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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."
...was a great guy. Too sad to see him leave. :(
Anyone's know how he actually died?
Who gets to vote for the Gnome Board?
on any other day, this comment would be funny.. but right now, it's in bad taste..
Novell had 5 people elected, but the charter doesn't all that many from 1 company, so 4 will sit on the board.
Sun & Red Hat had 2 each.
That means of the 11 sitting members, a super-majority (2/3) is in the hands of 3 big companies.
Hmmm... the big boys are starting to pay attention. I hope this is a good thing.
-Charles Hill
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Here is Ettore's blog, updated to 29 November.
On a side note, it's moving to browse through the weblog of someone who has died recently. I never knew Ettore, although I regularly use and love Evolution, but from his entries I see he was a very nice person while also being a talented hacker.
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
Gnome took a turn for the worse when Gnome 2.0 was released and it hasn't recovered since. At least now they aren't playing catch-up with KDE anymore. They are trying to innovate and do new things. This is good. The problem is that those new things suck. This is bad.
But then, thats a large reason why I don't use either GNOME or KDE. I stick with black/fluxbox, XFCE, or possibly windowmaker. Honestly, when I buy a hard drive for good seek times, fine tune my swap partition(s) and span them across multiple drives, use IDE/SCSI sw/hw RAID, and remove all but the necessary services and kernel drivers/modules-- I'll be damned if after all that I'm going to waste CPU cycles and memory on anti-aliased alpha blending of my skinned 'desktop environment' windows.
I'd like to actually use my computer, not just use my GUI. Choice is paramount.
" I think the more important news here is the death of two GNOME developers. I can't believe you took this oppurtunity to bitch about your dissatisfaction with software that they wrote and freely give away."
You need to save up the sentimental bullshit and spend it where appropriate. I assume Celorio and Perazzoli were commited to their work and had invested a considerable amount of their emotional/philosphical selves into Gnome. If so, they probably would rather have you and everyone else focus on the future of their work.
Offer their families and friends comfort. Let them know you appreciate what these two did. But show some respect and keep focusing on the work these guys cared about. You are not showing respect by focusing on their deaths instead of their lives. Quite the opposite.
-- "It was as if the paint factories had decided to deal direct with the art galleries." - Thursday Next
Some people are getting MySQL errors so here's a copy I managed to snag:
According to Nat's blog and numerous other blogs, Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico.
"The always enthusiastic and charming Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico.
For those of you not in Ximian who don't know, Chema started and ran our Mexico City office, led the Ximian Setup Tools team a few years ago, was in charge of the team that managed our contract with HP, led the Ximian Desktop for a while, was one of the creators of GNOME Love, and was recently our lead sales engineer for Europe.
Chema was one of the most loving, passionate people I have known. Being around Chema always made you want to do more and try harder. He was always questioning himself, trying to grow, taking on new challenges and never backing down.
When I went to visit our office in Mexico I stayed at Chema's house and gripped the door handle on his car till my nuckles turned white when he drove us to work. Whenever he wasn't on sales trips or skydiving he seemed to be in my office asking good hard questions and always pushing for us to do more.
Chema was easy to love, and he will be easy to miss. "
Descanse En Paz
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
Err, AFAIR, the GNOME VFS layer existed long before Nautilus... it was part of Gnome Commander.
Why did Ettore Perazzoli Pass Away Exactly? Every place I look, every is sad of his death, but nowhere can I find out how and why he died. Does anyone know?