From: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
To: clm@fb.com
Cc: tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, dave.taht@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] Results: Linux Foundation Technical Board Election 2018
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:39:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG4TOxOjh_RELGgdwwOqLN9b_iYKr88=nOg662H=MgwQvfFing@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB581CD6-5D1C-4C20-9653-055829656444@fb.com>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:28 AM Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> wrote:
> On 14 Nov 2018, at 2:32, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > To play the devil's advocate, the TAB election process is democratic
> > and
> > open to anyone travelling to the conference and handing out a few
> > hundred dollars to the Linux Foundation. It's only some approximation
> > of
> > democratic and open, and we should not be complacent about that.
>
> I do understand your larger point, but it's important to remember the
> Linux Foundation maintains a travel fund to help bring community members
> to the conferences.
That is of course a positive thing but requiring travel to a
conference to vote still imposes a substantial barrier. There are
many reasons that someone may not be able to or simply not want to
undertake a multi-day trip to cast a vote, beyond financial barriers.
One might argue that requiring travel limits voting to those with
sufficient "skin in the game", but the burden of travel does not fall
evenly - for example the journey to Edinburgh is much easier for a
Scot than someone from New Zealand. I don't think anyone would argue
that we prefer to have more Scots and fewer Kiwis voting on the TAB.
- R.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-14 2:26 [Ksummit-discuss] Results: Linux Foundation Technical Board Election 2018 H. Peter Anvin
2018-11-14 3:51 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Dave Taht
2018-11-14 10:32 ` Jani Nikula
2018-11-14 17:27 ` Chris Mason
2018-11-14 17:39 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
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