Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:00:54AM -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 would like to place my name into consideration.

Many of you have at least some idea of who I am.  For others, a
few highlights:

	-- wireless LAN maintainer since early-2006

	-- Red Hat employee since mid-2004; and,

	-- prior experience developing embedded software
	   for networking boxes (i.e. switches and routers), including
	   some time as "the Linux guy" at a startup.

In my time as a public member of the Linux community, I think I have
demonstrated the ability to facilitate cooperation between individual
contributors, distributions, and hardware vendors.  I've 'been around'
long enough to know the 'lay of the land' for getting things done,
and I have good relationships with a variety of community members
including members of other firms and staff at community organizations
such as the Linux Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center.

As for an agenda, I don't really have one.  As Randy attempts to
illustrate, what the TAB does is not always clear to those of us who
aren't members of it.  That said, my goal is simply to exercise my best
judgment while representing the community at large and to give good
council to the Linux Foundation on how best to serve that community.

Thanks,

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.