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GNOME Foundation Board Election Results

Posted by michael on from the gnews-you-can-use dept.

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."

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  1. Who gets to vote? by zomper514 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who gets to vote for the Gnome Board?

  2. Gnome == Novell, Sun, Red Hat by chill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

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    Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
    1. Re:Gnome == Novell, Sun, Red Hat by bogie · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Well Sun and Red Hat have done well by Gnome up till now so I don't see why it wouldn't be good thing. Heck if Red Hat had gone KDE like everyone else did instead of pushing a rather unfit at the time Gnome, there is no way Gnome would be where it is today.

      The real wild card here is Novell. Novell is the outsider here and it remains to be seen if there goals will align with the opensource community's goals longterm. Sure the names ie Nat are the same for now, but Novell is going to the ones pulling the strings.

      I have to say even though I've read only good things about what Novell plans to do, it's going to be years before I can trust them. Novell wasn't exactly big in Open Source before buying Suse and Ximian.

      Two things I'd love to see are opening up YAST and Ximian's exchange connector. Its would nice to see a Truly Free,Open, and Redistributable Suse. An open Connector would really help out in getting Linux on those corportate desktops.

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  3. Ettore's blog by zr-rifle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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    Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
    1. Re:Ettore's blog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Yes, especially considering his note from Sunday, November 2, 2003:

      • Life goes on.
  4. Re:Who cares about gnome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  5. Why did Ettore Perazzoli Pass Away Exactly? by Listen+Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?