This will be interesting to say the least.
> Holly brings three decades of invaluable experience in nonprofit management, having served as a consultant, director of development, executive director, and board member for numerous organizations. Notably, she founded the nonprofit organization Artists United, dedicated to empowering individual artists and fostering collaboration across artistic disciplines for the collective good. Additionally, Holly served as the Executive Director of the BioBricks Foundation, an international, open-source biotechnology nonprofit.
Is it possible that you missed some items somehow? Would cross checking them against the article be a good idea?
Artists United (https://www.artists-united.org/) is not confidence-inspiring. A barely edited Squarespace template with a few pages with a few paragraphs on most, including some unremoved Squarespace boilerplate.
No contact information.
No information on who runs it. Just a "manifesto" and a "call to action".
And which she is trying to remove from historical records as we speak.
https://lunduke.locals.com/upost/4740497/gnome-foundation-hi...
Who decided this seemingly unqualified person, of all unlikely people, was fit for the highest role in managing a multi-decade software project?
This is a shady hire. I wouldn’t be surprised to see personal connections turning out to be the sole factor behind her getting offered this job.
Perhaps in a world where the largest threats to Mozilla's survival as a company are corporate maneuvering and deal making, a lawyer is the best CEO to choose by meritocracy argument.
On the contrary I would consider that the absolutely most justified, objective criticism one could find.
But then I’m one of those guys who thinks DEI (as preached by today’s social activists) is horseshit, and I think meritocracy is a good thing.
I’m not sure how those things are seen from within, by people more left leaning than me.
The term "meritocracy" was coined as a satirical parody of effective governance.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-the-Meritocracy/Young/...
It was meant to be a negative, and is used as a pejorative: as a very bad idea that became effectively a swearword.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41427674
Be careful what you wish for.
The problem when a prominent wealthy company attempts to run its business on the basis of meritocracy is illustrated by the existence of projects such as GNOME, systemd, Wayland, and Flatpak.