There will be a MAC chair election before the end of the year so that the new chair can hit the ground running in 2021. We encourage all MAC members to consider a self-nomination.
Dates to Remember
- Nominations Due: Nov 13
- Poll published: Nov 16
- Poll closes 9:00 AM PT on Thursday, Dec 3
- Results posted on Friday, Dec 4
- Onboarding call with LFN staff week of Dec 7
Role of MAC Chair
The MAC Chair will represent the MAC in LFN Governing Board meetings in a non-voting capacity. S/he will communicate the Board's strategic goals and direction to the MAC, and communicate the MAC plans, activities and achievements to the Board. In addition, the Chair is expected to serve as a general resource for the MAC community, working in close partnership with LF Staff.
The Chair is an individual position, unrelated to the organization that person represents. If the individual serving as Chair leaves the MAC for any reason, a new election will be held.
Interested in the role? Please submit a self-nomination to bwick@linuxfoundation.org. Please include a note with a brief bio + interest in the role + goals for the MAC (400 Words Max).
See Example Below from the first LFN MAC Chair, Balaji.
Balaji Ethirajulu
Bio
Balaji Ethirajulu, Director Product Marketing at Ericsson Silicon Valley, has over 25 years of experience in telecom industry. He has worked in Product management, technology strategy, Marketing, Engineering, and professional services. His current focus & passion is around containers, micro services architecture, Kubernetes, Management & Orchestration, NFV & SDN transformation, Analytics, open source projects - ONAP, ODL, OPNFV, FD-io and service assurance for hybrid networks.
As a Marketing community member and chair of some of the Open source projects, he has consistently maintained neutrality, providing best practices, innovation, community building and marketing strategies to various open source projects.
- Organized several Open source mini summits including speeches & panels, produced content for the open source website, and created yearly marketing plans including strategy & budget.
- Presented monthly marketing activities and plans to the Board.
- As a spokesperson, promoted the Opensource projects in industry analysts briefing and media interviews. Contributed content for several PR’s.
- Promoted and discussed open source projects with potential new members.
- Managed bi-weekly marketing committee meetings & f2f meetings, worked with LF team on marketing plans, budgets, events, PR’s, and other promotions.
- Collaborated with various Linux Foundation teams (Management, Marketing, Events, projects, and technical teams) to manage all marketing activities. Also, well-versed in LF’s bylaws, industry, and other trade practices with respect to Marketing.
Previously, Balaji worked in many technology areas including SDN, IP, Radio (3G, 4G), IMS, Mobile core, OSS, Network management and service assurance systems. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in telecommunication engineering and an MBA from university of Dallas.