Re: Team Appointment Process - Poll

2010-06-10 Thread Andre Mangan
All these polls, whether they are for governance structures or IRC meeting times are totally valueless unless the main body of Ubuntu users in Australia come out of their hiding places and declare their wishes. The current poll on governance registers the opinions of 18 Ubuntu users. Hardly a

Re: Team Appointment Process - Poll

2010-06-10 Thread Dale
On 10 June 2010 09:02, andrew gande...@gmail.com wrote: I have created a poll on the appointment process for team positions. http://www.doodle.com/pn7hyxe77wwr8bka HOW TO VOTE CARD Meritocracy - Keep the current process. Democracy - Everybody has a say in who is appointed to the

Re: Local Ubuntu conference [Was: Metrocracy vs democracy]

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Sobey
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 12:26 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Paul Gear Sounds like we in the Brisbane team need to get cracking... :-) Another nice bonus when it comes to holding an event ahead of linux.conf.au: there are usually quite a few Canonical folk from overseas speaking or

Re: Team Appointment Process - Poll

2010-06-10 Thread bwright
How long do we want to hold up decisions. Are we just going to sit here complaining about a voting system into the next year and have 0% productivity or are we going to do something. I have noticed the active participants are voting and the active members are the ones that get the choice. If you

Fwd: about bouncing

2010-06-10 Thread Jared Norris
-- Forwarded message -- From: Victor Vahe Kevorkian vivakev...@gmail.com Date: 10 June 2010 07:48 Subject: about bouncing To: ubuntu-au-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com Why is it that my requests are bouncing back to me and being ignored? I have no other way to ask for help. During the

Re: Local Ubuntu conference [Was: Metrocracy vs democracy]

2010-06-10 Thread bwright
Why do people find structure so critical to a community. We are a group of people interested in Ubuntu and the progression of Ubuntu in Australia. Do we need to hold conferences with minutes and boards? None of this is at all binding so how can you expect anyone who does not get their voted leader

Blogs

2010-06-10 Thread bwright
Slightly off topic but who has blogs that are techie or have technical feeds? It would be interesting to see since I am addicted to information and I would like to grab tech news and tech adventures from this community. My blog is at http://bwright.uberwolf.com/feeds/programming/ and

Re: about bouncing

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Martin
Victor. I can help you out with problem (1) - I suspect it will also solve all the others also You have been using teh SUN version of virtualbox, not the one from the Ubuntu repository. Virtualbox is now an Oracle product, as such they have changed their key If you run : wget -q

Re: Fwd: about bouncing

2010-06-10 Thread Mitch Towner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/10 21:10, Jared Norris wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Victor Vahe Kevorkian vivakev...@gmail.com Date: 10 June 2010 07:48 Subject: about bouncing To: ubuntu-au-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com Why is it that my

Re: Team Appointment Process - Poll

2010-06-10 Thread Ubuntu Lists
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:08:26 -0700 (PDT) bwright bwright...@gmail.com wrote: How long do we want to hold up decisions. Are we just going to sit here complaining about a voting system into the next year and have 0% productivity isn't that the standard outcome of the democratic process?