Buddies of Budgie was founded to provide a home for the Budgie Desktop, an open source modern desktop environment built to provide you immediate access to the things you need.
Our
Values
Our values are central to our decision-making and how we collaborate, communicate, design and work. These values were shaped by our community from the start to ensure a diverse, healthy, and welcoming community.
Independence
Independence is a crucial value to how we operate as an organization. All organizations and projects are equal stakeholders in the future of the organization and most importantly, the future of the Budgie Desktop platform. No singular for-profit or non-profit entity has the sole influence over our direction.
Transparency
Transparency has been central to how we function from the start. We want to ensure that everyone is able to understand how the organization and Budgie itself works currently and the intended direction going into the future.
User-centric
Buddies of Budgie and the Budgie desktop itself is built for its users. Users are seen as stakeholders in development and day-to-day operations, with a fundamental part of our consensus model for making changes to the organization and our platform being how do our decisions positively impact the end user’s experience. People should feel encouraged to get involved directly, promoting fairness in our ways of working.
How We
Organize
Buddies of Budgie is organized into scoped teams that helps to ensure the organization and our platform is able to be continuously improved while minimizing bottlenecks and maximizing the potential for involvement. From marketing and community engagement, to distribution of Budgie Desktop, translations and more - you can be sure to find a place to get involved.
How We
Collaborate
Budgie Desktop and all of our organization’s source code (including this site!) is entirely open source and developed on GitHub. We leverage GitHub for tracking issues and desired improvements in our software or our organization, as well as GitHub’s discussion forums for long-form public discussions.
The vast majority of our collaboration, support, and general discussions happen on our public Matrix Space. Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, and real-time communication, with Spaces being a way to group rooms and people together. You can use free, open source software like Element get involved with the project.