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    SubjectRe: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections
    On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:10:40PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
    > To be brutally frank, I couldn't give a toss about choosing the perfect
    > representational system for the TAB election. In true Open Source
    > fashion, all I really care about is that we have a mechanism whereby
    > committed people can get their contributions accepted, plus we have a
    > check to keep the TAB straight and make it report to its constituency.
    > Also, being a kernel developer, I'm not unhappy with the kernel
    > community bias. Various members of the kernel community worked very
    > hard a few years ago to get OSDL to accept a list of demands and form
    > the TAB, so the kernel community currently has the motivation necessary
    > to keep it going.
    >
    > So, currently, the KS election system, while not perfect, serves its
    > purpose adequately. The section of the TAB charter that deals with
    > member elections is easy to modify. However, I really don't see us
    > changing it until either someone comes up with a better system that's
    > almost as simple to operate or we actually have motivated interest in
    > joining the TAB from outside the Kernel community that necessitates
    > moving away from KS as the electorate.

    As I'm not invited to KS this year, I am disenfranchised from the
    process. I object to this.

    --
    "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."
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