I love that within a couple hours of this being posted the only comments of any length are uninformed hiveminding about how attempts to involve women in the GNOME development community are excluding men and destroying society.
No substantial discussion of invoicing issues, no discussion of how governance could be changed to address these issues, no discussion of how contributors and users could get involved to fix things, no discussion of what the Gnome Foundation has accomplished and whether it could be more efficient about it.
No, just a bunch of uninformed ranting about things entirely unrelated to the OP. I guess on the bright side HN's utterly ineffective 'flamewar detector' will drop this off the front page shortly and send people back to the MensRights subreddit.
P.S. 'u mad, kg?' You bet I'm mad. The quality of discourse on HN keeps going down. I was genuinely curious about the GNOME foundation, so I click through and find out that most people didn't even read the article, as if this is friggin' Slashdot.
Props to the people who read the article and responded to comments with actual information; fight the good fight.
No substantial discussion of invoicing issues, no discussion of how governance could be changed to address these issues, no discussion of how contributors and users could get involved to fix things, no discussion of what the Gnome Foundation has accomplished and whether it could be more efficient about it.
I thought I was pretty clear on this point; the Gnome Foundation board appears to have operated far outside the foundation charter and if so, should be censured and ideally recalled.
Assuming that this assessment is accurate:
To address continuity of the OPW specifically, board members that wish to continue administering the OPW program can resolve governance and accountability issues, while ensuring OPW's continuity, by resigning and founding a distinct organization that has within its charter the administration of OPW.
Any remaining board members should be recalled, reaffirming the board's fiduciary mandate to operate within the Gnome Foundation charter.
Hey now, attacking programs that support women and other minorities whenever the slightest mention of them is made is a longstanding Hacker News tradition.
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I love that within a couple hours of this being posted the only comments of any length are uninformed hiveminding about how attempts to involve women in the GNOME development community are excluding men and destroying society.
No substantial discussion of invoicing issues, no discussion of how governance could be changed to address these issues, no discussion of how contributors and users could get involved to fix things, no discussion of what the Gnome Foundation has accomplished and whether it could be more efficient about it.
No, just a bunch of uninformed ranting about things entirely unrelated to the OP. I guess on the bright side HN's utterly ineffective 'flamewar detector' will drop this off the front page shortly and send people back to the MensRights subreddit.
P.S. 'u mad, kg?' You bet I'm mad. The quality of discourse on HN keeps going down. I was genuinely curious about the GNOME foundation, so I click through and find out that most people didn't even read the article, as if this is friggin' Slashdot.
Props to the people who read the article and responded to comments with actual information; fight the good fight.
I thought I was pretty clear on this point; the Gnome Foundation board appears to have operated far outside the foundation charter and if so, should be censured and ideally recalled.
Assuming that this assessment is accurate:
To address continuity of the OPW specifically, board members that wish to continue administering the OPW program can resolve governance and accountability issues, while ensuring OPW's continuity, by resigning and founding a distinct organization that has within its charter the administration of OPW.
Any remaining board members should be recalled, reaffirming the board's fiduciary mandate to operate within the Gnome Foundation charter.
Hey now, attacking programs that support women and other minorities whenever the slightest mention of them is made is a longstanding Hacker News tradition.