Steven Deobald has been in the post of GNOME Foundation Executive Director for the past four months, during which time he has made major contributions to both the Foundation and the wider GNOME project. Sadly, Steven will be leaving the Foundation this week. The Foundation Board is extremely grateful to Steven and wish him the...
I remember their appointment from brodie’s video on this, and iirc, they were someone who has been in community for ~20 years, and they also had some kind of vision disability (not 100% sure), because of which there was hope that gnome would do more investments on accessibilty front. Which to gnome’s credit, they have the best among other wayland folks, but this feels to sson. if it had been a year or 2, it would have made sense (they already were an old person, so time was not favoring them), because it is reasonable for such posts 2 change in that timeframe. the previous director also left in 5-6 months, then this person in 4, it really speaks something about gnome’s board
I remember their appointment from brodie’s video on this, and iirc, they were someone who has been in community for ~20 years, and they also had some kind of vision disability (not 100% sure), because of which there was hope that gnome would do more investments on accessibilty front. Which to gnome’s credit, they have the best among other wayland folks, but this feels to sson. if it had been a year or 2, it would have made sense (they already were an old person, so time was not favoring them), because it is reasonable for such posts 2 change in that timeframe. the previous director also left in 5-6 months, then this person in 4, it really speaks something about gnome’s board