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Reducing Board Size Referendum - Preliminary results

Submitted by stro on Mon, 2005-11-07 15:58. Gnome Foundation

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for the Reducing Board Size Referendum.

We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify
their vote.

These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to
elections gnome org The challenges have to be sent before Sunday,
November 13, 2005, 23:59 UTC. Please note that these results should not
be considered final until any such challenges have been resolved.

The question was: "Should the board size be reduced from its current 11
directors to 7 directors?"

The results are:
yes (117 votes)
no (70 votes)

blank votes: 1

If the results are not challenged, then there will be 7 slots to be
filled instead of 11 in the next elections.

Some figures about the votes: there were 354 registered voters. 188
of them voted.

The results can be found at
http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=1

Detailed results can be found at
http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=1

If you need to get all the votes in a specific format to verify the
results, please contact us and we'll do our best to do it.

The Committee would like to thank all the voters.

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee

It's difficult

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-11-10 05:26.

It's difficult to claim that GNOME is community project because all the important decisions are made by employees of corporations at the behest of their paymasters. This isn't always a bad thing, since a variety of opinions is needed... but the viewpoint of average user/developer isn't represented in GNOME, and is in fact ignored.

Anyone who has followed GNOME over the last few years cannot have failed to notice this. From corporate GNOME developers ignoring bugzilla patches, roundly ignoring any comments, making it quite clear that they ignore anyone who comments on their software "because they don't represent the silent majority" (stand up Murray Cumming, you deserve an award for that kind of drivel, to the absolutely refusal to setup a Metacity mailing list on the grounds that (and I kid you not), people might comment on the software.

Yes, I'd say the days of GNOME as a community project are long past. It's now a collection of prima donnas in the pay of various corporations.

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