From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757603AbXHWAgn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:36:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752168AbXHWAgg (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:36:36 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:59893 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752138AbXHWAgf (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:36:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:37:48 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matthew Garrett , James Bottomley , Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel , ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections Message-ID: <20070823003748.GR30556@waste.org> References: <1187796179.3410.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> <20070823002618.GO9163@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070823002618.GO9163@parisc-linux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.