Advisory Board

The GNOME Advisory Board is composed of organizations and companies that support GNOME and have an interest in the future of the project. 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 board guide the overall direction of GNOME and the GNOME Foundation.

The Board meets twice a year, in the summer and the winter. 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.
• Provide a space for Advisory Board members to discuss their GNOME-related work with one another.

Joining the Advisory Board

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

Annual Fees

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

There are two levels for commercial companies:

• Small companies (less than $10M revenue): $13,250 per year
• Medium and large companies (more than $10M annual revenue): $26,500 per year

Fees run from October to September, and can be pro-rated if a member joins part way through the year.

Fees may be waived for invited non-profit organizations.

Current Advisory Board Members

The following are our Advisory Board members:

• Canonical
• Debian
• Endless
• Google
• postmarketOS
• Red Hat
• Sugar Labs
• SUSE
• The Document Foundation