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

Excluded?

[KlomDark]

How can Miguel be excluded? Didn't he start the whole thing? That's be like excluding Linus from a Linux Foundation. Just makes the Gnome Foundation seem like a joke if they leave the founding member out.

Re:Excluded?

[azzy]

No, what would make it a joke is if they ignored all of their rules for someone, regardless of who that was.

Re:Excluded?

[pr0c]

Ya but you also lose integrity by allowing people who don't meet deadlines to slip by. It is a lose/lose situation really. I'm sure Miguel will still be very involved.

don't trust it

[TedCheshireAcad]

Don't trust these results. They used Diebold machines.

Re:Who gets to vote?

[haystor]

gnomes

Conspiracy theory

[daserver]

Anyone seen Antitrust?

Re:Gnome

[strictnein]

No no no...

Gnomes steal your underwear.
Trolls smell like your underwear.

It's very easy to get the two confused...

Although, now I'm confused. My definition directly relates them. They are connected through.... my underwear. Hmmm... must do more research on the subject.

Gnome == Novell, Sun, Red Hat

[chill]

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

Re:Gnome == Novell, Sun, Red Hat

[bogie]

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.

Myth #11 about open source

[afternoon_nap]

It will withstand the /. effect:

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Ettore's blog

[zr-rifle]

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.

Re:Who cares about gnome?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

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.

MOD PARENT DOWN!!!!

[ciaran_o_riordan]

> This is proof that moderation is broken

Quick, he's on to us. Get this off the front page

Re:Who cares about gnome?

[pyros]

Gnome took a turn for the worse when Gnome 2.0 was released and it hasn't recovered since.

Matter of opinion. I happen to think the jump from 2.0 to 1.4 was the first big leap towards being useable on a personal desktop, and it's been getting better ever since. I think File Type application association sucked ass in earlier versions of GNOME. Nautilus has made considerable speed and memory improvements. The panel kicks butt. they used to have different kinds of panels you could add/configure. Finally in 2.4 they figured out that they're all just panels. So now it's one kind of panel you can put whereever you want, and you can put any and all available applets on it. Some people really hate metacity. I can honestly say that I've had no change in usage patterns or productivity during the transition from Enlightenment to Sawfish to Metacity. Now we have the emerging gstreamer audio/video subsystem for GNOME apps to hook into. Totem and Rhythmbox are pretty sweet. I still use xmms every now and then, but I like having my little systray applet for rhytmbox. (I never liked the xmms gnome panel applet)

What exactly do you think got worse from 1.4 to 2.0?