Re: My interests in the GNOME Foundation

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

Anne Østergaard wrote:
> I strongly feel that under the present circumstances it would be the
> only acceptable solution to let the next elected board hire the new
> GNOME Business Development Director.

I disagree, strongly.

We started this process during the Summer, and have several candidates 
to whom we owe (at a minimum) respect. That means not saying "not our 
problem, sorry" just because we haven't quite gotten the response that 
we desired. There are some people who have been candidates for this 
position for over 2 months.

> The position as the new GNOME Foundation Business Development Director
> should be announced broader.

Please, feel free to spread the job description as you see fit.

> The full job description should be
> published along with the interview procedure, and it should be fully
> transparent to all how the election procedure is going to be. 

What do you mean by the interview procedure? I would disagree with 
distributing the questions we are going to ask, for example.

> There is less than two months till a new board is in place. We won't
> miss much by waiting a little longer.

We will miss all our current candidates, and will lose a huge amount of 
respect and esteem with the people to whom we have discussed this 
already - the GNOME Foundation already has credibility issues, which we 
would do well to avoid aggravating.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
dneary free fr