2026 LF Technical Advisory Board election - call for candidates

2026 LF Technical Advisory Board election - call for candidates

[David Hildenbrand]

The 2026 election for membership on the Linux Foundation Technical
Advisory Board (TAB) will be held electronically after the 2026 Linux
Plumbers Conference, from October 8 to 15.  This announcement covers
both the call for candidates and the details of voting in this election.

The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux
Foundation and holds a seat on the LF's board of directors; it also serves
to facilitate interactions both within the community and with outside
entities.  Over the last year, the TAB has overseen the organization of the
Linux Plumbers Conference, helped develop the Linux kernel's project
continuity process, advised on GPL enforcement developments and the use of
AI, worked behind the scenes to help resolve a number of contentious
community discussions, worked with the Linux Foundation on community
conference planning, and more.

The public minutes from TAB meetings can be found in this repository:

    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/tab/tab.git/

Note that there will be an "ask us anything" session with the current TAB
at the Linux Plumbers Conference; it is currently scheduled for 09:00 AM on
Friday, October 7:

    https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2406/

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The TAB has ten members serving two-year terms; half of the board is
elected each year.  The members whose terms are expiring this year are:

  - Kees Cook
  - Dave Hansen
  - Shuah Khan
  - Miguel Ojeda

Further, the term of Dan Williams would have expired this year as well.

The members whose terms expire next year are:

  - David Hildenbrand
  - Greg Kroah-Hartman
  - Julia Lawall
  - Steve Rostedt
  - Ted Ts'o

Anybody who meets the voting criteria (described below) may
self-nominate to run in this election.  To nominate yourself, please
send an email to:

    tech-board-discuss@lists.linux.dev

Please include a short (<= 200 words) statement describing why you are
running and what you would like to accomplish on the TAB; these
statements will be collected and made publicly available.

The nomination deadline is 17:00 JST (GMT + 9) on October 8.

VOTING IN THE TAB ELECTION

The criteria for voting in this year's TAB election are unchanged from last
year.  To be eligible to vote, you must have at least three commits in a
released mainline or stable kernel that:

  - Have a commit date in 2025 or later
  - List your email in a Signed-off-by, Tested-by, Reported-by,
    Reviewed-by, or Acked-by tag.

Everybody with at least 50 commits meeting this description will receive
a ballot automatically; they will receive an email confirming this
status shortly.  Eligible voters with less than 50 commits can receive a
ballot by sending a request to tab-elections@lists.linux.dev.

We will, once again, be using the Condorcet Internet Voting Service
(CIVS) https://civs1.civs.us .  This is a voting service focused on
security and privacy.  There are sample polls on the website if you would
like to see what a ballot will look like.

Please contact tab-elections@lists.linux.dev if you have any questions.

--
Cheers,
The LF TAB elections team

Re: 2026 LF Technical Advisory Board election - call for candidates

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi David,

On Thu, 17 Sept 2026 at 20:53, David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> wrote:
> The 2026 election for membership on the Linux Foundation Technical
> Advisory Board (TAB) will be held electronically after the 2026 Linux
> Plumbers Conference, from October 8 to 15.  This announcement covers
> both the call for candidates and the details of voting in this election.

Thank you!

> The public minutes from TAB meetings can be found in this repository:
>
>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/tab/tab.git/

No minutes since last election?
Thanks again!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

Re: 2026 LF Technical Advisory Board election - call for candidates

[Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)]

On 9/17/26 20:32, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> The 2026 election for membership on the Linux Foundation Technical
> Advisory Board (TAB) will be held electronically after the 2026 Linux
> Plumbers Conference, from October 8 to 15.  This announcement covers
> both the call for candidates and the details of voting in this election.
> 
> The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux
> Foundation and holds a seat on the LF's board of directors; it also serves
> to facilitate interactions both within the community and with outside
> entities.  Over the last year, the TAB has overseen the organization of the
> Linux Plumbers Conference, helped develop the Linux kernel's project
> continuity process, advised on GPL enforcement developments and the use of
> AI, worked behind the scenes to help resolve a number of contentious
> community discussions, worked with the Linux Foundation on community
> conference planning, and more.
> 
> The public minutes from TAB meetings can be found in this repository:
> 
>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/tab/tab.git/
> 
> Note that there will be an "ask us anything" session with the current TAB
> at the Linux Plumbers Conference; it is currently scheduled for 09:00 AM on
> Friday, October 7:

Captain, it's Wednesday

> 
>     https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2406/
> 

Re: 2026 LF Technical Advisory Board election - call for candidates

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

> 
>> The public minutes from TAB meetings can be found in this repository:
>>
>>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/tab/tab.git/
> 
> No minutes since last election?
> Thanks again!

Ugh, apparently Sasha uploaded the public notes since 2020, and nobody realized
that this task would have to be taken over once his term ended ...

Thanks for raising that!

@Dave: we need someone to upload the public notes. I'm knee deep in preparing
the eligible voters and don't have any capacity for that right now.

-- 
Cheers,

David

Re: 2026 LF Technical Advisory Board election - call for candidates

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 9/18/26 09:23, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> On 9/17/26 20:32, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> The 2026 election for membership on the Linux Foundation Technical
>> Advisory Board (TAB) will be held electronically after the 2026 Linux
>> Plumbers Conference, from October 8 to 15.  This announcement covers
>> both the call for candidates and the details of voting in this election.
>>
>> The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux
>> Foundation and holds a seat on the LF's board of directors; it also serves
>> to facilitate interactions both within the community and with outside
>> entities.  Over the last year, the TAB has overseen the organization of the
>> Linux Plumbers Conference, helped develop the Linux kernel's project
>> continuity process, advised on GPL enforcement developments and the use of
>> AI, worked behind the scenes to help resolve a number of contentious
>> community discussions, worked with the Linux Foundation on community
>> conference planning, and more.
>>
>> The public minutes from TAB meetings can be found in this repository:
>>
>>     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/tab/tab.git/
>>
>> Note that there will be an "ask us anything" session with the current TAB
>> at the Linux Plumbers Conference; it is currently scheduled for 09:00 AM on
>> Friday, October 7:
> 
> Captain, it's Wednesday

Indeed, it is Wednesday my dudes!

-- 
Cheers,

David