Vacant Developer Membership Board seats: Call for nominations

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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