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Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections

Submitted by vuntz on Fri, 2003-12-12 10:44. Gnome Foundation

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.

The next board of directors will consist of:
Owen Taylor - Glynn Foster - Jody Goldberg - Jeff Waugh - Luis Villa - Jonathan Blandford - Nat Friedman - Leslie Proctor - Bill Haneman - Dave Camp - Malcolm Tredinnick

We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify their ballot. You can also run the software used to count the results to verify that these preliminary results are valid.

These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to
elections@gnome.org. The challenges have to be sent before Friday, December 19, 2003, 23:59 UTC. Please note that these results should not be considered final until any such challenges have been resolved.

Candidates in order of votes received, with affiliations:

Owen Taylor (172 votes) - Red Hat Inc.
Glynn Foster (171 votes) - Sun Microsystems Inc.
Jody Goldberg (167 votes) - Novell Inc.
Jeff Waugh (165 votes) - Flow Communications
Luis Villa (160 votes) - Novell Inc.
Jonathan Blandford (157 votes) - Red Hat Inc.
Nat Friedman (156 votes) - Novell Inc.
Leslie Proctor (134 votes) - None
Bill Haneman (128 votes) - Sun Microsystems Inc.
Dave Camp (124 votes) - Novell Inc.
Michael Meeks (119 votes) - Novell Inc. [*]
Malcolm Tredinnick (109 votes) - CommSecure
Sri Ramkrishna (102 votes) - Intel

[*] Per the Foundation's charter, no more than 40% of the board directors may share a corporate affiliation. There is 11 directors, so this means that no more than 4 directors may share a corporate affiliation. Michael is the fifth-leading vote-getter from Novell Inc., and is thus ineligible to be elected.

Check out the full results and verify them!

Re: Preliminary results for the GNOME Foundation elections

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2003-12-14 14:42.

Gotta wonder how long it will be until Gnome gets crushed under the weight of its coporate owenership.

I'm not dumb as I realize exactly who was paying who to work on Gnome all along. At the same there can't be any doubt that Gnome is now more than ever under direct corporate control. So say be prepared to see what corporate America thinks Your Free desktop is supposed to look like.

I'm conflicted because without companies like Red Hat, Sun, and Ximian contributing their time and money Gnome wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today. At the same time I never thought GNU's Desktop was going to be completely under the corporate control that it is now.

You have to remember that Big Corporatoin have a duty to A)make stockholders money b) make money. Looking out for the interest of Free/GNU software comes in way behind those first two items in the long run.

We are at a turinng point with Gnome. It was established because we all were worried about having Trolltech controling the future of Free Software. If we were all told that in the future that Gnome was going to be controlled and driven by the needs of a bunch of big companies I wonder if we would have been so eager to get the project rolling in the first place?

It's been my experince over many years that the needs of big business and the needs of the General Public are often don't match up. Let's hope that these coporations can mantain their stewardship in a way which doesn't short the ideals that the Free Software community has fought for so long to uphold.

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