Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes

Posted Jan 26, 2016 21:38 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
In reply to: Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes by snits
Parent article: Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes

Everyone on the TAB is a kernel developer, yes, but anyone could be elected. The kernel summit is always co-located with a far bigger conference and everyone at the conference gets to vote.

I wasn't there last year. Normally, it's sort of chaotic... :/ I think you get a minute to explain what you would do but no microphone so it doesn't matter. Basically people just vote for whoever they know...

Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes

Posted Jan 27, 2016 2:20 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link] (2 responses)

> ...and everyone at the conference gets to vote.

and you don't even need to be at the conference to nominate. It helps though.

> Normally, it's sort of chaotic... :/

I was there last year and it seemed to run quite well, though there were comments about trying to do better this year so if your "it's" was short for "it was", that is probably accurate.

> Basically people just vote for whoever they know...

I'm sure reputation plays a large role. The 60 second presentation can help remind the audience which aspects of that reputation to focus on. While my vote was more based on reputation than presentation, both played a valuable role I think.

Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes

Posted Jan 27, 2016 9:57 UTC (Wed) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] (1 responses)

I wasn't there this year. In my first draft of that comment I wrote "You get a minute to explain your position, but the election is in the basement of a museum so it's impossible to find it in time to hear the first presentations and there isn't a microphone so it doesn't matter."

It would be better if people could put their policy statements in an email.

TAB elections

Posted Jan 27, 2016 14:55 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

The museum experience — with the bagpipe band wandering through in the middle for extra local color — was kind of a low point. That helped to motivate some improvements in the process. In 2015 there was a separate room with a microphone, paper ballots for private voting, etc. Credit is due to Kristen Accardi, who pushed for improvements in the process and laid out the new voting mechanism.