> On Aug 9, 2019, at 2:26 AM, Laura Abbott <[email protected]> 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 Thanks, Laura
