Tag Archives: Membership Boards

Renewed call for 12:00 UTC Membership Board Nominees

At the end of April we called for nominations to the Membership Board, this board oversees the addition of people to Ubuntu Members, needless to say we, and we would hope you, believe this to be an important part of the Ubuntu Community. Since then the Membership Board has received some nominations, however, up to […]

Final schedule for the Membership Board meetings

We now have the full schedule for the Membership Board meetings. The 12:00 UTC one will be on Wednesdays, and the 22:00 keeps on being on Thursdays. The meetings alternate weekly, so that we will have board meetings on the first four weeks of a month: 1st Thrusday of the month: 22:00 UTC 2nd Wednesday […]

New dates for the Ubuntu Membership Boards meetings — the 22:00 meeting

We now have a partial schedule for the Ubuntu Membership Boards meetings. To make life easier to all, we decided to move from regional (Americas, EMEA, Asia/Oceania) board meetings to a time-based schedule. We have already decided on Thursdays for the 22:00 UTC, on the first and third weeks of the month: 1st Thursday of […]

New Membership Board Members

Last month we put out a call to the community to restaff the Ubuntu Membership Boards and announced a change from region-based applications to time-based boards, see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-April/001548.html Thanks to all the great candidates we had for the restaffing! It’s never easy to select from great lists and candidates, but we do have limited spots […]

Membership Boards: Restaffing and Reorganization

On May 5th we will have a large number of Regional Membership Board members with terms expiring. The Community Council decided to take this opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of these regional membership boards and how it make sense to go about restaffing them. After several discussions, including those with sitting board members, we have […]