I am not aware of an article summarizing his greatest hits. Principally, he's a person who talks a lot and likes some mild conspiratorial thinking. From what I gather, he's also a liability for anyone who ever employed him in their marketing department, because he's only interested in furthering his own brand. He does make a lot of videos these days, so I guess you can decide for yourself if you like him and his style. :)
/c/linux stop sharing the garbage spewed by this ass clown challenge (apparently impossible)
https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/17/foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director/
Who hurt you OP?
Satire or not, it does raise a few points that seem valid. Particularly that "She does not seem to have any experience with GNOME or Linux. In fact... she does not seem to have any experience related to software. At all. In any way."
Based on the official blog it looks more like GNOME hired her as "an experienced communicator and fundraiser". So maybe they don't care whether she even owns a computer as long as she can raise money and woo investors?
honestly, from a business point of view, this makes some sense, but yeah, a bit out-of-touch with the community
if it's actually true that is!
What this basically means is that nobody that works for GNOME is presentable to the public and they need SOMEONE that's showered in the past nine months to go out and raise money. ANYONE.
Or it means that the project is growing and they need to act like a fucking business and not a loose-knit association of nerdasses with zero actual business skills.
You know... the reason every fucking tech company has a CEO.
Thanks for that link, it gave a bit more context into what OP was talking about.
The article does link to this archive.org link, which seems to back the title.
On the other hand, I also see articles like: KDE Foundation hires Dwarf Paladin as new Executive Director, which make me agree that this seems to be a bit on the malicious side.
It does make me want to dig around a bit now though.
That's funny, but where is the source and how will this help the project? Without context this seems out of place
shouldn't she be in QA with those spiritual cleansing abilities?
lights candles.
spritzes some oils.
some chanting as hands hover over the development server.
a moment of silence.
screams "BUGS BE GONE!!
I still don’t understand why a software project requires anyone who is not writing software or doing UI/UX.
"I don't understand why a business needs people that aren't on the assembly line." - You, showing the world your ass.
So you want software developers to spend less time building the software so they can run a nonprofit too? Do you think all the conferences, sites, fundraising, marketing, extensive help docs, bug processing, and community engagement is all something that can just be done on the side?
Just ask any software dev working st any of these foundations. They don't want to do any of the business-side work. Or, if they do, they certainly don't want to do it alone. If they were alone in it, they wouldn't have time to write code.
conferences, sites, fundraising, marketing, ... and community engagement
BS we don't need.
Without those things open source would slowly die. All of those are about getting more users for products, getting funding to make them happen, but more importantly, inspiring the next group of contributors.
Open source doesn't just appear out of thin air. It costs money and time. People need to care about it.
Without users, a project is just a hobby and unlikely to persist long term. Without funding, contributors are forced to abandon for jobs to out food on the table. Without the next group of contributors to pass the torch onto, projects die.
So, let's go big picture here. Let's get away from the specifics. Let's even assume that she's a bad person to put in place, or that her office is unnecessary.
I'm not donating money to the GNOME Foundation. It's not my money at stake. Unless you're a donor, it's not your money at stake.
I'm not familiar with the GNOME Foundation, but I can tell you right now that it doesn't get exclusive control of GNOME. They don't hold IP rights over GNOME software. If people and companies don't like where they're going, they can ignore them.
I think that it was Linus Torvalds who once pointed out that his only authority derives from the fact that people generally felt that he was doing a good job, and if that changed, he wouldn't have that authority.
Even if they fund work on a project, you want to fork an open-source project, you can fork it. Wouldn't be the first time that a fork has supplanted a parent project.
Developers don't necessarily make the best fundraisers, auditors, accountants, human resource managers, legal advisors, or any of a hundred other disciplines involved in running a large organisation.
This particular person seems to have extensive experience managing large non-profits and membership organisations; which is exactly what the GNOME Foundation is. There's no expectation that everyone on the board of directors will know how to cut code...
Someone has to direct them, and have a final say in which features get implemented and which do not. Otherwise the project will go nowhere.
