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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:16:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> To: Jes Sorensen <jes@....com> cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, Tech Board Discuss <Tech-board-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>, ksummit-2007-discuss@...nk.org Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Right now it looks like we have a list of sane candidates up, which I > certainly would be willing to vote for. However, it would be a shame > that the credibility of the election is lost because of sticking to an > undemocratic voting procedure. A procedure which it in fact was stated > when the board was created last year, would be replaced this year. Democracy is an ideal that is not attainable. A representative democracy is usually the best you can get. So you need people that have some competence to contribute to the endeavor. And AFAICT we approximate that reasonably. Many of the people that were not subject to the git commit quota are experienced hands that are valuable because of their experience with Linux and the Summit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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