I posted this on my blog. Am reposting here to reach as many people as possible.
The UK Ubuntu LoCo team has for some years now had a vote to choose a new leader when the incumbent steps down. Well it’s that time of year again as Dave Walker stepped down in an announcement to the Ubuntu UK LoCo mailing list recently. Since Dave stepped down we’ve been looking for a new Team Lead, but I don’t think we’ve really promoted it enough, which might be one reason why we’ve currently got only one candidate for the vote. I’d like to ask members of the UK LoCo team to consider helping us out by standing for the post of Team Leader. The role is not an onerous one, but it does need someone committed, who is willing to help guide the team over the next year or so. The person selected will be a point of contact with Canonical and other internal groups within the project, and with external organisations too. There isn’t a tremendous workload, but the person should be on hand to deal with requests in a timely fashion. Traditionally we’ve allowed the outgoing team leader to choose the method by which the next leader is chosen. This has been in place since Nik Butler stepped down as leader back in 2007 and I got voted in. At the time we used the somewhat inadequate poll system in launchpad to figure out the winner. Since then the Ubuntu community has moved towards condorcet voting, which is both fun, reliable and very geeky :) Every LoCo is different though, with their own ways of selecting a new leader, point of contact or council and that’s often determined by cultural traditions. As a rule the Ubuntu project doesn’t impose leadership election processes on LoCo teams, so each is free to select their own process. So if you’re in the UK, and you’re interested in leading the team then add yourself to this page on the wiki:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/2011Election Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
