Women outreach program causes budget shortfall for Gnome Foundation

The Gnome Foundation, overseer of the Gnome user interface, has run out of cash. The news isn’t entirely bad: the Foundation says one of the programs it runs, the “Outreach Program for Women… has proven to be extremely popular”. OPW engages interns who Gnome must pay on a regular schedule. But “incoming payments from sponsoring organizations are very fluid, thus we have had to front the costs of OPW. Fronting these costs has resulted in a budget shortfall” and a decision to “… freeze Foundation spending which is not essential to the running of the Foundation.