This document discusses ways to improve the developer experience (DX) for the GNOME desktop environment to help attract more contributors. It suggests adding a "Developer Mode" switch to make GNOME development tools easily accessible. It also proposes creating "GNOME Ambassadors" to help new developers get started, improving documentation, and making platform libraries and APIs easier to use. The document advocates for the xdg-app framework to allow developers to more easily package and distribute applications independently of Linux distributions. Overall it argues that enhancing the GNOME developer experience through better tools, documentation, and support can help grow the community of contributors.