Ubuntu IRCC Nominations 2016

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2016-01-15

The current IRC council has 3 members whose 2 year terms are ending. This means it is now election season.

Details about the IRC Council and its charter may be viewed here. Council members normally serve a two year term, and may stand for multiple terms.

From the wiki page the election process is as follows:

Elections of new IRC Council members will be held in the following way:

  • An open call for nominations should be announced in the IRC Community, and people can nominate themselves for a seat on the council. Everyone is welcome to apply.
  • To apply for a seat the candidate creates 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 publically 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.

As you may have guessed, this is our call for nominations. Please feel free to nominate yourself, and remember to talk to others who you intend to nominate first.

All Ubuntu Members are welcome to apply. If you’re not a member but believe you meet the criteria to be one, then visit the Membership page and learn how to make it happen. IRC contributions are highly regarded in the search for IRC Council members, but are not essential.

To nominate yourself, create a wiki page for yourself and announce it and your candidacy on the IRC team mailing list. Nominations will be open through to 14 February, 2016, when a full list of applicants will be forwarded to the Community Council for checking. If there are more qualified applicants than positions, a vote will be announced to take place at the end of February.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-irc mailing list on Fri Jan 15 08:17:28 UTC 2016 by Melissa Draper on behalf of the Ubuntu IRC Council

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) reaches End of Life on February 4 2016

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-14

Ubuntu announced its 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) release almost 9 months ago, on April 23, 2015. As a non-LTS release, 15.04 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.04 will reach end of life on Thursday, February 4th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 15.04.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 15.04 is via Ubuntu 15.10. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WilyUpgrades

Ubuntu 15.10 continues to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. Announcements of security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Thu Jan 14 00:37:14 UTC 2016 by Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 449

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-11

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #449 for the week January 4 – 10, 2016, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Simon Quigley
  • Chris Guiver
  • Paul White
  • Walter Lapchynski
  • 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

Call for nominations for the Technical Board

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-06

The current 2-year term of the Technical Board is over, and it’s time for electing a new one. For the next two weeks (until January 19) we are collecting nominations, then our SABDFL will shortlist the candidates and confirm their candidacy with them, and finally the shortlist will be put to a vote by ~ubuntu-dev.

Anyone from the Ubuntu community can nominate someone.

Please send nominations (of yourself or someone else) to Mark Shuttleworth <mark.shuttleworth at ubuntu.com> and CC: the nominee. You can optionally CC: the Technical Board mailing list, but as this is public, you *must* get the agreement of the nominated person before you CC: the list.

The current board can be seen at https://launchpad.net/~techboard/+members

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list on Tue Jan 5 17:56:28 UTC 2016 by Martin Pitt on behalf of the Ubuntu Technical Board

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 448

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-05

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #448 for the weeks of December 21, 2015 – January 3, 2016, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Paul White
  • Walter Lapchynski
  • Simon Quigley
  • 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