Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections -- Change to charter
James Bottomley <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:26:40 -0700
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On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 17:08 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2020, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:10:29PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > > > > > > Have you considered whether the eligibility for running and > > > voting should be made the same? As it is, absolutely anyone can > > > self-nominate and run. > > > > That's always been the case. However, at least historically, > > people who weren't physically present has never been successful. > > Oh? May I ask for that to be clarified in the TAB charter, please. It's a historical observation, not a rule. In fact, it does have an exception: GregKH was elected in Edinburgh in 2012 without being physically present at the voting (although he was in Edinburgh at the time). James _______________________________________________ Ksummit-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss