The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced the results of its 2008 Technical Advisory Board (TAB) election, which drew record numbers of candidates and voters.

The TAB consists of 10 members of the Linux kernel community, who are annually elected by their peers to serve staggered, two-year terms. The TAB collaborates with The Linux Foundation on programs and issues that affect the Linux community. The TAB chair also sits on the board of The Linux Foundation.

The newest board members, elected to serve two-year terms, are:

• James Bottomley, Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver
• Kristen Carlson Accardi, kernel developer at Intel and contributor to the ACPI, PCI, and SATA subsystems
• Christoph Hellwig, (one-year term), software architect and developer in the storage software sector
• Chris Mason, Oracle Kernel development team and creator of the Btrfs file system;
• Dave Jones, maintainer of the Fedora kernel at Red Hat
• Chris Wright, employed by Red Hat, maintainer for the LSM framework, and co-maintainer of the -stable Linux kernel tree

The TAB is completed with the remaining four members, who are serving out the rest of their two-year terms: Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Christoph Lameter, and Arjan Van de Ven.

The TAB participates in The Linux Foundation's annual events, such as its Annual Collaboration Summit taking place in San Francisco in 2009. The TAB and other community members will also participate in the first ever LinuxCon, scheduled for next fall. More information on Linux Foundation events can be found here.