From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755710Ab0JaNOS (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:14:18 -0400 Received: from andromeda.dapyr.net ([206.212.254.10]:46661 "EHLO andromeda.dapyr.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755616Ab0JaNOP (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:14:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:13:44 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: James Bottomley Cc: Tech Board Discuss , "ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Reminder: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process Message-ID: <20101031131344.GA20351@andromeda.dapyr.net> References: <1288155077.19649.356.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1288155077.19649.356.camel@mulgrave.site> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:51:17PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > The elections for five of the ten members of the Linux Foundation > Technical Advisory Board[TAB] are held every year, currently the > election will be at the 2010 Kernel Summit in a BoF session on Tuesday > at Jillians (The Joint KS/Plumbers Reception on 2 November). The idea > is to be open to both KS and Plumbers attendees who wish to vote. > > Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination > to: > > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org > > We currently have five nominees: > > James Bottomley > Chris Mason > Chris Wright > Grant Likely > John W. Linville Please add my name to the hat (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ). Here is a list of things I've been involved in over the past 8 years: - Linux system management tools. Worked on an unified system management toolkit using the DMTF standards. The idea was to have one Enterprise Tool (HP OpenView, IBM Director,etc) be able to manage Linux, AIX, Windows machines. (openhpi.org, openpegasus.org) - Expand and solve engineering gaps of IBM hardware running Intel and AMD cpus with Red Hat. I worked as an OS engineer trying to get RHEL to work on IBM's boxes properly. (RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 kernels, some RPM packages, look for Konrad Rzeszutek in Changelog). - Worked on iSCSI stack and Xen to expand a startup company's support for various storage options and virtualization. Submitted kernel bug-fixes, and wrote userland support code (www.virtualirondom0.com) - About a year ago broadened my knowledge of everything in Linux kernel and now co-maintain the Linux Xen tree with Jeremy Fitzhardinge. (xen-devel mailing list, git log --oneline --grep="Konrad Rz" v2.6.22..) I've worked with/in huge companies (IBM), large (Oracle), medium (Red Hat) and small (Virtual Iron), so I am quite aware of the cultural differences and understand what makes some companies tick, so I have a lot of experience fostering bi-directional interactions. My qualifications are very quite broad - I've done stuff in userland, the kernel, the hypervisor, etc - and also posses soft skills which I think would be useful: negotiating, building relationships, mentoring, etc.