Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[Steven Rostedt]

Hello everyone,

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) serves as the 
interface between the kernel development community and the Linux 
Foundation. The TAB advises the Foundation on kernel-related matters, 
helps member companies learn to work with the community, and works to 
resolve community-related problems before they get out of hand.  We're 
also working with kernel maintainers to help refine the new code of 
conduct, and serving as the initial point of contact for code of conduct 
issues.

The board has ten members, one of whom sits on the Linux Foundation 
board of directors.

The election to select five TAB members will be held at the 2018 Kernel 
Summit in Vancouver, Canada.  The elections will take place at the 
conference center on Tuesday November 13th, at 5:30pm.

The election will be open to all attendees of all of the Linux 
Foundation events taking place that week in Vancouver.

The current list of nominees are:  (In order of submission)

 Chris Mason *
 Olof Johansson *
 Shuah Khan
 Rik van Riel *
 Kees Cook
 Laura Abbott
 Dan Williams *
 Pavel Machek
 Laurent Pinchart
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Those with a "*" next to their names are the current incumbents. There
are only four because H. Peter Anvin decided not to run for re-election.

Instead of speeches, this year we asked candidates to include 
statements about why they would like to participate in the TAB.  These 
will be combined into a slideshow running during the election, and 
available via a public google doc at this location:

https://goo.gl/rPEc2v

Current TAB members that are not up for election this year:

 Jon Corbet
 Greg Kroah-Hartman
 Steven Rostedt
 Ted Tso
 Tim Bird

As always, please let us know if you have questions.

-- Steve


[1] TAB members sit for a term of two years, and half of the board is up
for election every year. Five of the seats are up for election now.
The other five are halfway through their term and will be up for
election next year.