Up until recently individual members could also elect two board members, allowing for community perspectives to be represented at the board level.
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As of last Friday, this is no longer true. The by-laws were amended to drop the clause that permitted individual members to elect any directors. Section 3.3(a) now says that no affiliate members may be involved in the election of directors, and section 5.3(d) still permits at-large directors but does not require them.
These changes all happened shortly after Karen Sandler announced that she planned to stand for the Linux Foundation board during a presentation last September.
Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, an organisation involved in the vitally important work of GPL enforcement. The Linux Foundation has historically been less than enthusiastic about GPL enforcement, and the SFC is funding a lawsuit against one of the Foundation's members for violating the terms of the GPL. wikipedia
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