With the GNOME elections now over I thought I should
summarize why the GNOME community elected the different
candidates and why some where not elected.
Reason people voted for him: With a name like Havoc
and a surfer dude accent we can choose no other leader.
Reason people voted for him: We want GNOME to be
rewritten in C Sharp
Reason people voted for him: Viva La XML
Reason people voted for him: Yay! Free iPaq’s for
everyone at GUADEC 3.
Reason people voted for him: Ok, we voted for ya can
we now get those darn OpenGL graphs in Gnumeric?
Reason people voted for him: Ok the Evolution
cheerleading squad was good, but now we want a GNOME
cheerleading squad and this time wear a real cheerleader
uniform.
Reason people voted for him: We feel tree widgets are
not getting the recognition they deserve.
Reason people voted for her: If she is on the board
she will not have time to make bug reports which means a bug
free GNOME.
Reason people voted for him: I hope the brings the
promised free Tequila to GUADEC 3
Reason people voted for him: We are really uneducated
and need some guidance.
Reason people voted for him: We want GNOME rewritten
in Python
Reason people voted for him: Okay, will you know
clean out those Pilsner stains from the panel code?
(the following candidates were not elected)
Reason people voted for him: Guinness rocks,
Budweiser sucks.
Reason not enough people voted for him: Guinness
rocks, Budweiser sucks (yes, we have some sick US
developers)
Reason not enough people voted for him:
Accessibility? Who needs it, if they can’t see it then it
can’t harm them I say
Reason not enough people voted for him: No we will
not call it GNU\GNOME.
Reason not enough people voted for him: No iPod
support in Rhytmbox you say?