Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-23 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:05:21 -0400ve a bit more direct ability to make > An SPI-like or Debian-like approach with pure democracy might look > good on paper, but when you have companies donating hundreds of > thousands of dollars and up to the organization, having a board which > is elected by mobs

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-23 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:49:57PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > Then you're misconstruing the interactions. A representational role > would imply the ability to speak for the community and make promises on > its behalf. That, as Ted has already said, can't happen. Instead, the > value to the

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 19:45 -0700, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > community. This was especially true the first year before the TAB was > > elected; but even after we held an election at last year's KS, I think > > it's fair to say that while we try to advise

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread James Morris
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > community. This was especially true the first year before the TAB was > elected; but even after we held an election at last year's KS, I think > it's fair to say that while we try to advise the OSDL and now the LF > with what the community would like, th

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 05:14:26PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > It's really just a represent the community type of role. The LF uses > the TAB to get a sense of the community for various things they and > their members are thinking. Conversely, the TAB was initially formed to > get a set of sp

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 16:47 -0700, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > > > The procedure is to read statements before the election in a BOF at the > > Kernel Summit, so the order is statements first then voting. > > Just to clarify, are sponsor delegates and KS com

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread James Morris
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > The procedure is to read statements before the election in a BOF at the > Kernel Summit, so the order is statements first then voting. Just to clarify, are sponsor delegates and KS committee members entitled to vote? - James -- James Morris <[EMAI

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:58 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:43:58PM -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 a

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:43:58PM -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. > > > > > > A

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 14:38 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:33:58 -0700 Chris Wright wrote: > > > * Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have a reservation about voting for any of the above. > > > Normally during any process involving votes, there exists some sort > >

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:22 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > 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 200

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:33:58 -0700 Chris Wright wrote: > * Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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 thin

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 ? Last year each nominee made a stat