One general wish -- which I agreed with -- from Debian was to better share information about people... Matthias Kirschner, FSFE President
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Halász Dávid & IBM Red Hat, OSCAL, Albania dating
This page has been refreshed after we incorrectly identified the developer in these photos. Debian Community News has raised the issue of dating and romance with women from Albania and Kosovo. OSCAL 2024 is back. We don't know when. Check here for more details. Debian Community News has also published evidence that many of the women who received travel bursaries are not publishing code. It is obvious that many of the women in red t-shirts are being paid to attend the Albanian conferenc...
GNOME GUADEC 2022 & Debian Albanian women trafficked to Mexico?
DebConf22 and the GNOME conference, GUADEC 2022 both took place during the same week from 20 to 25 July 2022. DebConf22 was in Prizren, Kosovo, a 3 hour bus trip from Albania. GUADEC was in Guadalajara, Mexico, which requires a long haul flight from Europe. In 2022, GNOME published a 25 years Happy Birthday GNOME web site which has since vanished. HappyBirthdayGNOME.org is the original site, Archive.org has a backup copy. The 25 years report includes a photo from a GUADEC women's dinner....
Neil McGovern, Molly de Blanc: were they sacked from GNOME?
Around 22 June 2021, volunteers observed Molly de Blanc removed from the GNOME web site and looking for a job on social media. In February 2022, Neil McGovern announced he would leave GNOME. A six month notice period was mentioned and GNOME began posting about the search very publicly in August 2022. In February, when McGovern blogged about leaving, did he know what his next job would be or he was just taking a step out into the unknown? In February, did GNOME have a new candidate in mind...