2023 Technical Advisory Board election info and call for nominees

2023 Technical Advisory Board election info and call for nominees

[Dave Hansen]

The 2023 election for membership on the Linux Foundation Technical
Advisory Board (TAB) will be held electronically during the 2023 Linux
Plumbers Conference, from November 13 to 15.  This announcement covers
both the call for candidates and the details of voting in this election.

The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux
Foundation; it also serves to facilitate interactions both within the
community and with outside entities.  Over the last year, the TAB has
overseen the organization of the Linux Plumbers Conference, released a
kernel  contribution maturity model for organizations, advised on
code-of-conduct issues, and more.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The TAB has ten members serving two-year terms; half of the board is
elected each year.  The members whose terms are expiring this year are:

 - Jonathan Corbet
 - Greg Kroah-Hartman
 - Sasha Levin
 - Steve Rostedt
 - Ted Ts'o

The members whose terms expire next year are:

 - Christian Brauner
 - Kees Cook
 - Dave Hansen
 - Jakub Kicinski
 - Dan Williams

Anybody who meets the voting criteria (described below) may
self-nominate to run in this election.  To nominate yourself, please
send an email to:

	tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org

Please include a short (<= 200 words) statement describing why you are
running and what you would like to accomplish on the TAB; these
statements will be collected and made publicly available.

The nomination deadline is 9:00AM EST (GMT-5) on November 13.

VOTING IN THE TAB ELECTION

The criteria for voting in this year's TAB election are unchanged from
2022.  To be eligible to vote, you must have at least three commits in a
released mainline or stable kernel that:

 - Have a commit date in 2022 or later
 - List your email in a Signed-off-by, Tested-by, Reported-by, Reviewed-
   by, or Acked-by tag.

Everybody with at least 50 commits meeting this description will receive
a ballot automatically; they will receive an email confirming this
status shortly.  Eligible voters with less than 50 commits can receive a
ballot by sending a request to tab-elections@lists.linuxfoundation.org.

We will, once again, be using the Condorcet Internet Voting Service
(CIVS) https://civs1.civs.us/ . This is a voting service focused on
security and privacy. There are sample polls on the website if you would
like to see what a ballot will look like.

Please contact tab-elections@lists.linuxfoundation.org if you have any
questions.