Buddies of Budgie
Fiscal Host: Open Source Collective
Developers of the Budgie Desktop, a feature rich and modern desktop environment for Linux.
Estimated Annual Budget
$3,144
Today's Balance
$4,170.62
About
The Pitch
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, and keep out of the way when you need it to most. Website is available here.
Budgie Desktop provides a multitude of features that helps to accomplish this, such as:
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, and keep out of the way when you need it to most. Website is available here.
Budgie Desktop provides a multitude of features that helps to accomplish this, such as:
- Budgie Menu: Budgie Menu shows you all your installed applications, neatly organized into categories to improve discoverability, and with lightning fast application searching! No more diving into sub-menus to find the app you need.
- Raven: Raven is an all-in-one center for accessing your calendar, controlling sound output and input (including per-app volume control), media playback and more. Raven also enables you to access missed notifications, with the ability to clear away individual notifications, grouped notifications, and all notifications.
- Run Dialog: Quickly launch apps without lifting a finger!
Budgie is an extensible and adaptable desktop. With a rich ecosystem of extensions developed the community and a ton of customization options from supported themes, panel configuration, and more -- you can make Budgie feel like home.
Buddies of Budgie
The original focal point of Budgie was the operating system evolveOS (nowadays called Solus). As the project evolved, other operating systems introduced support for our environment, and some even were created out of a desire to marry our desktop environment with the user's preferred choice of operating system (like Ubuntu Budgie).
Buddies of Budgie is the result of years of engagement with this global community of contributors and consumers. Our "North Star" is transforming historically "downstream" consumers of Budgie into partners, involved directly in Budgie's evolution and development. Some of our other pillars are:
The original focal point of Budgie was the operating system evolveOS (nowadays called Solus). As the project evolved, other operating systems introduced support for our environment, and some even were created out of a desire to marry our desktop environment with the user's preferred choice of operating system (like Ubuntu Budgie).
Buddies of Budgie is the result of years of engagement with this global community of contributors and consumers. Our "North Star" is transforming historically "downstream" consumers of Budgie into partners, involved directly in Budgie's evolution and development. Some of our other pillars are:
- Being open-minded to new ideas that can help positively shape a Linux user's experience, new and existing alike, while not compromising on the vision for Budgie.
- Focusing on being a platform rather than a product. Distributors of Budgie Desktop and users should not feel like their choice of theming, applications, or default styles should be at odds with the goals of the project. More focus should be put into enabling these "consumers", with a sane set of customization capabilities and APIs that facilitate extensibility.
- Interoperability with standards (e.g. FreeDesktop standards, Wayland protocols), whether that be in Budgie 11 or historic Budgie 10.x.
What We Have Done Since Founding Buddies of Budgie
- Iterated across multiple Budgie 10 series releases, formally bringing it to a close with Budgie 10.10. Budgie 10.10 introduced the monumental change of migrating us from X11 to Wayland. Budgie 10.10 is the last Budgie major release to leverage GTK3 and other parts of the GNOME ecosystem.
- Announced our plans and toolkit for Budgie 11, with active development now ongoing. We will leverage Qt6 for Budgie 11, and work with others on building out an ecosystem and desktop components to better enable others to ship the experience they want!
The Future
The immediate goals for Budgie going into the future are:
The immediate goals for Budgie going into the future are:
- Development of Budgie 11, a complete re-architecture of Budgie Desktop that should facilitate new ways of interacting with the core of Budgie, a new desktop, and a new toolkit.
- Excel in Continuous Integration / Delivery, enabling a clear end-to-end pipeline from code changes to automated testing in ISOs.
How Does Financial Contributions Help?
Financially contributing to Buddies of Budgie will enable us to:
Financially contributing to Buddies of Budgie will enable us to:
- Leverage no-compromise Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery systems for streamlining Budgie 11 development
- Acquire hardware to better test and enable Budgie features or support.
- Provide opportunities for compensated development, triaging, translations, etc.
The long term goal of Buddies of Budgie is to eventually enable full-time development to accelerate development.
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Financial Contributions
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Individuals
Knuckchucks
$1,300 USD since Mar 2025
Joe Alden
$1,235 USD since Jan 2022
jprostko
$500 USD since Jan 2022
Julien Guillot
$490 USD since Jan 2022
bwrst
$270 USD since Jun 2023
Kuuchuu
$260 USD since Jan 2022
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Incognito
$260 USD since Jan 2022
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$250 USD since Dec 2025
Collin
$230 USD since Jan 2022
Wini-Buh
$210 USD since Mar 2024
Denton Davenport
$185 USD since Apr 2023
James
$170 USD since Jun 2022
Peter Paterson
$165 USD since Jan 2022
Nelson Truran
$145 USD since Dec 2023
Marcus Mellor
$135 USD since Jan 2024
Organizations
Spreadshirt
$10.62 USD since Feb 2022
Buttercup
$10.18 USD since Mar 2024
Buddies of Budgie is all of us
Our contributors 101
Thank you for supporting Buddies of Budgie.
Joshua Strobl
Admin
$50 USD
Neal Gompa
Admin
Knuckchucks
sponsor
$1,300 USD
jprostko
backer
$500 USD
Julien Guillot
backer
$490 USD
bwrst
backer
$270 USD
Kuuchuu
backer
$260 USD
Incognito
backer
$260 USD
Budget
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Today’s balance$4,170.62 USD
Total raised
$7,301.80 USD
Total disbursed
$3,131.18 USD
Estimated annual budget
$3,144.21 USD
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News from Buddies of Budgie
Updates on our activities and progress.
Chirp #7: Dialog Fixes, Crystal Dock Support, and App Matching Improvements
Hey everyone! Chirp #7 is live! We've had a busy week squashing bugs and polishing things up ahead of Budgie Desktop 10.10.2, which is planned for this Saturday (March 7th). The post covers dialog focus fixes, Crystal Dock support, environm...
Published on March 1, 2026 by Joshua Strobl
Chirp #6: Clear Skies Ahead for Budgie Desktop 10.10.2
Hey everyone! A new Chirp is out — check it out here: https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/chirp-6 Budgie Desktop 10.10.2 is shaping up nic...
Published on February 22, 2026 by Joshua Strobl
Chirp #5: Budgie 11 Priorities, Panel Config, and 10.10 Polish
Hey everyone! Chirp #5 is now out. This week Evan, Neal, and I sat down to map out short and mid-term priorities for Budgie 11, defining must-haves and nice-to-haves for Preview 1, which will be the first public build featuring elements of...
Published on February 15, 2026 by Joshua Strobl