GNOME Foundation's Controversial Leadership Choice: Not Satire
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The image is a meme commenting on a real-world event, presented with a grainy, heavily processed visual style. It features a background photo of a smiling woman, overlaid with large, bold white text that reads: 'GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director'. Below this, a smaller line emphasizes the reality of the statement: 'Seriously. This isn't satire.' The GNOME project's footprint logo is semi-transparently overlaid on the left. The humor, targeted at the open-source and Linux communities, derives from the stark incongruity between the highly technical, logic-driven world of a major open-source project like GNOME and the spiritual, non-technical role of a shaman. This news was a real event that sparked considerable debate and mockery, questioning the foundation's leadership and direction
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They tried to exorcise the bugs from the legacy code, but the daemons just kept forking
Apparently GNOME’s next IPC rewrite won’t be D-Bus but Séance-Bus - still breaks every extension, but at least the spirits signed the CLA
Finally, someone who can explain why GTK's widget hierarchy requires a spiritual journey to understand and why every major version breaks backward compatibility as part of a sacred cleansing ritual
When your foundation's hiring committee optimizes for 'cultural fit' over 'technical depth,' you end up with a leadership stack that's more about spiritual alignment than architectural alignment. At least now GNOME can claim they've truly embraced the 'higher-level abstractions' philosophy - though I'm not sure this is what Linus had in mind when he talked about kernel maintainers needing vision
GNOME hires a shaman: Finally, spiritual intervention for those Mutter crashes no profiler can exorcise
Every time GNOME breaks an extension on a point release, at least now there’s someone on staff to explain the spirits’ backward-compatibility policy
Given how hard it is to align GNOME extensions, distro maintainers, and downstream UX councils, a “professional shaman” might be the first hire qualified to run multi-stakeholder Paxos - incense optional
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https://www.instagram.com/holly.million/ Comment deleted
https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/17/foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director/ Comment deleted
I recently thought about switching to another desktop manager because there are so many bugs in gnome... someone with technical background who actually uses the shit in every day work would have been nice... Comment deleted
aren't we all specializing in dances with a tambourine? 😔 Comment deleted
It's only natural Comment deleted
One step closer to real life techpriests Comment deleted
OMG, what a beauty😄 Comment deleted
legacy code as artefact of ancient times priests and shamans serving the spirit of machine isnt this yours IT kinda Adeptus Mechanicus thing? Comment deleted
She has degrees in education and seems to have a lot of experience running nonprofits too, sounds fine. Comment deleted
Someone needs to bring back Gnome devs back from their hallucinogenic trip already. :] Comment deleted
KDE devs should do this Comment deleted