Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:29:07 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
       Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
       Tech Board Discuss 
	<Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
       ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org
Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:10:40PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> To be brutally frank, I couldn't give a toss about choosing the perfect
> representational system for the TAB election.  In true Open Source
> fashion, all I really care about is that we have a mechanism whereby
> committed people can get their contributions accepted, plus we have a
> check to keep the TAB straight and make it report to its constituency.
> Also, being a kernel developer, I'm not unhappy with the kernel
> community bias.  Various members of the kernel community worked very
> hard a few years ago to get OSDL to accept a list of demands and form
> the TAB, so the kernel community currently has the motivation necessary
> to keep it going.
> 
> So, currently, the KS election system, while not perfect, serves its
> purpose adequately.  The section of the TAB charter that deals with
> member elections is easy to modify.  However, I really don't see us
> changing it until either someone comes up with a better system that's
> almost as simple to operate or we actually have motivated interest in
> joining the TAB from outside the Kernel community that necessitates
> moving away from KS as the electorate.

As I'm not invited to KS this year, I am disenfranchised from the
process.  I object to this.

-- 
"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."
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