Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Hey guys, It ıs great!!! Please ask her for apply for membershıp at http://foundation.gnome.org . Cheers!!! Bruno Boaventura Membershıp Commıttee Chaır ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director
Richard M Stallman wrote: '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. I wouldn't disagree with any of those desiderata, but there are two more that no list of GNOME desiderata should omit: freedom and social solidarity. I agree with those additions; especially where "social solidarity" might capture the notion of inclusive design... and perhaps more dear to my heart: accessibility. cheers, David ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director
'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. I wouldn't disagree with any of those desiderata, but there are two more that no list of GNOME desiderata should omit: freedom and social solidarity. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:54 +0300, Luis Villa wrote: > > It is my pleasure to announce that the Board has decided to hire > Stormy Peters as Executive Director of the Foundation. Welcome Stormy indeed! In case it's not clear, this hiring was the subject of the several board-confidential meetings we have been having these last couple of months. Cheers, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director
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 ___ foundation-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
hiring Stormy Peters as executive director
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 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
