The terms of three seats on the Development Membership Board have recently expired and are being temporarily extended by the Technical Board. The terms of the remaining four seats expire on 16 June. This is a call for nominations to fill all seven seats.
The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers. Candidates must be Ubuntu Core Developers or MOTU, 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.
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 hour. Meeting times can be negotiated and adjusted by board members as needed.
The new members shall be chosen using Condorcet voting. Members of the ubuntu-dev team in Launchpad are eligible to vote. To ensure that you receive a ballot in the initial mail, please ensure that a visible email address exists on your Launchpad profile (although there shall be an opportunity to receive a ballot after the vote has started if you do not wish to do this).
The terms of the three highest ranked new board members shall be approximately two years. To rebalance the team such that the entire board does not change at once, the Technical Board have approved an exception such that the further four elected board members shall have terms of approximately one year.
Providing at least seven valid nominations are received, voting shall commence on Wednesday 19 June and shall last for approximately seven days, ending on or around Wednesday 26 June.
Please send nominations to developer-membership-board at lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by DMB members) by the end (in UTC) of Tuesday 11 June.
If nominating a developer other than yourself, please confirm that the nominee is happy to sit on the board before emailing the DMB.
If nominated, please consider writing a short statement on your wiki page so that others get a better idea of for whom they are voting. If you include a link to your statement in your nomination mail or in a followup, it shall be shared when the candidates are announced.
This call for nominations is being sent to a moderated announcement mailing list. For discussion, Ubuntu developers should use ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com.
On behalf of the Technical Board,
Robie