorite distribution, all decked out in brown!

Paul Frields from the Fedora Project came to show us some GNOME love.

Our friends from the OpenVZ booth next door. I heard their speech so many times I feel like I could have run their booth myself!

Clint, giving us his biggest smile!

Even our friends from KDE came by to show us that we can all just get along.

Here we have Josh trying to recreate the GNOME foot.

Derek is excited to see us!

..and finally, my favorite, Mike Basinger REALLY showing us how much he likes GNOME!

As you can see, the conference was a lot of fun and I had a great time being a part of GNOME for the weekend. Since that time I have started contributing to GNOME a bit more. I’m still trying to find just the right place, but I’ve been meeting a lot of new people and learning about a lot of the exciting things coming up for GNOME 3.0! There are some exciting things coming up, and there is a lot of work to be done. I know we can make it all happen with your help.

If you are a “Fan of GNOME” I invite you to become an official “Friend of GNOME” by contributing to the GNOME foundation. You can find out more at the “Become a Friend of GNOME” website. You can donate any amount, and all donations are very much appreciated. Together we can make GNOME do great things! Thank you.

I spent some time this evening considering the current status of this blog and the amount of traffic that comes through here on a daily basis.  When I first started this blog I never imagined it would become as popular as it has!  Something that started on an old Pentium III 500Mhz throwaway machine under my desk has evolved into something much bigger, and much more expensive to maintain!  I have been very pleased to be a part of this project and I would very much like to continue doing this, but I need your help.

I spend, on average, ten hours a week working on this site and its contents.  This is on top of my regular fourty-hour job as well as family and church responsibilities.  This, as you can imagine, is a good chunk of my time.  Recently the maintenance has become much more of a focus as the site traffic continues to rise.  I have needed to fine-tune aspects of the current server in an attempt to keep things running smoothly.

For nearly two years I have tried to provide the community with regular, useful tutorials.  I have tried very hard to make the content easy to follow and simple to implement.  I know, based on countless emails, that many of you have found this site very useful.  I would now like to ask for something small in return.

If you are able, please consider a donation to the site.  These donations will be used to improve the server hardware and compensate me for my continued time and effort.  Any amount, even $5 is greatly appreciated!

If you are not able to make a monetary donation, please consider the simpler task of disabling Adblock on this site.  Currently a very, very small percentage of the traffic to this site allows the ads to be displayed.  This results in a very small return for my effort.  If you have found this content useful, please consider this option.

Lastly, for the thousands of you that follow this blog by way of RSS and email.  Please consider visiting the site when you have found an article useful.  If the content helped you–if you’re experience with Ubuntu was improved by content here–please consider helping.

You’ll find a summary of the Fundraiser on the right-sidebar as well as a donation form on the Fundraiser page.

Thank You,

Christer Edwards

Author, Ubuntu-Tutorials.com