The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is
pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of
Directors.
Special thanks go to Jonathan Blandford and Greg Leblanc who
helped us find and work around some bugs caused by an old perl
module.
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.
If the results are not challenged, then the elected directors
will be:
Owen Taylor
Glynn Foster
Jody Goldberg
Jeff Waugh
Luis Villa
Jonathan Blandford
Nat Friedman
Leslie Proctor
Bill Haneman
Dave Camp
Malcolm Tredinnick
Some figures about the votes: there were 337 registered voters.
191 voters sent valid ballots. Two ballots were invalidated because
the voters chose more than eleven candidates.
The results can be found at
http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/preliminary-results.html
Detailed results can be found at
http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/results.txt
Instructions to verify the results can be found at http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/verify.html
The Committee would like to thank all the voters and all the
candidates.
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee
Eric Baudais
Andy Tai
Ghee Teo
Vincent Untz
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