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Jun 29, 2026, 10:42 AMContinuing with what we have informally called our "gayllery", today we move on to actual active KDE and @gnome contributors, starting with...
Meet Florian Müllner! (he/him)🏳️🌈 gay GNOME contributor.
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- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 10:42 AM
Florian started contributing around 2009, as he said if his contribution was a person, it would be aproaching voting age right now. He contributes to gnome-shell, but also mutter, gnome-shell-extensions, polari. In addtion, as he has been around for a while, there's the occasional contribution to other bits and pieces around GNOME (GTK, control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, ...).
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 10:43 AM
Florian finds GNOME a great community that welcomed him with open arms (once he dared to make the jump). He found some real friends over time.
There is also the mission. Providing a computing platform that is driven by vision and need rather than monetization opportunities and a strive for market domination is as important as it ever was.
Last but not least, when GNOME builds an OS "for everyone", that includes him. When GNOME gets better, so does his computing experience. - KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 10:44 AM
He likes all kinds of physical activity — walking, hiking, riding a bike. During the pandemic, he got hooked on variant sudoku, and it has been part of his daily routine ever since.
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- GNOMEgnome@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 12:46 PM
I also like to write stuff in my blog: https://akselmo.dev/
Contributions to KomoDo are welcome, if there's anything specific: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/komodo
Then you can check my other projects: https://sr.ht/~akselmo/
And I have my games too: https://akselmo.itch.io/
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- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 5:00 PM
Meet Federico Mena Quintero (he/him --- @federicomena ) a bi/pan @gnome developer.
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 5:00 PM
He is one of GNOME's founders! 😀 So, he has been around since 1996 or so.
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 5:00 PM
Federico has contributed to a bunch of modules in GNOME - gnome-libs, gnome-panel, GTK, Midnight Commander, gnome-canvas, Evolution, Nautilus. Currently he maintains librsvg.
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 5:01 PM
produce software infrastructure for "everyone". In his own words, "It is heartwarming to see this infra get used in countries like mine (Mexico), without having to ask permission or pay megacorps to use their products. And now that we are setting up the infrastructure like Flathub, this should open similar doors to independent app developers."
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 29, 2026, 5:01 PM
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 30, 2026, 11:00 AM
Meet Sam Hewitt (they/them (preferred) he/him (acceptable)) 🏳️🌈, 💛🤍💜🖤
They have been contributing to the design of @gnome for many years, they have left their mark on the user interface, experience, icons, and such of many GNOME modules and websites. They joined in 2013 although they have lost track of when they started being more directly involved with GNOME, as they were floating around other projects. 😅
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- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 30, 2026, 11:01 AM
They find it important to contribute to GNOME and FLOSS. The fact these communities and projects are independent and driven by the people involved drew them to FLOSS, and GNOME. They believe that we, the passionate nerds who make up the community, make the platforms, apps, and software we use better because we want it to be better for ourselves and our peers.
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 30, 2026, 11:02 AM
They also think FLOSS communities like GNOME, KDE and many others are a vital, moral core in tech space (even more so today). They found them in their formative years and the passion and views of the people in the community they believe did them good and instilled an ethical framework that they have carried ever since, it's important to keep that going and lead by example.
- KDEkde@floss.socialJun 30, 2026, 11:02 AM
They are an enthusiastic player of community-made Classic DOOM maps, that scene shares a scrappy ethos similar to FLOSS spaces that they appreciate, plus it's fun!
- GNOMEgnome@floss.socialJun 30, 2026, 5:01 PM
Meet Kieryn Darkwater (they/them)!
They work on Akademy and other community, social, and collaborative events/projects with KDE (like this one!).
- GNOMEgnome@floss.socialJun 30, 2026, 5:03 PM
They contribute to KDE & FOSS because "FLOSS at large has been a part of my life since I was a broke teenager learning how to organise communities. Digital sovereignty and programs that work across platforms without a subscription is crucial to grassroots movements, especially now. KDE in particular is important to me because the community is full of smart, passionate, and kind people who want to make the world a better place."
Libre>Gratislibreovergratis@mastodon.socialJun 30, 2026, 5:47 PMAlright I'm just gonna say it and take my lashings.
I care far less about the sexual identity of the person writing the code, than I do about the quality of their work, and the integrity of the project.
Gnome contributors are constantly getting into political spats with other projects while gnome continues to lag behind other DEs in usability.
I made the decision to stop using gnome a year ago, and now I make the decision to unfollow the account.
Tau :raccoon_blep:tautropfli@hachyderm.ioJun 29, 2026, 2:22 PM
Jörg Baranczekjoergba@mastodon.socialJul 2, 2026, 9:23 AM@kde @gnome @fmuellner Bist du der Entwickler der besten Gnome-Extentions weltweit.?
Wenn ja danke vielmals du rettest die Gnome Shell vor dem Untergang ;-)
