The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

[Posted October 28, 2013 by corbet]

From:		James Bottomley <James.Bottomley-AT-HansenPartnership.com>
To:		Tech Board Discuss <Tech-board-discuss-AT-lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject:		TAB election results [was Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections and Nomination process]
Date:		Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:42:00 +0100
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Cc:		ksummit-2013-discuss-AT-lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>
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Elected to the TAB for a two year term at the National Museum of
Scotland event were:

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

James


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The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 28, 2013 22:45 UTC (Mon) by bagder (guest, #38414) [Link] (4 responses)

Jonathan, perhaps you could entertain us all with some insights of your work on this board? Like exactly what you do there... I might not be the only person around here without a firm grip of this.

For one, I have to thank Jonathan...

Posted Oct 28, 2013 23:09 UTC (Mon) by gwolf (subscriber, #14632) [Link] (3 responses)

As he has translated many interesting low-level work into very readable, very interesting articles posted here to LWN. I have used several of his articles in my Operating Systems class.

Of course, that by itself does not merit being appointed to the board — but it reflects Jonathan has a very good eyesight on very varied kernel subsystems.

Oh, and I could say something quite similar regarding Matthew Garrett, although their respective styles could hardly be any more different ;-)

For one, I have to thank Jonathan...

Posted Oct 28, 2013 23:32 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Jonathan has also written various tomes on kernel programming iirc ...

From the perspective of a technical writer, not a programmer, admittedly, but actually that's an area where the kernel is incredibly weak - well-written documentation written in a comprehensible manner!

Cheers,
Wol

For one, I have to thank Jonathan...

Posted Oct 29, 2013 10:45 UTC (Tue) by eternaleye (guest, #67051) [Link]

I think the question was more asking for Jonathan's insight into what the board does.

For one, I have to thank Jonathan...

Posted Oct 29, 2013 13:21 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

I think you are misinterpreting the OP question, which is about what the board do, rather than why Jon is part of it. (Jon was reelected).

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 5:07 UTC (Tue) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link] (17 responses)

I maybe trolling here. But anyways out of curiosity, How did Sarah sharp qualify to this position among the other kernel developers?

Didn't any other senior kernel developers volunteer for this?

If anyone knows any info enlighten me.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 5:18 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Winning the election is based on votes and not based on seniority. No reason to single her out.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 8:57 UTC (Tue) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link]

She's a kernel subsystem maintainer with more than 6 years serious involvement. Regarding diversity, you might rather ask why the technical advisory board vastly overrepresents kernel programmers as opposed to people working in userspace who have to actually work with the delivered goods.

Sarah Sharp qualifies just fine among the other kernel developers as far as I can tell, see this article.

I think it would be a rather bad idea to compose a board entirely from "senior kernel developers" (more senior than Sarah, that is) since that would not really provide many new insights.

You could equally well just nominate Linus Torvalds and be done. Business as usual is easy to achieve this manner.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 9:00 UTC (Tue) by jku (subscriber, #42379) [Link] (5 responses)

If you are not trolling yet still present the question in the way you do (implying that any even more senior kernel developer would automatically have been better than her), I assume you must have taken the time to read what Sarah has written on the subject and decided that the experience and perspective she was offering were not up to par. Have you?

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 13:58 UTC (Tue) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link] (4 responses)

I did read this https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/linux-develope... few months ago when she raised her concern about the abusive words used in LKML https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/427.

I read her nomination too..
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/tech-board-dis...

I don't have anything against her or women in general.
But I guess she became famous overnight with that LKML thread.

But I gues she would be as good as any other candidate like Josh Triplett, who was another candidate.

I can't imagine what amount of power this TAB http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils... can give you, But I cannot erase the idea that her LKML thread played the winning card in the minds of the voting poeple.

Who ever might be in the TAB, lets hope its for the best.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 15:02 UTC (Tue) by masoncl (subscriber, #47138) [Link] (1 responses)

I've been on the TAB a few years now, and I've definitely enjoyed my time there.

At the end of the day, the TAB is really a service position. You don't gain power or influence you didn't already have, but you do get a few more opportunities to engage with the community and the Linux Foundation.

Both Matthew and Sarah have a long list of credentials and I look forward to working with them.

-chris

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 16:31 UTC (Tue) by agrover (guest, #55381) [Link]

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils...

As someone who is interested in the kernel, the LF, and the TAB, I'd love to get more insight into what the TAB does. Any chance we could get public minutes postings going again?

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 18:01 UTC (Tue) by opalmirror (subscriber, #23465) [Link] (1 responses)

While a broad set of press picked up the story of her criticism of unconstructive dialogue -- making it seem as if she were famous overnight -- Sarah was already well known to the community, having been of long-time involvement in intelligent discourse, Linux Plumbers conference, subsystem maintainer, and many other projects. In a service position she has already proven that she will very work hard on any project that is of general value, won't constrain herself to her pet projects or attitudes, and has the necessary bridge-building social skills. The electors apparently feel this is compatible with the TAC's needs and values.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 18:02 UTC (Tue) by opalmirror (subscriber, #23465) [Link]

or TAB, rather.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 11:11 UTC (Tue) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link] (5 responses)

IOW, "How dare you elect a woman? Women cannot be proper geeks!"?

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 11:20 UTC (Tue) by thumperward (guest, #34368) [Link] (1 responses)

I would imagine that's exactly the angle the parent poster was going for, yes. "I'm only trying to learn. Please help me to understand."

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 14:20 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

That is an excellent resource.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 14:37 UTC (Tue) by Mithrandir (guest, #3031) [Link] (1 responses)

Joss Whedon on strong women.

http://www.upworthy.com/48-reporters-asked-this-guy-the-s...

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 22:23 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

I'm glad something good came out of this thread!

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 14:38 UTC (Tue) by Mithrandir (guest, #3031) [Link]

Joss Whedon on strong women:

http://www.upworthy.com/48-reporters-asked-this-guy-the-s...

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 12:20 UTC (Tue) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

> How did Sarah sharp qualify to this position among the other kernel developers?

She's a kernel subsystem maintainer. That is more than enough to qualify her.

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 23:25 UTC (Tue) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link]

But is it enough to compensate for the possible cootie infection? :)

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results

Posted Oct 29, 2013 15:31 UTC (Tue) by el_presidente (guest, #87621) [Link]

The Commandant: Let's go over this one more time, just to make sure I understand the situation.
[clears throat]
The Commandant: You're a girl?