Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board restaffing

2024-06-06 Thread Robie Basak
Reminder: nominations to stand for the Developer Membership Board close on Tuesday 11 June. If you're a core dev or MOTU, please consider if you can help. Please also encourage anyone you think is qualified and would be good at it to accept a nomination! Sometimes the most suitable people don't

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-05-24 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 01:45:54PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > Four members - Łukasz Zemczak, Thomas Ward, Dan Streetman and Robie > Basak - have completed their two year terms on the DMB. Dan has resigned > his seat, and the other three are continuing on a temporary extension to > help the DMB

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 02:43:40AM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 10:37:07AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote: > > In any case, all this formality really is exhausting and I don't care > > to pursue it, since you seem to be saying that I can't call for a DMB > I've been having this

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-11 Thread Thomas Ward
On 3/9/22 09:18, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Hey Robie and DMB members, Le 01/03/2022 à 16:51, Robie Basak a écrit : Candidates must expect to be able to attend the majority of DMB meetings. Currently these take place on IRC, are scheduled on alternate Mondays with each meeting alternating

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-09 Thread Dan Streetman
On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:19 AM Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Hey Robie and DMB members, > > Le 01/03/2022 à 16:51, Robie Basak a écrit : > > Candidates must expect to be able to attend the majority of DMB > > meetings. Currently these take place on IRC, are scheduled on alternate > > Mondays with

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-09 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey Robie and DMB members, Le 01/03/2022 à 16:51, Robie Basak a écrit : Candidates must expect to be able to attend the majority of DMB meetings. Currently these take place on IRC, are scheduled on alternate Mondays with each meeting alternating between 1600 UTC and 1900 UTC, and last around an

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-09 Thread Dan Streetman
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 9:44 PM Seth Arnold wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 10:37:07AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote: > > In any case, all this formality really is exhausting and I don't care > > to pursue it, since you seem to be saying that I can't call for a DMB > > I've been having this

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Seth Arnold
On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 02:43:40AM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > I've been having this thought a lot the last few years. My response here should in no way be read as suggesting Robie is personally contributing to an excess of bureaucracy in Ubuntu. To the contrary, I've always appreciated that

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Seth Arnold
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 10:37:07AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote: > In any case, all this formality really is exhausting and I don't care > to pursue it, since you seem to be saying that I can't call for a DMB I've been having this thought a lot the last few years. A lot of the Ubuntu structures

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Dan Streetman
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 9:20 AM Robie Basak wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:56:23AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote: > > I would like to officially call for a DMB vote on extending DMB > > eligibility to members of the ~ubuntu-sru-developers team. > > Previous discussion and decision here: >

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:56:23AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote: > I would like to officially call for a DMB vote on extending DMB > eligibility to members of the ~ubuntu-sru-developers team. Previous discussion and decision here:

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Dan Streetman
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 8:52 AM Robie Basak wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 03:51:22PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > > Three members - Simon Quigley, Eric Desrochers and Rafael David Tinoco - > > have recently vacated their seats on the DMB. Subsequently, this email > > is a call for nominations

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2022-03-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 03:51:22PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > Three members - Simon Quigley, Eric Desrochers and Rafael David Tinoco - > have recently vacated their seats on the DMB. Subsequently, this email > is a call for nominations to fill their vacated seats. We don't yet have enough

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-09 Thread Dan Streetman
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 8:26 PM Seth Arnold wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:21:10AM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > P.S. Just an opinion and entirely up to you, the alternating meeting time > > is hard to plan for everyone. > > I haven't kept close track of the meetings but my

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-09 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 8:33 PM Robie Basak wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 11:38:19PM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > > Can we replace the meeting with something else entirely, something that > > fits better into the schedules of distributed, busy, people? > > Absolutely. The DMB can change how

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 11:38:19PM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > Can we replace the meeting with something else entirely, something that > fits better into the schedules of distributed, busy, people? Absolutely. The DMB can change how they process applications as they wish. There has been talk

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-08 Thread Seth Arnold
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:21:10AM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > P.S. Just an opinion and entirely up to you, the alternating meeting time > is hard to plan for everyone. I haven't kept close track of the meetings but my impression is that most of them end with "well, there's no quorum,

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-07 Thread Iain Lane
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 08:37:13AM +, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > I think public nominations might be more nerve-wracking for good > candidates than inspiring. Back when I was one of the people running DMB elections I did think about this and ended up considering that having public nominations

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I think public nominations might be more nerve-wracking for good candidates than inspiring. My sense is that we would benefit from more pro-active identification of people who 'do things the right way', and reach out to them directly. Often, good people don't think of themselves as leaders, they

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-07 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:24 AM Eric Desrochers < eric.desroch...@canonical.com> wrote: > Since we have not yet enough nominations and it was the same situation at > last election 2 years ago, I started to think about what can be changed in > our approach. > > One thing that comes to my mind is

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-06 Thread Eric Desrochers
Since we have not yet enough nominations and it was the same situation at last election 2 years ago, I started to think about what can be changed in our approach. One thing that comes to my mind is what if the nomination were public ? Right now it is private and only visible to the DMB team. It

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

2020-02-04 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 01:32:35PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > The membership terms for two members (Jeremy Bicha and Mathieu > Trudel-Lapierre) have expired, and the terms of the remaining members > (Eric Desrochers, Micah Gersten, Robie Basak, Simon Quigley and Łukasz > Zemczak) expire in May.