Welcome to mid-December! Where I am this month is a pretty cold affair… at night it’s 2 or 3 degrees above freezing. Maybe you’re in a tropical place and the nights are 30 degrees warmer. Or maybe you’re somewhere that drops down to 20 or 30 below freezing. The world is a big place! (Or maybe you’re in one of those 10 remaining countries that use fahrenheit to measure temperature.. if so, I’m sorry for you ; -)

I didn’t do much in the world of open source this month besides reviewing a few patches.

I am still using GNOME and Fedora every day for my work… at zero cost! If I’d paid for Microsoft Windows I’d be down almost 200€. So I made a few one off donations split between:

• GNOME Foundation
• Hari Rana
• Sophie Herold

Thanks to Hari’s blog post for reminding us how important it is to donate.

Who did I miss that is contributing to making excellent desktop software in difficult times?

(I know that regular donations are more helpful … I have a few dozen of those already, listed here . The list can always change : -).