linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

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Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:42:09 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Tech Board Discuss 
	<Tech-board-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ksummit-2007-discuss@...nk.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:37:48PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:26:18PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:44:00PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:22:59AM -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 2007 Kernel Summit in a BOF session.
> > > 
> > > The reasons for this may be obvious with more understanding of how the 
> > > TAB came into existence, but given that the Linux Foundation isn't 
> > > limited to kernel development (see the desktop architects stuff, for 
> > > instance) it seems a bit odd for it to have a technical board that's 
> > > determined at a kernel-only event. 
> > 
> > I was under the impression that the TAB elections were being held at
> > Kernel Summit purely as a stop-gap; that this wasn't to be a regular
> > event.
> 
> And we're still looking for a better solution. Patches welcome.

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