From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Chris Mason To: Jani Nikula Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:27:02 +0000 Message-ID: References: <875zx0j6ek.fsf@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <875zx0j6ek.fsf@intel.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Tech Board Discuss , Kernel Summit Discussions , Dave Taht 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 14 Nov 2018, at 2:32, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Dave Taht wrote: >> I just wanted to thank everyone for a pretty well reasoned,=20 >> democratic >> and *open* election process. > > To play the devil's advocate, the TAB election process is democratic=20 > and > open to anyone travelling to the conference and handing out a few > hundred dollars to the Linux Foundation. It's only some approximation=20 > 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=20 Linux Foundation maintains a travel fund to help bring community members=20 to the conferences. -chris