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GNOME Foundation Elections Results Are In

Posted by timothy on from the or-out-depending-on-how-you-see-things dept.

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."

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  1. Unexpected results by AbbyNormal · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Unexpected results by mforbes · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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      Allegedly real newspaper headline from 1998:
      Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge

  2. chuckle by viva_fourier · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 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...

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  3. Voting irregularities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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