On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:22 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > <removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] as its subscriber only> > > 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. > > > > Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination > > to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Only people invited to the kernel summit will be there in person (and > > therefore able to vote), but if you cannot attend, your nomination email > > will be read out before the voting begins. > > > > We currently have Three nominees: > > > > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Greg Kroah Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the BOF where the > > election is held (on the evening of either the 5th or 6th of 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). > > I have a reservation about voting for any of the above. > Normally during any process involving votes, there exists some sort > of "why you should vote for me" type statement. Does such a thing > exist for this process ? > > Not that I've anything against any of the above candidates, but this > should probably be more than just a popularity contest.
Yes ... well, there was a need to get away from the cronyism of OSDL in the past. The problem was to come up with a mechanism that did away with this. The elected one was about the best we could find, but if you've an alternative suggestion, by all means let's hear it. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
