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GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

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on Oct 18, 2023,

updated Oct 25, 2023

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.

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.

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Criticism:

Shared post - GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director

Before we begin, I need to stress something: This is not satire.  Not a joke.  What follows, while ridiculously whimsical, is 100% real.  Just a few short hours ago, the GNOME Foundation announced that they had hired a new Executive Director to lead GNOME into the future.

LWN:

The GNOME Foundation's new executive director

The GNOME Foundation has announced the hiring of Holly Million as its new executive director.

More criticism:

GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director

Listen now (22 mins) | Lunduke's Big Tech Show - October 18th, 2023

See this very long thread in Phoronix.

Linuxiac:

GNOME Project’s Unexpected CEO Choice: A Bold Move or Misstep

In closing, I would like to personally ask – I dare say it on behalf of countless GNOME users: Please, Mrs. Million, make the necessary magic convincing the developers to give us back the system tray functionality and rethink some of their functional design concepts. We would be eternally grateful! And no more ghosts.

Lunduke again:

GNOME is being super weird about their Shaman

Listen now (25 mins) | Lunduke's Big Tech Show - October 23rd, 2023

The Register:

GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt

GNOME's new director Holly Million has worked for some years in the non-profit sector. She is former executive director at the Biobricks Foundation, and has also worked with Dignity Moves and Artists United, as well as fundraising for the Oscar-winning 1997 short documentary A Story of Healing.

She replaces former Debian project lead Neil McGovern, now ED of Ruby Central, who left the role a year back. He, in turn, replaced self-described punk rock lawyer Karen Sandler, who replaced original GNOME ED "Stormy" Peters.