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[74.109.246.95]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t24sm9642164qkg.28.2021.09.07.10.18.46 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees From: Laura Abbott To: ksummit@lists.linux.dev, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" References: Message-ID: <42112cbe-52ab-7e0f-871b-9940e2f37b04@labbott.name> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:18:46 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 8/25/21 10:27 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: > The election for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) > will be held virtually during the 2021 Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers > Conference, September 20th-24th 2021. Nominations for candidates > interested in serving on the TAB are currently being sought. > > The TAB serves as the interface between the kernel development community > and the Linux Foundation, advising the Foundation on kernel-related > matters, helping member companies learn to work with the community, and > working to resolve community-related problems (preferably before they > get out of hand). We also support the Code of Conduct committee in > their mission. > > Over the last year, matters tended to by the TAB include proposals for > developer workflow improvement, overseeing the Linux Plumbers > Conference, supporting the review of the University of Minnesota > patches and more.  Minutes from TAB meetings can be found here: > >     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/tab/tab.git/tree/minutes > > The board has ten members, one of whom sits on the Linux Foundation > board of directors.  Half of the board (five members) is elected every > year to serve a two-year term.  The members whose terms are expiring > this year are: > >     Greg Kroah-Hartman >     Jonathan Corbet >     Sasha Levin >     Steven Rostedt >     Ted Ts'o > > The remaining members' terms will expire in 2022: > >     Chris Mason (chair) >     Dan Williams >     Kees Cook >     Laura Abbott >     Christian Brauner > > The eligibility to run for the TAB is the same as the voting criteria: > > There exist three kernel commits in a mainline or stable released > kernel that: > - Have a commit date in the year 2020 or 2021 > - Contain an e-mail address in one of the following tags or merged > tags (e.g. Reviewed-and-tested-by) > -- Signed-off-by > -- Tested-by > -- Reported-by > -- Reviewed-by > -- Acked-by > > Please send your nomination to: > >     tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org > > With your nomination, please include a short (<= 200 words) candidate > statement focusing 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 9:00AM GMT-4 (US/Eastern) on > September 20th (the first day of Kernel Summit). Due to the use of > electronic voting, this will be a hard deadline! > > As always, please let us know if you have questions (the TAB can be > reached at tab@lists.linuxfoundation.org), and please do consider > running and encouraging others to vote. Reminder: Please send in your nominations for the TAB. The deadline is September 20th.