From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <875zx0j6ek.fsf@intel.com> In-Reply-To: From: Roland Dreier Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:39:59 -0800 Message-ID: To: clm@fb.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, dave.taht@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] Results: Linux Foundation Technical Board Election 2018 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:28 AM Chris Mason wrote: > On 14 Nov 2018, at 2:32, Jani Nikula wrote: > > To play the devil's advocate, the TAB election process is democratic > > and > > open to anyone travelling to the conference and handing out a few > > hundred dollars to the Linux Foundation. It's only some approximation > > of > > democratic and open, and we should not be complacent about that. > > I do understand your larger point, but it's important to remember the > Linux Foundation maintains a travel fund to help bring community members > to the conferences. That is of course a positive thing but requiring travel to a conference to vote still imposes a substantial barrier. There are many reasons that someone may not be able to or simply not want to undertake a multi-day trip to cast a vote, beyond financial barriers. One might argue that requiring travel limits voting to those with sufficient "skin in the game", but the burden of travel does not fall evenly - for example the journey to Edinburgh is much easier for a Scot than someone from New Zealand. I don't think anyone would argue that we prefer to have more Scots and fewer Kiwis voting on the TAB. - R.