From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 17:51:54 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Message-ID: <20190905215154.GA7469@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] TAB Nomination for Theodore Ts'o List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I've worked on the Linux Kernel still 1991, and have worked on the tty subsystem, serial driver, real-time linux, ext2/3/4 and e2fsprogs. I served on the board of the Free Standards Group (one of the predecessor organizations to the Linux Foundations), as well as Usenix, and have served on the program committee of many conferences including Usenix ATC, FAST, Vault, LinuxCon, and the Linux Kernel/Maintaiiner's Summit. If I am re-elected to the TAB, I'd like to work with the various conferences and workshops to better balance the technical work that gets done at these events, so that members of our community can meet with the people they need to meet, in a product setting, without certain conferences --- such as the Linux Plumbers Conference --- becoming heavily oversubscribed and over-crowded. In my opinion, this means we need to create or strengthen a strong technical conference which meets in the first half the year, which can serve as a Linux Systems Conference as vital and as exciting as the LPC is in the second half of the year. Clearly, we have a lot more technical work that we would like to do that can be accomodated by having a single really great conference once a year! I am also interested in helping to reinvigorate the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII). No, it's not completely dead, in that even in 2019, it's still funding some great work, but it certainly has the appearance of "Pining for the Fjords". We need to improve its fund-raising capacity, remove cobwebs from its web site, and make sure it can be more responsive to proposals sent to it. While this isn't a TAB function, I think there are opportunities for the TAB as a body, and for individual TAB members, to help the CII be as successful as it was when it first started.