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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Linux Foundation Board Members are Officially Announced

http://www.linux-foundation.org/wordpress/?p=336

The declared an aim to attract board members from every corner of the diverse Linux ecosystem, and looking at the list, I’d say the Linux Foundation is off to a great start. Somehow, Microsoft did not earn a board seat with the Novell deal - shocking, I know.

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its new board of directors, a diverse group that represents the key stakeholders from every corner of the Linux ecosystem: the Linux kernel community, Linux vendors, distributions and users, as well as individual open source leaders.

Board Members (the URL above has very brief bios if you don’t recognize a name) in alphabetical order by last name:

• James Bottomley, SteelEye
• Wim Coekaerts, Oracle
• Masahiro Date, Fujitsu
• Doug Fisher, Intel
• Dan Frye, IBM
• Tim Golden, Bank of America
• Hisashi Hashimoto, Hitachi
• Christine Martino, HP
• Marc Miller, AMD
• Brian Pawlowski, NetApp
• Markus Rex, Novell
• Tsugikazu Shibata, NEC
• Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu
• Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer Updegrove LLP
• Christy Wyatt, Motorola