Stormy Peters jumps GNOME ship for Mozilla

As one door opens, another door opens...

By Kelly Fiveash, 9th November 2010

Stormy Peters is quitting her paid position as executive director at the GNOME Foundation in favour of a new job as Mozilla’s head of developer engagement.

The FOSS advocate joined the GNOME Foundation in July 2008. She previously worked at OpenLogic as director of community and partner programmes, and before that headed up Hewlett-Packard’s open source strategy, policy and biz practices.

In her latest move to Mozilla, Peters will be championing the “open web”.

Meanwhile, she hasn’t completely turned her back on the GNOME Foundation, which she helped found in 2000. Peters no longer has a paid job there, but she said she would continue to support the marketing team and plans to run for a seat on the group’s board of directors when elections begin next spring.

“As many of you know, I think we have a complete free and open source solution for the desktop but we still have a lot of work to do on the web,” said Peters.

“Many of us now depend on web applications that are not only not free but don’t even let us download and protect our own data in reasonable ways.

"Working on developer engagement at Mozilla will let me dedicate more of my resources to making sure developers have the tools and knowledge they need to create applications on the open web.”

In related Mozilla news, Firefox turns six today and it has a new CEO in the shape of Gary Kovacs, who earlier tweeted: "'hello world' - great to be part of the mission. thanks for all the warm welcomes on my first day.....and here we go!" ®

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Posted Tuesday 9th November 2010 15:45 GMT

The Other Steve

Prepare to launch the ROFLcopter

Complete solution for the desktop, ah ha ha ha ha ha ha, my work here is done oh ho ho ho ho ho. OMG WTF people are using web stuff that isn't free. STOP THEM, woo hoo hoo hoo hoo.

Bless their cotton socks.

Posted Wednesday 10th November 2010 10:24 GMT

Baudwalk

Complete? GNOME?

Hardly.

And the existing parts are usually so disjointed, they barely look like they're even trying to be part of "one whole system".

Don't get me started on the bugs...

That's all IMHO, of course, but KDE 3.5 was a far better integrated and polished experience.

A pity about KDE 4, though. A few minutes spent tweaking settings and picking a less grey-shaded/3D-ish theme (Christ on a pogo stick, that default theme is hideous) can make a huge improvement, but I could never manage to get it to feel or look as good as its predecessor.