Est. January 1, 2022
An independent organization dedicated to the development of Budgie Desktop and fostering a welcoming, diverse community.
Our Mission
We believe in creating software that is simple, elegant, and accessible to all users. We build Budgie not just as a desktop, but as a foundation; serving everyday users with an approachable experience while enabling developers to experiment with new ways of interacting with computing devices.
The core leadership team guiding the direction of the organization and the Budgie Desktop project.
The Distribution and Packaging team ensures Budgie Desktop is available and well-integrated across various Linux distributions.
Joshua Strobl
Fedora
Campbell Jones
Arch Linux
David Mohammed
Debian / Ubuntu
Evan Maddock
Solus
All organizations and projects are equal stakeholders in the future of Budgie Desktop. No singular for-profit or non-profit entity has sole influence over our direction. Budgie is viewed as a platform that encourages distributions to ship it in a manner that best satisfies their user base.
Transparency has been central to how we function from the start. We strive for proactive communication on plans for the organization and projects, fostering public discussions through our Matrix Space and Forgejo. More information enables smarter decision-making.
Buddies of Budgie and Budgie Desktop is built for its users. Users are stakeholders in development and operations. Our consensus model ensures decisions positively impact the end user experience. People should feel encouraged to get involved directly.
Buddies of Budgie is first and foremost a diverse community, with people of all different skill sets and origins, that come together to contribute to and promote open source software.
The best place to start getting involved is our Matrix Space.
What is Matrix?
Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations.
You can access Matrix Spaces with clients such as Element.
Buddies of Budgie software is open source and primarily written in either C or Vala (Budgie 10) and C++/QML (Budgie 11).
There is always room for improvement for documentation around Budgie Desktop and our organization. Visit our documentation site to learn how to contribute.
Making software accessible to users around the world, in their native language, is incredibly important to the success of our project. To facilitate translations, Buddies of Budgie uses the Transifex platform.
Buddies of Budgie is a volunteer-driven organization. We accept donations through OpenCollective to support infrastructure costs, development tools, and other organizational needs.
Your support helps us maintain CI/CD infrastructure, domain registrations, and potentially compensate contributors for significant work.
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