Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Fantastic!

This is such an amazing step for GNOME!  Most people are hitting the 
blogs on this but I thought I'd capture something Stormy writes here in 
this thread:

'Here's a specific example of something I like about the GNOME 
community. It's important to them that things be "beautiful." I put 
beautiful in quotes because I think the GNOME community means much more 
than pretty when they say "beautiful." I think they mean:

   * Pretty. The desktop, your user interface, should look nice. It 
should be beautiful.
   * Easy to use. Functional. When things flow smoothly and everything 
is in just the right spot, right where you expect to find it, it's 
beautiful.
   * Done right. When things are coded right and they are reliable 
functional, easy to figure out, they are beautiful.

GNOME folks, agree, disagree?'


100% agreed!

cheers,
David


Luis Villa wrote:
> Hi, all-
>
> It is my pleasure to announce that the Board has decided to hire
> Stormy Peters as Executive Director of the Foundation. We've been in
> talks with her for some time and feel that she has an ideal
> combination of skills and background to fill the role, having been
> involved with GNOME and with the open source business community for a
> long time. For the fuller story on her bio, check out the press
> release, linked blow.
>
> Stormy's responsibilities will include (among other things)
> strengthening and growing the GNOME Foundation's infrastructure,
> working with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board members, GNOME
> membership, and other GNOME supporters to create an awesome free and
> open source desktop that is easy to use and provide a strong
> development platform, and accelerating the adoption of GNOME and
> strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and
> community contributors. No small task but we think she's up to it.
>
> If you're in Istanbul this week, please say hi to Stormy and welcome
> her on  board. If you're not in Istanbul, well, feel free to welcome
> her on list or ask questions as well (though of course we're several
> hours ahead of many of you, so we might not be as prompt as usual.)
>
> Looking forward to this new era for the Foundation-
> Luis and the Board
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