"The GNOME Foundation today announced the hiring of Stormy
Peters as Executive Director. Stormy, a well-known industry analyst
with extensive experience at Hewlett Packard and OpenLogic, will
work on accelerating the adoption of GNOME and strengthening the
Foundation by attracting new industry members and community
contributors. "Hiring Stormy represents a major step for GNOME",
said Luis Villa, a Director of the GNOME Foundation. "With her
unique background and experience, she'll be a natural at growing
industry support for the project and connecting interested parties
to our community."
"Stormy's combination of industry expertise and community
background will be a great fit for GNOME. 'Stormy is one of the
most well respected members of the open source industry and
community.' says Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux
Foundation, 'Her unique ability to work with both community
volunteers and commercial industry members across a variety of open
source projects will serve the GNOME Foundation well...'"
