… but here in North Carolina is so delightfull!" Want yet another reason to move to North Carolina? Here’s one… better yet, FIVE: It was 81 F this afternoon! Awesome! :) By the way, Flickr is sporting a newer upload interface… spiffy!

I’d like to extend my (unofficial) congratulations to the new GNOME Foundation Board of Directors! (unofficial results) Nice to see Luis' charisma showing in the results! :) The new board can definitely count with my support! I also want to thank all of those who voted for me! I feel very privileged that you guys believed in me and I can only hope to be able to continue pushing for my ideas and ideals.

“one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Dennis Kucinich! ‘nough said! Update: A lot of people believed the quote above belonged to Mr. Kucinich, but that was me. Thanks Dan for the heads up on my formatting mistake. :)

I’m glad Bryan Clark poked the candidates running for the GNOME Board about the Online Desktop question. The best part was that he took the time to sift through all the answers and derive a nice chart of what he understood from the answers and what he felt needed some further explanation. So, to answer his call… When I said I believe that it is not up to the Board to decide on the implementation or even which tools/languages to use, but serve as a facilitator and guiding light to make sure that the project stays on track and focused…

I was really glad to see David Bolter's post today about transparency in community decisions! Olav and I had been talking about this (see comments section), related to blog aggregation requests, and it is nice to see that someone else also agrees. Some people may complain about having to create a user account (assuming we’re using bugzilla, for instance) to request that his blog be aggregated to the planet, but this would provide some sort of “receipt” and serve as a means to get a process going.

It seems that my post didn’t quite express what I really meant and some people (Olav Vitters has asked me to mention his name instead of making it generic) have even decided no to vote for me because of it. Wow… For instance, my good friend Luis quoted me on his last post and based on what he wrote one would think I’m telling people to shut up and just vote.

About today’s outburst, I have the following to say: The GNOME Foundation has established a democratic process by which its members and directions can be chosen. If a process or person has not delivered that which was agreed upon or expected (due to a role), that is the price one pays for democracy. Please, let us not lose out cool and take advantage of the system to do what is right for the Foundation.

This last week has been but a blur to me due to the holidays (Thanksgiving here in the US) and my house being full of relatives who came to visit from upstate New York. With the exception of a patch I sent (and committed by Jonh, thanks!) to bugzilla, my time was spent doing the following: Following and answering the questions that were asked for those running for the GNOME Board of Directors (I’m one of them).

So yesterday I finally managed to find some time to send in my application to run for the GNOME Board of Directors. Now back to your regular program…

A couple of updates before heading out to the weekend: Been working hard together with Fábio Nogueira on the XFCE translations before the eminent 4.4.2 release. Things are looking really good! Tonight I was feeling a bit adventurous and took the pre-alpha Foresight 2.0 KDE Edition and installed it at home. Like I said, I was really feeling adventurous and installed the x86_64 bit version too, and so far everything looks good!