GNOME Foundation Board Election Results

Anonymous BillyGoat writes "The results of the 2003 GNOME Foundation Elections have been announced. These are preliminary results, and will stand unless someone decides to challenge them. A notable exclusion from this year's list is Miguel De Icaza, whose candidacy application was rejected as it missed the deadline. In related news, barely a few weeks after the news of the death of GNOME hacker Chema Celorio in a sky diving accident, the GNOME community was shocked by the news of the sudden death of Evolution hacker Ettore Perazzoli."

Comments

Re:Who gets to vote?

[gouldtj]

I surprised no one answered this.

Members of the GNOME foundation get to vote for the board. Basically these are the people who contribute to GNOME. So, if you translate or code or give presentations to do with GNOME you can be a member. There is no charge or anything like that.

Re:Who cares about gnome?

[Nodatadj]

Especially seeing as...

Taaadaaaa!

you can turn it off at the click of a button or two...[here's a hint, check gconf-editor and turn on Metacity's "reduced resources" feature]

Yey for uninformed bitching!

Woohooo

Re:Excluded?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, they are rules for a reason. Miguel even though he started Gnome has been doing other things as of late. If he cared enough to be on the foundation this year he would of made sure he threw his hat into the ring ontime much as everyone else did. I'd recommend reading about what the foundation is, what it does and why it was made in the first place before suggesting that honorary members me made. As the parent posted. It would be a joke if we just let anyone on the foundation. I'm sure there are no hard feelings and Miguel's ideas or suggestions are always taken into consideration so I don't see the problem.

Re:OS developer deaths

[smittyoneeach]

Way, way, way out of line.