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GNOME Foundation Elections Results Are In
PaaChhaa writes "The GNOME Foundation membership and elections committee has announced the preliminary results of this year's elections for the board of directors. There are a few new faces this year, and Miguel de Icaza, whose candidacy was rejected last year due to late submission, is back. The run up to this year's election saw a threat of boycott, which ultimately resulted in the online publication of the foundation's financial records. Also, a heated discussion followed the posting of the list of ten questions, and the opinions of the candidates and other foundation members on these issues can be found in the foundation-list archives for the months of November and December. A notable exclusion from this year's board is GNOME's release manager Jeff Waugh. who didn't run at all."
Do any of these guys (gals?) work for Sun?
...yup...
Why the new faces point to Federico Mena? He's been working in GNOME for more time that most of the known developers.
The new president of the association: "George Walker Bush".
We told them not to use those Diebold Machines. You'd think Gnome would read Slashdot or something.
Sig it.
I'll take this oppertunity to complain about GNOME's current love affair with spatial browsing, in the hope that it will get noticed.
Please, please take away spatial browsing. Noone I know wants it. Every time someone talks to me about their first foray into Linux(avec GNOME) they complain about it. They all hated it in Win95 and they don't want it now. They all leave with the impression that Naultilus( and by extendtion Linux) is, well, unusable. (They're only lusers, bless them.)
Seriously leave spatial browsing as an option from now on. Not the default.
All replys, comments and links to points of view in favour of spatial browsing are welcome, as I am genuinely facinated and bemused by this point of view. Who exactly like spatial browsing and why?!
May the Maths Be with you!
Yes, moderators...please mod. this post as a TROLL. Yes Gnomes, Elves, and Trolls all in one.
TDz.
In China, gnome is banned.
In Netcraft, KDE is dying. (Confirmed).
In Korea, only old people elect gnomes.
In Japan, talking robot gnomes are elected.
In Soviet Russia, gnome elects YOU!
Any questions?
> 5. What unique aspect will you bring to the job?
:) -- Luis Villa
I think it is safe to say I am closer to legally blind than anyone on
the board, or running for it. That's unique, right?
My question for Slashdot customer service: Can I find this mildly funny, or does that make me some sort of Gnome Foundation fanboy...
and now back to the fallout shelter...
I hear there were some GNOME precincts that had more KDE votes than the total number of registered voters. Something smells fishy.
They're having elections? Why not _selections_?
The person who contributes the most stable code get to be CTO, the one who got the most companies to pony up $$$ is CFO, and the one who can listen to the most complaints without going crazy becomes CEO!
Just my vote!
HexaByte - he's a square and a half!
It appears that the election system used is approval voting, but with multiple winners. This does not result in proportional representation, but instead elects almost only "centrist" candidates. This may or may not have been the intent.
It's very interesting that Sun has been excluded from the board since as far as I know the board sets the technical direction for GNOME.
.NET/Mono has won the battle of GNOME? Interesting times.
Does this maybe mean that
(Please browse at -1 to read this comment.)
Mod Up! It's funny. Laugh.
"...The run up to this year's election saw a threat of boycott, which ultimately resulted in the online publication of the foundation's financial records...."
Everyone was in shock and awe when they saw that the biggest financial backers were Haliburton, MSFT and News Corp. Who knew?
If you think
The real smart people don't need to prove it--they live it.
Fill in the blank:
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the _________"
thank you for playing.
#!/usr/bin/english
TH1S S1 T3H FUFNNY!!!``1 I LAFFED MY A$$ PFF!! L0L0L0L0ZLZOZLZZZZ!~!!`1`1!
A set of questions was posted for the candidates to answer. In reply to the question about motivating others, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote "... appreciation for the work put in by others. If that doesn't work I guess we expose the slackers on Slashdot :)"
That'll get their attention!
With each year's election, it just keeps getting better & better . . .
//kracker
All of the traffic simply brings more review, attention and organization to the GNOME Foundation & GNOME Development.
