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GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure
(foundation.gnome.org)
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I hope they also look at Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop. It's massively popular and that team work very hard. I'm sure they could use that support to help them focus on improving Cinnamon, the toolkit, accessibility etc.
Happy for Gnome though, they are a long standing project and used by many distro's. I have used Gnome in the past and it's decent, although a little heavy on RAM.
Would be great to see Debian also get this, being one of the oldest Linux distro's and the basis for Ubuntu, which in turn has spawned many distros.