Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759663AbXHWA03 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:26:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753209AbXHWA0U (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:26:20 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:51877 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752565AbXHWA0T (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:26:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:26:18 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Matthew Garrett Cc: James Bottomley , Tech Board Discuss , linux-kernel , ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections Message-ID: <20070823002618.GO9163@parisc-linux.org> References: <1187796179.3410.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070822224400.GA17255@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1220 Lines: 25 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. -- "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/