It's not a negative, it's a positive, either way they both push us forward towards our goals
sage francis - sick of waging war - 01 - radio commercial intro
Ukraine offered to send observers to the GNOME elections, to ensure fairness. Meanwhile, the Eric Conspiracy has already declared victory. Bin Laden has issued a statement saying that it doesn't matter who wins, he will continue to use Emacs until American troops are withdrawn from Microsoft Windows.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
management team
"It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to be destroyed" --William S. Bourroughs
I'm not sure why this is relevant, though.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the United States!
Writing adventure stories about dogs in this post-Columbine world.
To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ~ h2g2
Here, Have some lollerskates.
Gee, GNOME appears to be the GNAA of Slashdot. Apparently we can't have a GNOME discussion without someone coming along and trolling. Of course KDE has had their run of trolls too.
So how about we pile all the "GNOME sux" posts to this thread, then meta-moderate the whole shebang down to -1: offtopic and annoying the fuck out of everyone who's all heard it before.
"Are you being serious? I don't even think I've met anyone who has never used a computer before, let alone try to explain why buttons are good things."
And there'in lies the problem. Every one of you is carrying "preconception" baggage, and assuming that it applies to everyone.
I've known people who've NEVER used a computer. And have VCR's that still flash 12:00.
precipitate
In South Korea, only old people use Gnome...
I don't know if we can really learn anything from this, but it's interesting to compare the GNOME election to the recent Java Community Process election:
GNOME: 324 registered voters, 183 votes cast, dominated by Red Hat and Novell. Sun almost got a seat.
JCP: 755 registered voters, 221 votes cast, Google, JBoss, and Intel edge out Novell. Sun has a permanent seat and Red Hat didn't run, despite their interest in Java.
Gnome foundation?
Luis Villa: [snip] ...we need to
send out gnoppix/ubuntu livecds to media with late 2.9 releases and a
nice little 'here is what is so cool about gnome' pamphlets. If we can
do that for 2.10 we'll go a long way towards recapturing some of the
buzz we had.
Doesn't he mean Gnome 3.0? Or 2.9.2 or something?
Someone help me out on how version numbers go.
Fill in the blank:
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the _________"
I don't have to. I can recognise the logical fallacy of the false dilemma quite well enough without playing your silly little games.
(Example: the claim that "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" is plainly nonsensical, because it is easily provable, for any problem/solution pair you care to advance, that the majority of the human race are completely unconcerned either way and do not fall into either category. For example, it's hard to see exactly how Jim McDonald, 86, of Aberdeen, Scotland, retired fisherman, never used a computer, can be held responsible for the poor quality of debate on Slashdot.)
The actual winner of the GNOME elections vote was:
Pat Buchanan
That and pink Flamingos.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
I have noticed that Jeff Waugh is quite involved with Ubuntu http://ubuntulinux.org/ these days. This *might* have something to do with him not running...?
If you're not part of the solution, you're the precipitate.
How true! Funny and true :)
Why is it that the majority of managers have no clue how to solve the problems they are supposed to be working on. Why is it that a guy with a Marketing Degree is in charge of a team of programmers.
I wonder if it is just me finding lousy companies with no futures to work at, or if this is common.
Don't count your messages before they ACK.
I almost had milk coming out of my nose.
Seriously, I was drinking milk.
Seriously, I was drinking milk.
No, you weren't. That's just what Uncle Taco wants you to believe. The rest of us call it Tacosnotting.
It's still there. Try it.
___International_jewry___
"Staff meeting with CowboyKneel: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me"
Jesus.
....and Kerry lost.
Again! Hahahahahaha!
I wasn't talking about Mr. McDonald - I was talking about you specifically. Your original observation about the quality of the debate on slashdot is actually right on target: the signal to noise ratio is terrible, and only the most immature "slashbot" would ever argue otherwise.
My observation, on the other hand, is that outbursts such as yours are most certainly part of the noise. If you don't like it here, leave. If you decide to stay, why not demonstrate your maturity and intelligence by trying to promote some intelligent material to the signal side of the equation?
#!/usr/bin/english
With Novell guys all the rage through the list, i wonder if mono will finally get into Linux desktops?
As you may well know, it's an open-source implementation of publicly available and ECMA-standardized Microsoft's .Net API + plus a few more.
I don't feel like it...