Re: [Tech-board-discuss] BOF Request for Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:37 -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 2008 Kernel Summit in a BOF session.  This year,
> in order to allow for wider participation, we thought we'd try holding
> the BFF last thing before the Plumbers Conf Aura Lounge event (say
> around 5:30pm) and allow not only KS attendees but also Plumbers Conf
> attendees to vote.
> 
> Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination
> to:
> 
> Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
> 
> We currently have Five nominees:
> 
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
> Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> 
> The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the BOF where the
> election is held (on the Evening of 16 September. Although, please
> remember if you're not going to be present that things go wrong with
> both networks and mailing lists, so get your nomination in
> early).

James forgot a piece: if you can't make it to the election (ie you won't
be at KS or Plumbers'), you can send a statement to be read on your
behalf before the voting.

Also, I'm pretty sure we're only accepting self-nominations.

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