Ubuntu Community Council 2017 election under way!

** *The UbuntuCommunity Council election has begun and ballots sent out to allUbuntu Members . Voting closes September 27th at end of day UTC.* * The following candidates are standing for 7 seats on the counci

2009 Community Council vote complete

Thanks to all Ubuntu members who participated in the CC ballot, which was completed today. The new community council takes office immediately, and (in alphabetical order) comprises: Alan Pope Benjamin Mako Hill Daniel Holbach Elizabeth Krumbach Matthew East Mike Basinger Richard Joh

TechBoard 2009

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Tech Board election, which came to a result last night. We had 84 votes from 130 eligible voters. The new Tech Board in reverse alphabetical surname order is: * Matt Zimmerman * Mark Shuttleworth * Scott James Remnant * Martin Pitt

Introducing the Karmic Koala, our mascot for Ubuntu 9.10

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the *Karmic Koala*, the newest member of our alliterative menagerie. When you are looking for inspiration beyond the looming Jaunty feature freeze, I hope you'll think of the Koala, our official mascot for Ubuntu 9.10. And if you'll bear with me for a mi

Run-off ballot for Tech Board place, from today till 20 Jan 2009 09:00 UTC

There is now a ballot of Ubuntu developers, to select a new member of the Technical Board: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/+poll/2009-01-tb-nominees/+vote-simple The candidates in alphabetical order are Colin Watson and Kees Cook. In a departure from tradition, we will have a race between

Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope

As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it's time to create space for future plans, and so I'm writing to introduce you to The Jaunty Jackalope. Jaunty, the code name for what will most likely become Ubuntu 9.04, will be the focus of our efforts from November through to April next year. We will

Planning for Ubuntu 8.10ish - The Intrepid Ibex

With Hardy now past feature-freeze it's time to start to plan features that are being lined up for inclusion after Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is released in April. And so I'd like to introduce you to the Intrepid Ibex, the release which is planned for October 2008, and which is likely to have the version num

Gobuntu-devel mailing list created

Hi folks Colin Watson and Evan Dandrea have been working to get Gobuntu off the ground. We now have daily CD image builds available for Gobuntu, and have started a new mailing list for discussions specific to Gobuntu development: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Gobuntu-devel Here are

List of vendors with good free software track record

Hi folks We'd like to beef up the Restricted Driver Manager with additional information about vendors who have an excellent track record for working with the free software community. There is a page on the Ubuntu wiki which serves as a template for the text which will be on Ubuntu.com for the Guts

Community Council nominations and confirmation polls

Members of the Ubuntu community, We have 5 nominations to expand the community council, and voting starts today. Each candidate is standing individually, so there are 5 separate votes. If a majority of the voters approve that candidate, then (s)he will be confirmed as a new member of the CC with

Introducing the Gutsy Gibbon

Folks, allow me to introduce the Gutsy Gibbon, who will be succeeding the Feisty Fawn as the focus of our development love in a few short weeks, for release in October 2007. The Gibbon won the G-race to be our engineering mascot for this next release, but it was a close run. We very much wanted to