Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process

[Darren Hart]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:06:47AM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> [Resending because I messed up the first one]
> 
> 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 2015 Kernel Summit in Seoul, South Korea
> (probably on the Monday, 26 October) and will be open to all attendees
> of both Kernel Summit and Korea Linux Forum.
> 
> Anyone is eligible to stand for election, simply send your nomination to:
> 
> Tech-board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> We currently have 3 nominees for five places:
> Thomas Gleixner
> Greg Kroah-Hartman
> Stephen Hemminger
> 
> The deadline for receiving nominations is up until the beginning of
> the event where the election is held. 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).
> 
> Grant Likely, TAB Chair
> 
> [1] TAB members sit for a term of 2 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 half way through their term and will be up for
> election next year. The history of the TAB elections can be found
> here:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jGLQtul0taSRq_opYzJFALI7_34cS4RMS1_YQoTNCKA/edit#gid=0

Is there a good description of what is expected of a TAB member? How much time
is involved? What makes a great TAB member?

I've found: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils/tab

I've read the charter and scanned some of the minutes, but I'd still like to
hear from some of the "incumbants". Specifically, what makes you successful as a
member of the TAB?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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