Survey
All TAC members, please complete prior to our meeting on April 20th:
Which LFN Projects (by lifecycle status) should have voting membership on the TAC? |
Which selection do you support for LFN Member Representation on the TAC? |
If a limited number of platinum seats are available, how should nominations work? |
If a limited number of platinum seats are available, how many seats should be made available? |
Which option do you support for at large seats on the TAC? |
Which option do you support for TAC Appointed Seats? |
From the brainstorming session on Feb 9, 2022, the TAC identified the following characteristics as desirable in a TAC member:
Potential TAC Candidate Pools
In determining a new TAC structure, some groups of possible members could be:
- Project representatives
- Which projects should be eligible to appoint/elect representatives to the TAC?
- Graduated (TAC) only
- Graduated (TAC) and Incubation
- Graduated (TAC) and Incubation and Sandbox
- How shall project representatives be elected/appointed?
- Representative is TSC Chair
- TSC appoints representative
- TSC holds election for representative
- Each TSC determines their own process
- LFN Membership representatives – current TAC membership allows each Platinum member to assign a member to the TAC.
- Which LFN members should be able to appoint members to the TAC?
- All Platinum members
- Election of X members among Platinum member appointees; voting done by Platinum GB reps if >X appointees are nominated
- Election of X & Y members among Platinum & Gold member appointees (respectively); voting done by Platinum/Gold GB reps if >X/Y appointees are nominated
- Appointees from platinum members with vetting by current TAC
- None
- At Large Membership
- Should a number of seats on the TAC be open to at-large membership?
- Who should be able to vote for these seats
- TAC Appointed Specialty Seats
- TAC may identify a limited (1-2) number of seats for needed skills & appoint representatives
Additional open questions
- How to transition?
- How elections are held?
- Number of seats for each category
Other Communities' Structures
CNCF TOC
"The Governing Board shall elect six (6) TOC members, the End User TAB shall elect two (2) TOC members, the non-sandbox project maintainers shall elect one (1) TOC member, and the TOC members shall elect an additional two (2) TOC members. Each group is defined as a Selecting Group." (source)
LF Edge
The voting members of the TAC consist of
- one representative appointed by each Premier Member; and
- one representative appointed by the technical oversight body (e.g., a technical steering committee) of each TAC Project (as defined herein).
(source)
LF AI
The voting members of the TAC consist of: i) one representative appointed by each Premier Member; and ii) one representative appointed by the technical oversight body (e.g., a technical steering committee) of each TAC Project (as defined herein). (source)