[Tech-board-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

[Matthew Wilcox]

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.

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