Hello developers, This is the second call for nominations for the upcoming DMB elections. The original mail is full quoted below.
We currently do *not* have sufficient nominations to fill all vacant posts. Please consider nominating yourself if you would be willing to serve on the board. Regards, Dimitri. On 1 February 2016 at 15:31, Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I regret to inform you that Iain Lane has expressed his wish to resign > from the Developer Membership Board, after more than five years of > service. The board and the Ubuntu developer community would like to > thank Laney for all the hard work he has put into the Developer > Membership Board. We are especially grateful for the pleora of > applicants he has mentored and sponsored uploads for. He was last > re-elected a year ago, however, he is cutting his tenure short and has > requested for his seat to be including in the upcoming election. A > formal resignation letter was posted to the Technical Board mailing > list. > > In response to Iain's move, the remaining original Board member > Stéphane Graber is also cutting his term short and vacates his seat > for the upcoming election. We would like to thank Stéphane Graber for > the long 6 years of service on the board! > > In addition to above, we will soon have three vacant Developer > Membership Board seats as per regular term expiration. Brian Murray, > Micah Gersten, and Dimitri John Ledkov will reach the end of their > terms on 2016-03-09. > > This telegraphic message 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 members 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 > six valid nominations are received, voting will commence on Monday > 15th February 2016 and will last for 14 days, ending on Monday 29th > February 2016. The DMB will confirm the appointments in its next > meeting thereafter. > > Please send GPG-signed nominations to developer-membership-board at > lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by > DMB members) by midnight UTC on Monday 15th February 2016. > > 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. > > Regards, > > Dimitri. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce