From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756698AbYILPsE (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753458AbYILPry (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:47:54 -0400 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:58015 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752093AbYILPrx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:47:53 -0400 Subject: Re: Updated: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election From: James Bottomley To: ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel , Tech Board Discuss In-Reply-To: <1221233681.3319.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1219264622.3258.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1221233681.3319.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:47:48 -0500 Message-Id: <1221234468.3319.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > James Bottomley > Theodore Tso > Chris Wright > Randy Dunlap > Kyle McMartin > Kristen Carlson Accardi > Matthew Wilcox > Christoph Hellwig Dave Jones > 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)