Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation 2020 Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominations

[Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>]

On 8/3/20 5:36 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> The election for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) will
> be held virtually during the 2020 Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers
> Conference, August 24-28 2020.  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 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,
> moving toward more inclusive terminology in the kernel, 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:
> 
> 	Chris Mason (chair)
> 	Dan Williams
> 	Kees Cook
> 	Laura Abbott
> 	Olof Johansson
> 
> The remaining members' terms will expire in 2021:
> 
> 	Greg Kroah-Hartman
> 	Jonathan Corbet
> 	Sasha Levin
> 	Steven Rostedt
> 	Ted Ts'o
> 	
> Anyone is eligible to stand for election; simply 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
> August 24 (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 tech-board@lists.linuxfoundation.org), and please do consider running.

As a reminder, the deadline for nominations is coming up. Please get
your nominations in!

Thanks,
Laura
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