GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director

The GNOME Foundation has announced
that executive director Holly Million is stepping down at the end of
July, and will be replaced by Richard Littauer as interim executive
director:

On behalf of the whole GNOME community, the Board of Directors
would like to give our utmost thanks to Holly for her achievements
during the past 10 months, including drafting a bold five-year
strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal
sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs, writing our
first funding proposal that will now enable the Foundation to apply
for more grants, vastly improving our financial operations, and
implementing a break-even budget to preserve our financial
reserves.

The Foundation's Interim Executive Director, Richard Littauer,
brings years of open source leadership as part of his work as an
organizer of SustainOSS and CURIOSS, as a sustainability coordinator
at the Open Source Initiative, and as a community development manager
at Open Source Collective, and through open source contributions to
many projects, such as Node.js and IPFS. The Board appointed Richard
in June and is confident in his ability to guide the Foundation during
this transitional period.

Million says she is leaving to pursue a PhD in psychology. The
board plans to announce its search plan for a permanent executive
directory after GUADEC, which takes
place July 19 through 24.