Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[James Bottomley]

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.

Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination
to:

Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org

Only people invited to the kernel summit will be there in person (and
therefore able to vote), but if you cannot attend, your nomination email
will be read out before the voting begins.

We currently have Three nominees:

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Greg Kroah Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>

The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the BOF where the
election is held (on the evening of either the 5th or 6th of September.
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).

James Bottomley (TAB Chair)

Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[Scott Preece]

On 8/22/07, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> 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.
>
> Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination
> to:
>
> Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
> ...

Could you post the list of who the current members are and which ones
hold the seats that are open this year?

thanks,
scott

-- 
scott preece

Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[Dave Jones]

<removed ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org as its subscriber only>

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.
 > 
 > Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination
 > to:
 > 
 > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
 > 
 > Only people invited to the kernel summit will be there in person (and
 > therefore able to vote), but if you cannot attend, your nomination email
 > will be read out before the voting begins.
 > 
 > We currently have Three nominees:
 > 
 > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
 > Greg Kroah Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
 > Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
 > 
 > The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the BOF where the
 > election is held (on the evening of either the 5th or 6th of September.
 > 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).

I have a reservation about voting for any of the above.
Normally during any process involving votes, there exists some sort
of "why you should vote for me" type statement.  Does such a thing
exist for this process ?

Not that I've anything against any of the above candidates, but this
should probably be more than just a popularity contest.

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[James Bottomley]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:56 -0500, Scott Preece wrote:
> On 8/22/07, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> 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.
> >
> > Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination
> > to:
> >
> > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
> > ...
> 
> Could you post the list of who the current members are and which ones
> hold the seats that are open this year?

The LF still hasn't got it's new website updated with the TAB details,
but they're here on the old site:

http://old.linux-foundation.org/about_osdl/technical_advisory_board/document_view

The people whose terms end this year are:

Andrew Morton
Wim Coekaerts
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Arjan van de Ven
Christoph Lameter

James

Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[Matthew Garrett]

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. 

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[Steven Rostedt]

Hello everyone,

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) serves as the 
interface between the kernel development community and the Linux 
Foundation. The TAB advises the Foundation on kernel-related matters, 
helps member companies learn to work with the community, and works to 
resolve community-related problems before they get out of hand.  We're 
also working with kernel maintainers to help refine the new code of 
conduct, and serving as the initial point of contact for code of conduct 
issues.

The board has ten members, one of whom sits on the Linux Foundation 
board of directors.

The election to select five TAB members will be held at the 2018 Kernel 
Summit in Vancouver, Canada.  The elections will take place at the 
conference center on Tuesday November 13th, at 5:30pm.

The election will be open to all attendees of all of the Linux 
Foundation events taking place that week in Vancouver.

The current list of nominees are:  (In order of submission)

 Chris Mason *
 Olof Johansson *
 Shuah Khan
 Rik van Riel *
 Kees Cook
 Laura Abbott
 Dan Williams *
 Pavel Machek
 Laurent Pinchart
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Those with a "*" next to their names are the current incumbents. There
are only four because H. Peter Anvin decided not to run for re-election.

Instead of speeches, this year we asked candidates to include 
statements about why they would like to participate in the TAB.  These 
will be combined into a slideshow running during the election, and 
available via a public google doc at this location:

https://goo.gl/rPEc2v

Current TAB members that are not up for election this year:

 Jon Corbet
 Greg Kroah-Hartman
 Steven Rostedt
 Ted Tso
 Tim Bird

As always, please let us know if you have questions.

-- Steve


[1] TAB members sit for a term of two 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 halfway through their term and will be up for
election next year.