Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Tech-board-discuss] BOF Request for Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election | From | Matt Mackall <> | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:34:58 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:37 -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 2008 Kernel Summit in a BOF session. This year, > in order to allow for wider participation, we thought we'd try holding > the BFF last thing before the Plumbers Conf Aura Lounge event (say > around 5:30pm) and allow not only KS attendees but also Plumbers Conf > attendees 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: > > Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> > Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> > Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> > > The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the BOF where the > election is held (on the Evening of 16 September. 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 forgot a piece: if you can't make it to the election (ie you won't be at KS or Plumbers'), you can send a statement to be read on your behalf before the voting.
Also, I'm pretty sure we're only accepting self-nominations.
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