GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director
GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director
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/c/linux stop sharing the garbage spewed by this ass clown challenge (apparently impossible)
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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?
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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.
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😲 That is quite interesting and surprising lmao
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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.
From the link posted elsewhere in this thread on the Gnome website.
https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/17/foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director/ -
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I'm not a fan of woo-woo at all but this Lunduke guy seems like a real PoS
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That's funny, but where is the source and how will this help the project? Without context this seems out of place
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She was clearly the best choice for the job
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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!!
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I still don’t understand why a software project requires anyone who is not writing software or doing UI/UX.
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"I don't understand why a business needs people that aren't on the assembly line." - You, showing the world your ass.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Originates from Lunduke. Yikes.
I'll take a pro shaman over that ass clown.
I'm not familiar with this Lunduke person, can you direct me to some context?
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. :)