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Ubuntu IRC Council Position

pleia2 — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:56:55 +0000

There is currently an empty virtual seat on the IRC Council and we are now accepting nominations to fill it. If you are an Ubuntu Member with a competent technical knowledge of IRC, a passion for IRC and a willingness to help maintain effective governance of our IRC community then you could be the leader we are looking for.

The Process

You can read about the Charter and Appointment Process for the IRC Council here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil It starts with an open call for nominations (you are reading it now), applicants will make themselves known to the IRCC via an email to irc-council at lists.ubuntu.com and will fill out a wiki page outlining their work in the community and why they would be a good candidate.

The current IRCC will administer this process and at the end of the nomination period will provide a full list of applicants to the Community Council along with any feedback and comments for the CC to review.

The Community Council will set up a vote for the Ubuntu IRC Members to vote on qualified candidates

The Community Council will then finalise the appointment, which will be for a term of about 18 months, expiring concurrently with the sitting IRCC.

Timescales

Nominations are open now, until the end of May (midnight UTC to be precise, but don’t wait until then). There will be a short gap while feedback is considered and the vote is set up, then the vote will be open for 2 weeks.

Voting Details

Voting will be done by the Ubuntu IRC Members group using the Condorcet Internet Voting Service at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html and we will be using the Schulze method for completion. The voting group is made up of people who have been awarded Ubuntu Membership and consider themselves stakeholders in our IRC system, if you think you should be in that group and are not then you do have time to apply for membership if you have made a significant and sustained contribution to the Ubuntu Project. If you are already an Ubuntu Member but not in that group then please contact a member of the IRCC to be added.

If you have any questions about the process, or the IRCC and what we do, then please find us on IRC.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-irc mailing list by Alan Bell on Thu May 17 21:45:13 UTC 2012

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 265

pleia2 — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:50:44 +0000

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #265 for the week May 7 – 13, 2012, 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 Krumbach
Jasna Bencic
Chris Druif
D. Can Celasun
mikewhatever
Matt Rudge
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

EA Games and Ubuntu

akgraner — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:29:11 +0000

Electronic Arts are delivering two games into Ubuntu, Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances and Lord of Ultima. They are currently available in the Ubuntu Software Center.

While some may focus on the fact that these are loading web apps, the really exciting opportunity here is that EA have identified Ubuntu as an exciting channel to deliver their content. I would like to encourage our community to welcome EA to Ubuntu, and download and enjoy the games.

Let’s not get side-tracked by the fact that these are web games and not native to Ubuntu: EA are dipping their toes in Ubuntu as a channel of opportunity, and let’s welcome them with open arms.

Originally posted by on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by Jono Bacon here.