Re: Updated: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:34 -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 6:30pm---i.e. after dinner but before the Aura event) and allow
> not only KS attendees but also Plumbers Conf attendees to vote.
> 
> Update: The TAB has had one recent resignation, so the person coming
> sixth in the vote will be appointed to serve out the remainder of that
> term (one year).
> 
> Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination
> to:
> 
> Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
> 
> We currently have Nine nominees for the 5+1 places:

Sorry, missed one; we actually have Ten 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>
> Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
> Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

> 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 Bottomley (TAB Chair)