Edit: The first line says it’s not satire, but poking around the site there is definitely some satire articles on there, so I think this is probably malicious satire.
Satire or not, it does raise a few points that seem valid. Particularly that “She does not seem to have any experience with GNOME or Linux. In fact… she does not seem to have any experience related to software. At all. In any way.”
Based on the official blog it looks more like GNOME hired her as “an experienced communicator and fundraiser”. So maybe they don’t care whether she even owns a computer as long as she can raise money and woo investors?
What this basically means is that nobody that works for GNOME is presentable to the public and they need SOMEONE that’s showered in the past nine months to go out and raise money. ANYONE.
Or it means that the project is growing and they need to act like a fucking business and not a loose-knit association of nerdasses with zero actual business skills.
You know… the reason every fucking tech company has a CEO.
Another user did some digging too and pointed out that the archive was the only one and was made on the day before the article, so the shaman website seems to have been created specifically for that article https://beehaw.org/comment/1430242
Looks like they were trying to link here, but the link didn’t work, at least on the instance I’m on. Not sure about others. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4740497/gnome-foundation-hires-professional-shaman-as-new-executive-director
Edit: The first line says it’s not satire, but poking around the site there is definitely some satire articles on there, so I think this is probably malicious satire.
Edit 2: https://beehaw.org/comment/1430242
Satire or not, it does raise a few points that seem valid. Particularly that “She does not seem to have any experience with GNOME or Linux. In fact… she does not seem to have any experience related to software. At all. In any way.”
Based on the official blog it looks more like GNOME hired her as “an experienced communicator and fundraiser”. So maybe they don’t care whether she even owns a computer as long as she can raise money and woo investors?
honestly, from a business point of view, this makes some sense, but yeah, a bit out-of-touch with the community
if it’s actually true that is!
What this basically means is that nobody that works for GNOME is presentable to the public and they need SOMEONE that’s showered in the past nine months to go out and raise money. ANYONE.
Or it means that the project is growing and they need to act like a fucking business and not a loose-knit association of nerdasses with zero actual business skills.
You know… the reason every fucking tech company has a CEO.
Thanks for that link, it gave a bit more context into what OP was talking about.
The article does link to this archive.org link, which seems to back the title.
On the other hand, I also see articles like: KDE Foundation hires Dwarf Paladin as new Executive Director, which make me agree that this seems to be a bit on the malicious side.
It does make me want to dig around a bit now though.
Another user did some digging too and pointed out that the archive was the only one and was made on the day before the article, so the shaman website seems to have been created specifically for that article https://beehaw.org/comment/1430242
😲 That is quite interesting and surprising lmao