“On Elephants,” from fellow GNOME Foundation Director (and long-time, valued contributor) Allan Day

blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/04/2…

As noted by Allan, the post is his personal view and not an official position of the GNOME Foundation board. That said, I personally feel like it includes important context and is well worth a read.

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in reply to Cassidy James

I really hate the lack of transparency or reporting whatsoever, high *possibility* of political motivation, and what seems to be punishment that's not adequate for the misconduct. I have serious doubts Sonny could have done or said something so vile you'd need to ban him immediately and forever, without a way to come back. In actual laws, even murder cases don't always warrant a lifelong sentence.

This blog post addresses nothing, and can be boiled down to "we don't wanna step down".

in reply to Chris 🌱

@brainblasted oh... Is it written somewhere? Reading on the CoC procedures, there's the "Final warning, temporary ban, or removal from leadership" option, which seems to fit the official announcement about removal of Sonny from Board of Directors and all committees. But nowhere can I find the duration of the temporary ban.

Source: conduct.gnome.org/committee-pr… (under "Evaluating a report")