The GNOME Foundation is welcoming Intel as an Advisory Board member. This is part of Intel's increasing commitment to GNOME and to the free software desktop.

"We are delighted to have Intel on board: it will help us continue our bet of combining the passion of the GNOME community with the need for quality, stability and long term plans of big players who are increasingly interested and involved in free software development," said Vincent Untz, GNOME Foundation member.

The Advisory Board is made up of organizations and companies that support GNOME. The Advisory Board has no decision-making authority but provides a vehicle for its members to communicate with the Board of Directors and help the Directors guide the overall direction of GNOME and the GNOME Foundation.

The Advisory Board consists of representatives from the following GNOME Foundation member corporations and projects:

• Debian Project
• Free Software Foundation
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Imendio
• Intel
• Nokia
• Novell
• OpenedHand
• Red Hat
• Software Freedom Law Center
• Sun Microsystems

Advisory board member companies pay an annual fee which helps finance the operations of the GNOME foundation. There are two levels for commerical companies.

Small company: 1-49 employees. $5,000 / year
Medium and large company: 50 or more employees. $10,000 / year

No fee is paid by the invited non-profit organizations that are part of the advisory board.

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