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GNOME Foundation removes Sonny Piers from board without explanation (discourse.gnome.org)

submitted 3 months ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/gnome@discuss.tchncs.de

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Very little is known as to why this happened, even by people deep within the GNOME project, so try to avoid wild speculation.

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[–] kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Activity on Sonny's GNOME-related projects will tell me enough.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's going to be hard given he's had his GitLab account suspended.

[–] kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

His main projects are on GitHub.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elaborate?

[–] kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sonny has been removed from the board of directors but his GitLab account also has been suspended. The second thing is more concerning for me, because the board is a position of greater responsibility and the GitLab instance is just a place to put one's code and to work on projects.

But one need neither be among the board or use GNOME's GitLab server to write their own apps for GNOME,so Sonny can continue to develop his apps. Will he do so or not that will reveal his attitude toward the GNOME project.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you. It's concerning to me as I've known Sonny to be a really nice guy, not sure what possibly could have led to this.