GNOME announced an interim director of Richard Littauer, who joined last week.
Holly’s resignation appears to be personal, as she intends to pursue a PhD in Psychology.
Do you have any sources? Not trying to imply anything, I just don’t know anything about it, and I’d be interested to do a little reading.
Holly holds a Master of Arts in Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Harvard University. Her academic background, combined with her extensive professional journey, equips her with a unique perspective that will undoubtedly contribute to the growth and success of the GNOME Foundation.
From the Gnome Foundation page about her. I am genuinely struggling to:
- Understand how a self-described shaman artist (who also sells “energy cleansing” services) is qualified to be director of anything but her own business ventures.
- Understand how a person with a background in education and English is qualified to direct a foundation.
Like FFS, do they just let anybody in?
Tbf though the results speak for themselves though, GNOME has definitely been thriving under her though much of that is also do to the effort of others. She did put in a lot of work and no one inside GNOME complained so I assume it was a good deal. Also the page you linked shows she’s been working in executive positions in non profits for a while so definitely qualified.
A lot of OSS projects and small non-profits? Yes. The cost to entry is “be willing to volunteer” and very few people pay that cost so basically anybody can get in. These aren’t exactly competitive positions. And if they improve the software honestly idk if they’re a shaman healer or whatever. I care about the software. As long as their energy healing garbage isn’t somehow getting into the software who cares?
