From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754648Ab0JTSCZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:02:25 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([72.52.115.56]:53047 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753204Ab0JTSCY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:02:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:02:11 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: James Bottomley Cc: Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel , "ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" Subject: Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process Message-Id: <20101020110211.92051a57.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <1287151254.3069.10.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <1287151254.3069.10.camel@mulgrave.site> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:00:54 -0400 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 2010 Kernel Summit in a BoF session on Tuesday > at Jillians (The Joint KS/Plumbers Reception on 2 November). The idea > is to be open to both KS and Plumbers attendees who wish to vote. > > Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination > to: > > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org I suppose that nominees will make a statement about their qualifications (or at least be allowed to do so). What does the TAB do? What has it done in the past year or two? There are no recent meeting minutes at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils/tab to try to evaluate anything about the TAB afaict. thanks, --- ~Randy