Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

Matt Mackall
2007-08-23T00:36:43Z

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:26:18PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:44:00PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:22:59AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > The elections for five of the ten members of the Linux Foundation
> > > Technical Advisory Board[TAB] are held every year, currently the
> > > election will be at the 2007 Kernel Summit in a BOF session.
> >
> > The reasons for this may be obvious with more understanding of how the
> > TAB came into existence, but given that the Linux Foundation isn't
> > limited to kernel development (see the desktop architects stuff, for
> > instance) it seems a bit odd for it to have a technical board that's
> > determined at a kernel-only event.
>
> I was under the impression that the TAB elections were being held at
> Kernel Summit purely as a stop-gap; that this wasn't to be a regular
> event.

And we're still looking for a better solution. Patches welcome.

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