Vacant Developer Membership Board seats: Second call for nominations
Hello, We have received insufficient nominations to fill all of the vacant seats. The deadline for nominations is therefore being extended by *two weeks*. This makes the timescale as follows: - Nominations should be received by: February 24, 2014 00:00 UTC - Election (if any) starts: Febuary 24, 2014 - Election (if any) concludes: March 10 2014: ~12:00 UTC - New members confirmed on: March 10 2014, with terms beginning March 11, 2014 Please consider nominating yourself if you feel you have the time and skill to serve on this important body. Regards, On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 04:21:22PM +, Iain Lane wrote: > Hi, > > We will soon have three vacant Developer Membership Board seats. Barry > Warsaw, Micah Gersten and Stefano Rivera will reach the end of their > terms on 2014-02-25. 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 > four valid nominations are received, voting will commence on Monday > 10th February 2014 and will last for 14 days, ending on Monday 24th > February 2014. The DMB will confirm the appointments in its next meeting > thereafter. > > Please send PGP-signed nominations to > developer-membership-bo...@lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing > list accessible only by DMB members) by midnight UTC on Monday 10th > February 2014. > > 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 nominated > 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. -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Expansion of Valve free games offer to Ubuntu developers
Hi all, As I'm sure most will be aware, for the last couple of weeks, Valve have offered access to all Valve produced games free of charge to Debian Developers [0]. As of today, they have kindly extended this to all registered Ubuntu Developers [1]. Collabora is administering the distribution of keys so to request your key, please email Jo Shields with a PGP signed email requesting it. If you don't hear back in a couple of days or so, you can then email me directly as I'll provide cover for Jo when he's not on holiday. Happy gaming! Neil [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/01/msg6.html [1] Essentially defined as everyone who's entitled to upload directly to the Ubuntu primary archive, even if only to a restricted set of packages signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Developer Membership Board minutes - 2014-01-27
== 2014-01-27 == * Chair: Stefano Rivera * Present: Micah Gersten * Apologies and avance votes received from: Barry Warsaw, Iain Lane, and Stéphane Graber * Log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-01-27-19.09.html === Review Previous Action Items === * micahg to restructure PPU teams: Teams are restructured, but docs cleanup remains. === Tim Lunn for Ubuntu Gnome Packageset === * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimLunn/PPUApplication * Approved with 5 votes for, 0 votes against and 0 abstentions. === Tim Lunn for MOTU === * Deferred with 2 votes for, 0 votes against and 3 abstentions. * We welcome Tim to re-apply for MOTU in a few months, after contributing more widely to the archive. We believe the Ubuntu Gnome packageset and desktop-extra packageset should provide the upload rights currently required. === Tim Lunn for desktop-extra packageset === * Approved with 4 votes for, 0 votes against, and 0 abstentions. === e-Mail application status === * William Grant: Has a sufficient number of votes, awaiting votes from Scott, and Benjamin. * This has been finalized since the meeting occurred. * Daniel Pocock: Awaiting votes from Benjamin, Barry, Micah, Scott, Stéphane, and Stefano. * This has been finalized since the meeting occurred. * Jackson Doak: We need to call for votes. === Any other business === * Chair for the next meeting will be ScottK. * Restaffing: Initiate an election immediately. SR -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ H: +27 21 461 1230 C: +27 72 419 8559 signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
