Preliminary Results of the GNOME Foundation 2003 Elections

Why preliminary?

This results are preliminary results: they can be challenged by sending a mail to elections@gnome.org. If you want to verify the results, you can look at the instructions that explain how to do so.
All challenges must be sent before December 19th, 23:59 UTC.

The results

You can download the full results. There were 191 valid votes. Two votes were not valid because the voters chose too many candidates.

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

The future board

If these results are not challenged, then the eleven board 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

Please note that Michael Meeks is not elected because there can't be more than 40% of the board directors affiliated with any one corporation (here Novell Inc.). As there are 11 directors on the board, it means there can't be more than 4 directors affiliated with any one corporation.