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Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes)
Footnotes reports on the
preliminary results of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors.
"The next board of directors will consist of:
Owen Taylor - Glynn Foster - Jody Goldberg - Jeff Waugh - Luis Villa - Jonathan Blandford - Nat Friedman - Leslie Proctor - Bill Haneman - Dave Camp - Malcolm Tredinnick" (Log in to post comments)
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 13, 2003 15:40 UTC (Sat) by davidl (guest, #12156) [Link] So where are all the proper independent Gnome hackers and advocates then?
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 13, 2003 16:56 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] I think it's more important to elect people who understand the project, work on it actively and have ideas for the future. Such people tend to be employed by large companies. There were some "independent advocates" on the ballot, but I believe their experience was insufficient.
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 13, 2003 17:12 UTC (Sat) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Each of the people elected are GNOME contributors, and will represent GNOME. They may work for a contributing company, they may not. But they are on the board for GNOME, and GNOME alone. It is decidedly easier for those who do not have affiliations. We can just kick arse, without worrying about other things behind us. :-)
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 13, 2003 17:25 UTC (Sat) by newren (subscriber, #5160) [Link] As far as I can tell, three of them got elected (well, assuming no challenges, of course):Jeff Waugh--from Candidacy statement: " Given that I have taken a lead sysadmin position with a local ISP in Australia - working with almost 100% Free Software, of course - I'm currently wonderfully free of real or perceived bias towards contributing GNOME companies." Malcolm Tredinnick--from Candidacy statement: "My day job does not involve any GNOME development at all -- it is all a free-time gig for me." Leslie Proctor--from email in response to asking his affiliation: "No affiliation - I'm an independent contractor." Considering that only four independent people ran (the other is Sri Ramkrishna who works for Intel), this looks like the independent people have just about all the voice they want.
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 14, 2003 11:34 UTC (Sun) by davidl (guest, #12156) [Link] The fact that such comments are even made should worry people.
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 14, 2003 13:01 UTC (Sun) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Why? Do you think all of these people on the Board are doing it for their companies, or for GNOME? Perhaps you should have a good read of foundation.gnome.org. :-)
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 13, 2003 17:37 UTC (Sat) by steven97 (guest, #2702) [Link] All the "proper independent Gnome hackers and advocates" have at leasthalf a brain and therefore usually get hired by a contributing company. That doesn't necessarily make them a worse choice.
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 14, 2003 0:29 UTC (Sun) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Does that mean all of us "proper independent Gnome hackers and advocates" who don't get paid to work on GNOME *don't* have half a brain? Grr! ;-)
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 14, 2003 5:08 UTC (Sun) by newren (subscriber, #5160) [Link] No, if you read his quote closely, his only asserted implication was that all the proper independent Gnome hackers and advocates have at least half a brain. Thus, if you don't have at least half a brain, there's no way you're an independent Gnome hacker or advocate.He did also add that the independent Gnome hackers and advocates *usually* get hired by a contributing company, but did not go so far as to assert that such was always the case.
Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections (Footnotes) Posted Dec 13, 2003 18:38 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] They got elected? You could always run next time if you arent happy with who was elected.
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