Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

[Laura Abbott]

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.

Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Laura,

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 4:27 PM Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> wrote:
> 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

It seems there are no minutes more recent than October 2020?
Are they just missing, or were there no meetings?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 06:34:53PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Laura,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 4:27 PM Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> It seems there are no minutes more recent than October 2020?
> Are they just missing, or were there no meetings?

Hey Geert,

Thanks for pointing that out. There definitely were meetings. It seems
the minutes repo simply hasn't been kept up to date.
I just brought this up and we will update the repo soon and I'll notify
here.

Thanks!
Christian

Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

[Laura Abbott]

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.

Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

[Laura Abbott]

On 8/25/21 10:27, 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.

Final reminder: nominations are due September 20th at 9:00AM GMT-4
(US/Eastern)

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 9:43 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 06:34:53PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 4:27 PM Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > It seems there are no minutes more recent than October 2020?
> > Are they just missing, or were there no meetings?
>
> Hey Geert,
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. There definitely were meetings. It seems
> the minutes repo simply hasn't been kept up to date.
> I just brought this up and we will update the repo soon and I'll notify
> here.

Thanks, the minutes until June 2021 have appeared.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds