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      <h2 align="center">Advisory Board </h2>

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       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. 
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       The Advisory Board consists of representatives from the following GNOME Foundation
       member corporations:
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         Debian Project
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         Free Software Foundation
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         Hewlett-Packard
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         IBM
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         MandrakeSoft
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         Red Flag Linux
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         Red Hat
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         Sun Microsystems
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         Wipro
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         Ximian
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