Reminder: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process

Reminder: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process

[Chris Mason]

Hello everyone,

The elections for five of the ten members of the Linux Foundation 
Technical Advisory Board (TAB) are held every year[1]. This year the
election will be at the 2016 Kernel Summit in Santa Fe, NM.

The elections will take place at the conference center on Wednesday Nov 
2nd, shortly before the evening Kernel Summit/Plumbers reception.  The 
elections will be open to all attendees of both the Kernel Summit and 
the Linux Plumbers.

Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination to:

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

Just before the election, everyone will have a chance to introduce 
themselves and briefly talk about why they would like to participate on 
the Technical Advisory Board.   This year, we're encouraging everyone to 
include those details along with their nomination, which we will compile 
into an online document for quick reference.

The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the beginning of
the event where the election is held.  Any statements for the online 
document need to be sent by Friday Oct 28th.  Please remember if
you're not going to be present that things go wrong with both networks
and mailing lists, so get your nomination in early).

Chris Mason, TAB Chair

[1] TAB members sit for a term of two years, and half of the board is up
for election every year. Five of the seats are up for election now.
The other five are halfway through their term and will be up for
election next year.

reminder: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process

[James Bottomley]

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 2011 Kernel Summit at the keysigning event on 25
October at 16:30.

Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination
to:

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

We currently have five nominees (the incumbents):

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the beginning of the
event where the election is held (i.e. at 16:30 today 25 October).
Although, please remember if you're not going to be present that things
go wrong with both networks and mailing lists, so get your nomination in
early).

James Bottomley (TAB Chair)

Reminder: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process

[James Bottomley]

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 <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the beginning of the
event where the election is held (on the Evening of 2 November Eastern
Time). Although, please remember if you're not going to be present that
things go wrong with both networks and mailing lists, so get your
nomination in early.

James Bottomley (TAB Chair)

Re: Reminder: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

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 <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
> Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
> Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
> Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
> John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Please add my name to the hat (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad@darnok.org>).

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.