From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall In-Reply-To: <1219264622.3258.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1219264622.3258.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:34:58 -0500 Message-Id: <1219268098.7576.1138.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] BOF Request for Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election List-Id: public TAB mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: James Bottomley Cc: ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:37 -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 2008 Kernel Summit in a BOF session. This year, > in order to allow for wider participation, we thought we'd try holding > the BFF last thing before the Plumbers Conf Aura Lounge event (say > around 5:30pm) and allow not only KS attendees but also Plumbers Conf > attendees to vote. > > Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination > to: > > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org > > We currently have Five nominees: > > Matt Mackall > James Bottomley > Theodore Tso > Chris Wright > Randy Dunlap > > The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the BOF where the > election is held (on the Evening of 16 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 forgot a piece: if you can't make it to the election (ie you won't be at KS or Plumbers'), you can send a statement to be read on your behalf before the voting. Also, I'm pretty sure we're only accepting self-nominations. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.