GNOME Advisory Board

The GNOME Advisory Board members are representatives of organizations and companies that support GNOME. While the Advisory Board does not have decision-making authority for the GNOME Foundation, its members communicate with the Board of Directors and help the Directors guide the overall direction of GNOME and the GNOME Foundation.

The Board meets once a month on the phone and once a year in person, usually at GUADEC. The aim of these meetings is to

• Understand the Advisory Board's needs, and express them to the community.
• Express the community's needs to the Advisory Board, especially when it's something they can help with.
• Get feedback from the Advisory Board on our plans.

This might include help with:

• Marketing
• Customer feedback
• Finances
• In-depth test results, such as usability tests, performance tests, etc.
• Resources

For a complete list of responsibilities, see the Advisory Board Members' Responsibilities.

Joining the Advisory Board

If your organization or company is interested in joining the Advisory Board, please contact the Board of Directors.

Annual Fee

Advisory Board member companies pay an annual fee which helps finance the operations of the GNOME foundation. The reports that are published by the Foundation show how this money is used to help the GNOME project.

There are two levels for commerical companies:

• Small company: 1-49 employees. $10,000 / year.
• Medium and large company: 50 or more employees. $20,000 / year.

Fees may be waived for invited non-profit organizations.

Members

GNOME Foundation Board

• FoundationBoard

Canonical

• Jason Warner
• Jane Silber
• Rick Spencer

Collabora

• Robert McQueen

• Guy Lunardi

Debian

• Jordi Mallach
• Loic Minier

FSF

• Bradley Kuhn

Google

• Jeremy Allison

IBM

• John Walicki
• Greg Kelleher

Igalia

• Alejandro Garcia Castro
• Juan Jose Sanchez Penas

Intel

• Dirk Hohndel
• Paul Cooper

Motorola

• Rafael Camargo

Mozilla Foundation

• Chris Blizzard
• David Bolter

Nokia

• Quim Gil

OLPC

Oracle

• Erwann Chénedé

Red Hat

• Lars Hermann
• Jonathan Blandford

SFLC

• James Vasile

Sugar Labs

• Walter Bender

SUSE

• Michael Meeks
• Scott Reeves
• Vincent Untz

Meeting Topics

Any community members should feel free to send their suggestions for agenda items to the GNOME Board of Directors, board-list (at) gnome (dot) org. In particular we are interested in hearing from community members who would like Advisory Board feedback on their plans or would like to share their plans with the advisory board. Past topics have included GNOME 3.0 updates, event updates and planning and financial updates.