@cassidy My issue with this is that by "professionalizing" it like this, you've essentially gutted any visibility of the community that the project actually *is*.
Admittedly, I'm not a real GNOME person even though I've contributed a little bit to GNOME, but I used to be a heavy GNOME user. In general, I think giving up the "personality" of projects and communities leads to strictly worse products and services.