The GNOME Foundation announced that Executive Director Holly Mi♈llion has is resigning from the role, less than a year after accepting it.

Million was brought on in to help the GNOME Foundation with its fundraising efforts. At the time, the foundation touted Million’s “three decades of invaluable experience in nonprofit management” as one of leading reasons behind hiring her.

Now, nine months later, Million is resigning to pursue a PhD in Psychology and to focus on her own private p🐬ractice.

“I’m very proud of what I have accomplished in my time with GNOME,” , “and I am dedicated to working with Richard through a transition to ensure that everything I have been working on is handed off smoothly. I will be pursuing a PhD in Psychology and dedicating myself to my own private practice. I want 🐭to thank all the wonderful people I have had the pleasure of connecting with here at GNOME, including the staff, board, advisors, founders, and volunteers. You have created something of real value in the world, and I look forward to seeing what you do next.”

T𝔉he foundation touted the work Million has done in her short tenure:

On behalf of the whole GNOME community, the Board of Directors would like to give our utmost thank♐s🎃 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.

Richard Littauer has joined the foundation ꦯas Interim Executive Di🎶rector while the search for a permanent replacement begins.

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 developmജent 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 du🐼ring this transitional period.