Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: call for nominees

[Laura Abbott]

On 8/25/21 10:27 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The election for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
> will be held virtually during the 2021 Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers
> Conference, September 20th-24th 2021. Nominations for candidates
> interested in serving on the TAB are currently being sought.
>
> The TAB serves as the interface between the kernel development community
> and the Linux Foundation, advising the Foundation on kernel-related
> matters, helping member companies learn to work with the community, and
> working to resolve community-related problems (preferably before they
> get out of hand). We also support the Code of Conduct committee in
> their mission.
>
> Over the last year, matters tended to by the TAB include proposals for
> developer workflow improvement, overseeing the Linux Plumbers 
> Conference, supporting the review of the University of Minnesota
> patches and more.  Minutes from TAB meetings can be found here:
>
>      https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/tab/tab.git/tree/minutes
>
> The board has ten members, one of whom sits on the Linux Foundation
> board of directors.  Half of the board (five members) is elected every
> year to serve a two-year term.  The members whose terms are expiring
> this year are:
>
>      Greg Kroah-Hartman
>      Jonathan Corbet
>      Sasha Levin
>      Steven Rostedt
>      Ted Ts'o
>
> The remaining members' terms will expire in 2022:
>
>      Chris Mason (chair)
>      Dan Williams
>      Kees Cook
>      Laura Abbott
>      Christian Brauner
>
> The eligibility to run for the TAB is the same as the voting criteria:
>
> There exist three kernel commits in a mainline or stable released
> kernel that:
> - Have a commit date in the year 2020 or 2021
> - Contain an e-mail address in one of the following tags or merged
> tags (e.g. Reviewed-and-tested-by)
> -- Signed-off-by
> -- Tested-by
> -- Reported-by
> -- Reviewed-by
> -- Acked-by
>
> Please send your nomination to:
>
>      tech-board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> With your nomination, please include a short (<= 200 words) candidate
> statement focusing 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 9:00AM GMT-4 (US/Eastern) on
> September 20th (the first day of Kernel Summit). Due to the use of
> electronic voting, this will be a hard deadline!
>
> As always, please let us know if you have questions (the TAB can be
> reached at tab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), and please do consider
> running and encouraging others to vote.

Reminder: Please send in your nominations for the TAB. The deadline is
September 20th.