[fdn-ann] the451.com on GNOME election

["Barbara Heffner" <bheffner chenpr com>]

Congrats everyone.  Any advice on Florida would be appreciated. 


From The451.com
Gnome's Miguel de Icaza wins election
Rachel Chalmers
GMT Nov 11, 2000, 02:34 AM | ET Nov 10, 2000, 09:34 PM | PT Nov 10, 2000,
06:34 PM 

San Francisco - Charismatic Helix Code founder Miguel de Icaza has
been elected by a landslide – to the 11-member board of the Gnome
Foundation. The Foundation was established in August to guide the
development of Gnome, a powerful, component-based graphical user
interface for Unix. Gnome's advocates would like to establish the
software as the standard Unix desktop, and after winning the support of
Sun and Hewlett-Packard, they're well on their way. 

Gnome began life as part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project.
It has many ardent supporters, but no one person can claim more credit
for its popularity than de Icaza himself, a former university systems
administrator from Mexico, now developing ambitious applications for
Gnome as well as evangelizing the technology at conferences around the
world. 

Not surprisingly, then, de Icaza won the most votes of any candidate –
269 of 330 valid ballots. His colleague Frederico Quintero also made the
cut. Red Hat's Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor claimed two seats on the
board. X veteran Jim Gettys won a place for Compaq, and Linux ease-of-use
startup Eazel got four of its employees elected – Bart Decrem, Dan Mueth,
Maciej Stachowiak and Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. The W3C's
Daniel Veillard and Sun's John Heard round out the team. 

The Gnome community seemed satisfied with the results. The board is
balanced across the major contributing companies and exhibits a nice
combination of specialized talents. As well as Ghostscript and X, the GNU
tool kit is represented by Taylor and the documentation team by Mueth.

Even Bruce Perens, who fell short of election by 44 votes, was pleased
with the 90 votes he did receive. "I did pretty well considering
that I haven't been an active Gnome developer up to now," he wrote.

If the Gnome Foundation works, Gnome will be the most democratic free
software project ever. Now, if only we could get them to run the USA...
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