From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751DDC10DCE for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9E5206BE for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726613AbgCMRg4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:36:56 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:59854 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726442AbgCMRgz (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:36:55 -0400 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-58-225.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.58.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62531206B7; Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:36:52 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: "Bird, Tim" Cc: James Bottomley , Jani Nikula , "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "tech-board-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Vlastimil Babka , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections -- Change to charter Message-ID: <20200313133652.4a8b1237@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: References: <20200313031947.GC225435@mit.edu> <87d09gljhj.fsf@intel.com> <20200313093548.GA2089143@kroah.com> <24c64c56-947b-4267-33b8-49a22f719c81@suse.cz> <20200313100755.GA2161605@kroah.com> <20200313103720.GA2215823@kroah.com> <20200313081216.627c5bdf@gandalf.local.home> <874kusl50q.fsf@intel.com> <20200313145206.GE225435@mit.edu> <87wo7ojnrl.fsf@intel.com> <1584113200.3391.16.camel@HansenPartnership.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:14:51 +0000 "Bird, Tim" wrote: > I was elected in Prague in 2017. I was onsite, but had a conflict so > was not present for the vote. So it's happened, but it has been rare > for someone to be elected while not present at the vote. I'll be honest. > The fact that ELC was co-located with the kernel summit that year > probably had a lot to do with my win. IMHO it would be nice > to reduce the effect of the event pairing on the elections, so I really > welcome the movement to absentee voting (even though it helped > me once :-) ). Last year I too was on site, but missed the election meeting as I was too busy running Plumbers ;-) (Like you were running ELC) And I too was elected. But last year was the first time we had electronic voting and you could vote without being at the election. You only had to be present at the conference. Last year we also removed the speech and instead only had the published statements. -- Steve