From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:26:18 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox Message-ID: <20070823002618.GO9163@parisc-linux.org> References: <1187796179.3410.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> Subject: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections List-Id: public TAB mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Matthew Garrett Cc: James Bottomley , Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel , ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:44:00PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. I was under the impression that the TAB elections were being held at Kernel Summit purely as a stop-gap; that this wasn't to be a regular event. -- "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."