From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965896AbbJVVDa (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:03:30 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:43748 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965019AbbJVVD3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2015 17:03:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 23:03:29 +0200 From: Darren Hart To: Grant Likely Cc: tech-board , Tech Board Discuss , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "lwn@lwn.net" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process Message-ID: <20151022210329.GA5470@vmdeb7> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:06:47AM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > [Resending because I messed up the first one] > > The elections for five of the ten members of the Linux Foundation > Technical Advisory Board (TAB) are held every year[1]. This year the > election will be at the 2015 Kernel Summit in Seoul, South Korea > (probably on the Monday, 26 October) and will be open to all attendees > of both Kernel Summit and Korea Linux Forum. > > Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination to: > > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org > > We currently have 3 nominees for five places: > Thomas Gleixner > Greg Kroah-Hartman > Stephen Hemminger > > The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the beginning of > the event where the election is held. 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). > > Grant Likely, TAB Chair > > [1] TAB members sit for a term of 2 years, and half of the board is up > for election every year. Five of the seats are up for election now. > The other five are half way through their term and will be up for > election next year. The history of the TAB elections can be found > here: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jGLQtul0taSRq_opYzJFALI7_34cS4RMS1_YQoTNCKA/edit#gid=0 Is there a good description of what is expected of a TAB member? How much time is involved? What makes a great TAB member? I've found: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils/tab I've read the charter and scanned some of the minutes, but I'd still like to hear from some of the "incumbants". Specifically, what makes you successful as a member of the TAB? -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center