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

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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 1 month ago

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

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Elaborate?

[-] kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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 1 month 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.

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