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."

Comments

Unexpected results

[AbbyNormal]

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.

Re:Unexpected results

[mforbes]

What's really amazing is that of the 324 registered voters, GWB won the votes of all two hundred thousand!

Executive Summary

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

chuckle

[viva_fourier]

> 5. What unique aspect will you bring to the job?

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? :) -- Luis Villa

My question for Slashdot customer service: Can I find this mildly funny, or does that make me some sort of Gnome Foundation fanboy...

Voting irregularities

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear there were some GNOME precincts that had more KDE votes than the total number of registered voters. Something smells fishy.

Re:Voting irregularities

[learn fast]

It wouldn't surprise me at all if KDE and GNOME were to one day have evolved into warring political parties.

Look at the eerie similarities:

# inexplicable, irrational, vitriolic loathing of each other
# the end user can't really tell any difference between them

Yup, sounds like two dominant political parties to me. All we need now is a winner-takes-all voting system and game theory ensures they'll be entrenched forever.

Re:Voting irregularities

[Anonymous Coward]

the end user can't really tell any difference between them

Are you kidding?

It's possible to distinguish Gnome and KDE quite easily by looking at the tips that appear when you first start them up.

KDE: "Did you know? Right-click on any file and select CERVISIA to frobnicate the CVS flibdijibble flooble blargh foo."

Gnome: "Did you know? Eating solid food is almost as easy as sucking Mommy's milk!"

Re:Elections?

[WombatControl]

And the one who doesn't contribute anything, whines the most, and is generally the most clueless can be selected as chief legal council!

Yes, I have a thing against lawyers...

Re:Elections?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a lawyer, and I want to say this: keep your thing away from me! Pervert.

In related news...

[jd]

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.

Re:slashdot is...

[Dragon218]

management team

Re:Sun Exclusion -- Java vs .Net?

[Eccles]

Yes, but Gnomes usually avoid the Sun.

Troll...?

Oh heck yes. trolls definitely avoid the Sun. In Tolkien's stories, the sun would turn trolls (except Olog-hai) into stone.