Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections -- Call for nominations

[Laura Abbott]

> On Aug 28, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Laura Abbott <laura@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Aug 9, 2019, at 2:26 AM, Laura Abbott <laura@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Friendly reminder that the TAB elections are coming soon:
>> 
>> The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) serves as the
>> interface between the kernel development community and the Linux
>> Foundation. The TAB advises the Foundation on kernel-related matters,
>> helps member companies learn to work with the community, and works to
>> resolve community-related problems before they get out of hand.  We
>> also support the Code of Conduct committee in their mission.
>> 
>> The board has ten members, one of whom sits on the Linux Foundation
>> board of directors.
>> 
>> The election to select five TAB members will be held at the 2019 Kernel Summit
>> in Lisbon, Portugal September 9-11. As has been announced[2], we are moving to
>> an electronic voting system this year. Further details about the exact voting
>> procedures will be coming soon. Anyone is eligible to stand for election,
>> simply send your nomination to:
>> 
>> tech-board-discuss at lists.linux-foundation.org
>> 
>> With your nomination, please include a short candidate statement. This candidate
>> statement should focus 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 9am GMT+1 on September 9th (the first
>> day of Kernel Summit). Due to the use of electronic voting, this will be a hard
>> deadline!
>> 
>> Current TAB members, and their election year:
>> 
>> Jon Corbet		2017
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman	2017
>> Steven Rostedt		2017
>> Ted Tso			2017
>> Tim Bird		2017
>> 
>> Chris Mason		2018
>> Laura Abbott		2018
>> Olof Johansson		2018
>> Kees Cook		2018
>> Dan Williams		2018
>> 
>> The five slots from 2017 are all up for election.  As always, please
>> let us know if you have questions, and please do consider running.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
>> 
>> [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.
>> 
>> [2] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2019-July/006582.html
> 
> Reminder to send in your candidate statements, the current ones are
> available at 
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E3_W1c-xJMx9o2PCnKiGt3vqs-mPh77yNO4GSqNipOQ


Final reminder, the deadline is Monday September 9th at  9am UTC+1
(that's 9am Lisbon time). Because we are doing electronic voting this is a hard deadline!