Help the Graner Family

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-10-29

As many of may of heard, Amber Graner, Ubuntu community member extraordinaire, and Peter Graner received horrible news this week while at UDS: their house caught on fire.

Thankfully their children and dog are fine!

Rikki Kite has started a fund to help out the Graner family.

In the spirit of community, please donate whatever you can.

Call for votes: Vacant Developer Membership Board seat

By nhandler | Published: 2010-10-20

The Developer Membership Board has started a vote to fill the vacant position.

The Developer Membership Board is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers. It evaluates prospective Ubuntu developers and decides when to entrust them with developer privileges.

The vote closes at Friday, 2010-11-05 23:59 UTC.

Ballots got mailed to all members of ~ubuntu-dev who have a public e-mail address stored in LP. Those ~ubuntu-dev members who don’t have a public e-mail address in LP (18 of 171 members) can contact me (Michael Bienia <geser@ubuntu.com>) to get added to the voters list and get a ballot too.

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Michael Bienia on Wed Oct 20 09:29:16 BST 2010

Emmet Hikory replaces Richard Johnson on Ubuntu Community Council

By pleia2 | Published: 2010-10-19

Due to a range of other commitments, Richard Johnson has stepped down from the Ubuntu Community Council.

The current members of the CC want to thank Richard Johnson for all the work he put into Ubuntu Governance. He will be missed. Everybody wishes him all the best on his next endeavors.

Emmet Hikory is replacing Richard Johnson, based on the outcome of the last Community Council vote.

Welcome aboard Emmet!

Originally posted on the ubuntu-news-team mailing list by Elizabeth Krumbach on Tue Oct 19 20:31:47 BST 2010

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 214

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-18

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #214 for the week October 11th, 2010 – October 16th, 2010 and is available in full here.

In this issue we cover:

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

  • Amber Graner
  • Liraz Siri
  • Alex Lourie
  • Jonathan Carter
  • Penelope Stowe
  • 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 IRCC Nominations

By nhandler | Published: 2010-10-18

I’m writing to you to let you all know that in November the terms of 2 of our IRCC members are coming to an end and the Community Council will be appointing or reappointing members for the 2 vacant positions.

The 2 IRCC members that are coming to the end of their terms are Pici (Benjamin Rubin)and jussi (Jussi Schultink).

The process for membership to the IRCC is described at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil

The relevant part of the document is below:

Appointment Process
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 Community Council will then finalise the appointment of new Council members.
  • In the future, the shortlist identified by the Community Council will be voted upon by team members as described at CommunityCouncil/Delegation. Part of the IRC Council’s role over the Lucid release cycle will be to identify a team of contributors to IRC which is appropriate to perform this vote.

As per this process, we are now asking for nominations for the Ubuntu IRC Council.

All nominations need to be sent directly to the IRC Council: Irc-council@lists.ubuntu.com

Nominees then need to follow the process as described above.

We look forward to seeing your nominations.

Originally sent to the ubuntu-irc Mailing List by Jussi Schultink on