Application Review Board restaffing results

Hello everyone,

The Application Review Board has been seeking new members for the past month and closed the nomination period on the 14th of January.

Only a single nominee, Jonathan Carter, came out of this for the 3 seats that were available on the board.

The usual procedure is for the Technical Board to setup a CIVS poll for such restaffing, though in this particular case, we do not feel it’d serve any real purpose and so decided to simply confirm Jonathan’s membership on the Application Review Board.

Please join me on welcoming Jonathan back on the ARB!

PS: Note that the ARB is still understaffed by 2 members so if anyone would like to join, please get in touch with them.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel mailing list on Fri Jan 18 15:40:12 UTC 2013 by Stéphane Graber

Vacant Developer Membership Board seat: Call for nominations

We will soon have four vacant Developer Membership Board seats. Benjamin Drung, Stéphane Graber, Iain Lane and Cody Somerville will reach the end of their terms on 2013-02-13. This mail is a call for nominations.

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 member will be 2 years. Providing at least five nominations are received, voting will commence on Monday 28th January 2013 and will last for 2 weeks, ending on Monday 11th February
2012. The DMB will confirm the appointments in its next meeting thereafter.

Please send nominations to developer-membership-board at lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by DMB members) by midnight UTC on 28 January 2013.

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 nominating so that others get a better idea of who they are voting for.

If you include a link to this 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 Jan 15 18:05:45 UTC 2013 by Iain Lane

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 299

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #299 for the week January 7 – 13, 2013, 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
  • Leon Marincowitz
  • Matt Rudge
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 298

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #298 , 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 Benčić
  • Nathan Dyer
  • 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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Call for Instructors: Ubuntu User Days on Feb 9th – 10th 2013

We’ll be hosting our next Ubuntu User Days on Saturday February 9th, 14:30 UTC – Sunday the 10th 2013, 3:00 UTC.

UUDFeb2013v2

“User Days was created to be a set of courses offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics to get them started with Ubuntu”

In order for this event to be a success, we need instructors to lead sessions.

To volunteer to lead a session, you can contact a member of the Ubuntu User Days Team by sending an email to myself (lyz at ubuntu.com), the ubuntu-classroom at lists.ubuntu.com mailing list or by contacting us on IRC by stopping by #ubuntu-classroom-backstage on irc.freenode.net.

If you are unsure of a topic for your session, you can visit the Course Suggestions page:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam/CourseSuggestions

If you are unsure about expectations for class instructors, please ask! You may also visit the logs from past Ubuntu User Days:

Please be sure to pass this announcement along to any of your friends who might be interested in leading a session.

Thanks everyone!

Originally posted here on Thu Jan 4 15:55 UTC 2013 by Elizabeth Krumbach