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GNOME Foundation removes Sonny Piers from board without explanation
(discourse.gnome.org)
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There's this blogpost but it doesn't really shed any more light on the thing either
https://blog.sonny.re/retrospective-as-gnome-director
It does clarify that neither he nor anyone else involved wants people to speculate. Since he's the one being publicly shamed, and whatever other parties there are presumably felt that they were victim to something, seems like a good idea to respect that.