From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755159Ab0JTSpS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:45:18 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:34703 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754300Ab0JTSpP (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:45:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:42:09 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" 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: <20101020184209.GA2404@tuxdriver.com> References: <1287151254.3069.10.camel@mulgrave.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287151254.3069.10.camel@mulgrave.site> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.