Upcoming Vacant Developer Membership Board seats: Call for nominations

By lyz | Published: 2017-03-14

The membership of Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre in the Developer Membership board will be expiring shortly and Adam Conrad’s membership will expire a few months after that. Subsequently, this email is a call for nominations to fill both of their positions although one elected developer will not begin their term immediately.

The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers, meeting for about an hour once a fortnight. Candidates should be Ubuntu developers themselves, and should be well qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu developers and decide when to entrust them with developer privileges or to grant them Ubuntu membership status.

The new member will be chosen using Condorcet voting. Members of the ubuntu-dev team in Launchpad will be eligible to vote. To ensure that you receive a ballot in the initial mail, please add a visible email address to your Launchpad profile (although there will be an opportunity to receive a ballot after the vote has started if you do not wish to do this).

The term of the new board members will be at least two years (there will be some changes to terms to get these two positions to share the same expiration date). Providing at least three valid nominations are received, voting will commence on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 and will last for approximately 7 days, ending on or around Wednesday, March 29, 2017. The DMB will confirm the appointments in its next meeting thereafter.

Please send GPG-signed nominations to developer-membership-board at lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by DMB members) by midnight UTC on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.

If nominating a developer other than yourself, please confirm that the nominee is happy to sit on the board before emailing the DMB.

Please consider writing a short statement on your wiki page if nominated so that others get a better idea of for whom they are voting. If you include a link to this wiki page in your nomination mail or a followup, the DMB will share it when the call for votes begins.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list on Tue Mar 14 21:44:49 UTC 2017 by Brian Murray, on behalf of the DMB

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 502

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2017-03-14

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #502 for the week March 6 – March 12, 2017, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Simon Quigley
  • Chris Guiver
  • Jose Antonio Rey
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 501

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2017-03-07

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #501 for the week of February 27 – March 5, 2017, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Chris Guiver
  • Paul White
  • Simon Quigley
  • David Morfin
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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IRC Council call for nominations 2017

By lyz | Published: 2017-03-01

The current IRC council has two members whose two year terms are ending. This means it is now election season. The expiring council members are:

  • Elky (Melissa Draper)
  • Flannel (Neal Bussett)

Details about the IRC Council and its charter may be viewed here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil. Council members serve a two year term, and may stand for multiple terms.

As explained on the wiki page the election process is as follows:

  • An open call for nominations should be announced in the IRC Community, and people can nominate themselves for a seat on the council. Any Ubuntu member is welcome to apply.
  • To apply for a seat the candidate must create a Wiki page outlining their work in the community, and inviting others to provide testimonials.
  • When the application deadline has passed, the IRC Council will review the applications and provide feedback on the candidates for the Community Council to review.
  • The Community Council will identify a shortlist for the board and circulate the list publicly for feedback from the community.
  • The shortlist identified by the Community Council will be voted upon by team members as described at CommunityCouncil/Delegation. Members of the Ubuntu IRC Members Team are eligible to vote.
  • The Community Council will then finalize the appointment of IRC Council members.

PLEASE NOTE: once started, the voting pool (collected from the Ubuntu IRC Members Team list) will not be changed. So… please make sure you are a member of the team. The only exception to this will be current members that hide emails

Originally posted to the ubuntu-irc mailing list on Tue Feb 28 20:07:05 UTC 2017 by C de-Avillez

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 500

By lyz | Published: 2017-02-28

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #500 for the week February 20 – 26, 2017, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Paul White
  • Chris Guiver
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Vishnu Narayanan
  • David Morfin
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License