James Bottomley announced the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results from September 5th, "sorry this has taken so long to get out ... I just, er, forgot." He noted that there were eight candidates. "Every candidate gave a nomination statement before the voting (with the three persons not present having their statements read to the meeting). We did single polling per position and had two rounds for a tie on the last candidate."

James then stated that the five people elected to the advisory board were, Arjan van de Ven, Greg Kroah Hartman, Christoph Lameter, Jon Corbett, and Olaf Kirch. The purpose of the advisory board was discussed earlier.

"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