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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. Excluded? by KlomDark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Excluded? by azzy · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    2. Re:Excluded? by pr0c · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. don't trust it by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:Who gets to vote? by haystor · · Score: 5, Funny

    gnomes

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  4. 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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  5. 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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