| Ubuntu's commercial sponsor joins GNOME advisory board |
Apr. 17, 2007
 Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, will announce on April 18 that it has joined the GNOME Foundation's advisory board.
The GNOME Foundation advisory board is made up of representatives from free software-friendly companies in industry -- from large industry players, to smaller companies that have emerged from the free software community. The advisory board provides a vehicle for its members to communicate with the board of directors and help the directors guide the overall direction of GNOME.
Ubuntu is one of the most well-known Linux distributions that relies upon the GNOME desktop. The next version of Ubuntu, due out on April 19, uses the latest version of GNOME, 2.18, as its desktop interface.
Jane Silber, Canonical's director of operations, stated, "Community acceptance is a big part of the success of Ubuntu and we continue to seek ways to give back and provide support to the community and upstream projects, like GNOME Joining the foundation's advisory board gives us the opportunity to do both within an established and forward thinking group." Silber will sit on the board as Ubuntu's representative.
Dave Neary, former chairman of the GNOME Foundation, added, "Since launching the Ubuntu distribution, Canonical has been a great proponent of the GNOME desktop and community partner. The changes which Ubuntu has brought to the project have made the free software user experience better for all GNOME users."
"Now, Canonical's presence on the advisory board reinforces the industry support for the GNOME project as an outstanding free software desktop environment. With Debian, Novell and Red Hat already members, the companies and communities behind all of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions are now sponsors of the GNOME Foundation," concluded Neary.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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