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 <mpm@selenic.com> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> 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 Bottomley (TAB Chair) --
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. --
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 6:30pm---i.e. after dinner but before the Aura event) and allow not only KS attendees but also Plumbers Conf attendees to vote. Update: The TAB has had one recent resignation, so the person coming sixth in the vote will be appointed to serve out the remainder of that term (one year). Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination to: Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org We currently have Nine nominees for the 5+1 places: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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 Bottomley (TAB Chair) --
Did Dave Jones' nomination get overlooked? https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/tech-board-discuss/2008-August/000098.html -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "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." --
Update: The BOF will now be at the Aura Lounge at 20:30 (i.e. after dinner but before people have too much to drink ...). We also have Chris Mason as the 11th nominee. 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 BOF during the Plumbers Conf Aura Lounge event at 20:30 and allow not only KS attendees but also Plumbers Conf attendees to vote. Update: The TAB has had one recent resignation, so the person coming sixth in the vote will be appointed to serve out the remainder of that term (one year). Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination to: Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org We currently have 11 nominees for the 5+1 places: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> 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 Bottomley (TAB Chair) --
Is voting only by those present? Or can people cast votes remotely? thanks, greg "i have to write a keynote that night" k-h --
As with previous elections, only those present. James --
Since the positions aren't due to be presented until then, it wouldn't be entirely fair. Of course, we can't prevent you from bribing an attendee who wasn't going to attend to be your proxy. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "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." --
