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Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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Looking at the qualifications and past experience of this pick I am starting to wonder what exactly was the rationale behind this? The only work history listed in her resume is as a consultant, and as "Holly Million the Shaman Artist". This will be interesting to say the least.

Gonna be another Mozilla, it seems?

Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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I hope they ditch their silly and excessive code of conduct. https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct

What about it do you find silly and/or excessive?

You need a code of conduct to tell you to not be violent?

Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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I hope they ditch their silly and excessive code of conduct. https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct

What about it do you find silly and/or excessive?

The "Safety versus Comfort" section indicates they do not intend to apply the above sections above fairly.

Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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Looking at the qualifications and past experience of this pick I am starting to wonder what exactly was the rationale behind this? The only work history listed in her resume is as a consultant, and as "Holly Million the Shaman Artist". This will be interesting to say the least.

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Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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Why did they feel it necessary to have such a role? I mean Gnome is one of the oldest OSS projects, and has been functioning reasonably well in the past 20-some years without it (as a project at least, I mean. I don't want to go into DE-preferences). The post announcing the job opening doesn't make me smarter unfortunately.

Expanding on that question — is the “Executive Director” role a paid position, and how (much) is the new recruit being compensated?

Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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Looking at the qualifications and past experience of this pick I am starting to wonder what exactly was the rationale behind this? The only work history listed in her resume is as a consultant, and as "Holly Million the Shaman Artist". This will be interesting to say the least.

Her name sounds like something out of a William Gibson novel, for one.

Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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Looking at the qualifications and past experience of this pick I am starting to wonder what exactly was the rationale behind this? The only work history listed in her resume is as a consultant, and as "Holly Million the Shaman Artist". This will be interesting to say the least.

From TFA:

> Holly brings three decades of invaluable experience in nonprofit management, having served as a consultant, director of development, executive director, and board member for numerous organizations. Notably, she founded the nonprofit organization Artists United, dedicated to empowering individual artists and fostering collaboration across artistic disciplines for the collective good. Additionally, Holly served as the Executive Director of the BioBricks Foundation, an international, open-source biotechnology nonprofit.

Is it possible that you missed some items somehow? Would cross checking them against the article be a good idea?

Re: Gnome Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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post #11

Looking at the qualifications and past experience of this pick I am starting to wonder what exactly was the rationale behind this? The only work history listed in her resume is as a consultant, and as "Holly Million the Shaman Artist". This will be interesting to say the least.

Gonna be another Mozilla, it seems?

I know it is cool to hate on Mitchell Baker here. Lack of qualifications is not a valid criticism. She has a law degree from Berkley. Passed the California bar exam in '87. Was a high ranking lawyer in Netscape as their first legal hire. Designed the Mozilla Public License. Created the Mozilla Foundation. She has been in executive roles for 20-30 years.
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