“‘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,’ James Bottomley, the TAB chair, announced on the Linux
Kernel mailing list. He noted that this voting session would be
held on the evening of September 5’th or 6’th, providing an email
address for sending nominations and adding that anyone is eligible,
‘only people invited to the kernel summit will be there in person
(and therefore able to vote), but if you cannot attend, your
nomination email will be read out before the voting begins…'”