Messages in this thread | | | From | Laura Abbott <> | Subject | Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections -- Call for nominations | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2019 12:48:41 -0400 |
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> On Aug 28, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> wrote: > > >> On Aug 9, 2019, at 2:26 AM, Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Friendly reminder that the TAB elections are coming soon: >> >> 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 >> also support the Code of Conduct committee in their mission. >> >> 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 2019 Kernel Summit >> in Lisbon, Portugal September 9-11. As has been announced[2], we are moving to >> an electronic voting system this year. Further details about the exact voting >> procedures will be coming soon. Anyone is eligible to stand for election, >> simply send your nomination to: >> >> tech-board-discuss at lists.linux-foundation.org >> >> With your nomination, please include a short candidate statement. This candidate >> statement should focus on why you are running and what you hope to accomplish >> on the TAB. We will be collecting these statements and making them publicly >> available. >> >> The deadline for receiving nominations is 9am GMT+1 on September 9th (the first >> day of Kernel Summit). Due to the use of electronic voting, this will be a hard >> deadline! >> >> Current TAB members, and their election year: >> >> Jon Corbet 2017 >> Greg Kroah-Hartman 2017 >> Steven Rostedt 2017 >> Ted Tso 2017 >> Tim Bird 2017 >> >> Chris Mason 2018 >> Laura Abbott 2018 >> Olof Johansson 2018 >> Kees Cook 2018 >> Dan Williams 2018 >> >> The five slots from 2017 are all up for election. As always, please >> let us know if you have questions, and please do consider running. >> >> Thanks, >> Laura >> >> [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. >> >> [2] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2019-July/006582.html > > Reminder to send in your candidate statements, the current ones are > available at > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E3_W1c-xJMx9o2PCnKiGt3vqs-mPh77yNO4GSqNipOQ
Final reminder, the deadline is Monday September 9th at 9am UTC+1 (that's 9am Lisbon time). Because we are doing electronic voting this is a hard deadline!
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