Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759835AbXHWNt7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:49:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753169AbXHWNtu (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:49:50 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40504 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751313AbXHWNtt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:49:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:43:25 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Theodore Tso Cc: James Bottomley , Tech Board Discuss , Dave Jones , James Morris , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections Message-ID: <20070823064325.22936d60@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20070823110521.GI7267@thunk.org> References: <1187796179.3410.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070822212202.GE17546@redhat.com> <1187819038.3410.114.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070822215816.GG17546@redhat.com> <1187820866.3410.129.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070823021204.GF7267@thunk.org> <1187840997.3410.160.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070823110521.GI7267@thunk.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.11.6; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1048 Lines: 19 On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:05:21 -0400ve a bit more direct ability to make > An SPI-like or Debian-like approach with pure democracy might look > good on paper, but when you have companies donating hundreds of > thousands of dollars and up to the organization, having a board which > is elected by mobs of GPLv3 groupies would understandably scare them. > So we need some way of selecting the kernel developers who are willing > to invest the time to help the LF do the right thing with the > resources that they have been given. one thing here before people bring up the "what about the users" argument; the Linux Foundation already has a separate forum for getting input from users as well as a separate forum for "vendors"; the TAB is aimed at the developer (community) side in this 3-fora structure. - 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/