Lubuntu Council Elections 2025

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I’m pleased to announce the 2025 Lubuntu election cycle.

What is the Lubuntu Council?

The Lubuntu Council is the governing board for Lubuntu. Defined by our constitution, the Lubuntu Council reports directly to the Ubuntu Community Council, and is given the following responsibilities:

  • Mediate disputes within the community (as defined above) that cannot be resolved by themselves, or cannot be resolved peacefully.
  • Appoint team members to positions temporarily if a position being held becomes vacant, and until a new leader can be chosen.
  • Delegate administration of community groups to individuals which report directly to the Council. These delegated administrators should be the clear leaders of these groups already, to keep the spirit of democratic meritocracy.
  • Grant Lubuntu Membership to individuals within the Lubuntu project who have made significant and sustained contributions.

How do I apply?

You must be an official member of the Lubuntu project. Please create a reply to this Discourse post with your platform. This may/could include:

  • Why do you want to be a member of the Lubuntu Council?
  • What value do you see in the Lubuntu project, and where do you see it going from here?
  • If you could wave a magic wand, what would you change about the Lubuntu project?

This election is incredibly important, for a variety of public and private reasons. If you are seriously considering running for the Lubuntu Council and would like to know the private reasons this election is important, please contact Thomas Ward directly.

Publicly, the Lubuntu Council’s primary goal is to keep the gears moving in Lubuntu, and ensure our contributors feel valued. As explicitly written in the Lubuntu Constitution:

It is the duty of the Council to ensure the health of the community.

That is most of what this work entails.

Timeline

2025-06-04 (time of posting) to 2025-06-18 (00:00 UTC): Nomination period
2025-06-18 (00:00 UTC) to 2025-06-20 (00:00 UTC): The Lubuntu Council will compile the nominations into a CIVS poll and make it available to Lubuntu Members.
2025-06-21 (00:00 UTC) to 2025-06-28 (00:00 UTC): Voting period
2025-06-30: Expiration date for current members, new members will expire on 2026-06-30.

Questions?

Please contact the Lubuntu Council directly.

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My name is Thomas Ward, and I am nominating myself for re-election as a member of the Lubuntu Council.

A lot of times you don’t see me ‘doing much’ in the forefront of the Lubuntu side of things, but since 2021 when I was elected, I’ve been the Lubuntu Team Lead, handling a lot of the executive operations and financial operations side of things. To that end, my primary role has been to be the “on paper” contact for the Lubuntu Association who cuts checks for the infrastructure payments (full disclosure, Lubuntu Association since before my election in 2021 has paid my consulting LLC to operate as an MSP to operate the bulk of the Lubuntu infrastructure - git, our discourse before we made it here, development sandbox systems, etc.), represent Lubuntu and its Council on legal operations and proceedings, etc.

As Team Lead, I also reserve the “Big Red Button” to veto lower teams in the Lubuntu side of things or make executive decisions when other teams’ members (such as Release Managers, etc.) are otherwise unavailable. I know the various teams are all more than capable (Development, Documentation / Manual writing, community management, etc.) and therefore I usually don’t have to do that much in the foreground for Lubuntu, though my name shows up as a council member. However, I rely heavily on delegating powers and permissions to the various groups and teams that are part of Lubuntu and led by other members of the Council so that the “team lead” doesn’t have to take on every role and action.

If reelected I will continue to be the Team Lead, and continue to keep Lubuntu solvent and operational, and make sure the teams are doing what they do currently. As I said, my name shows up regularly within Lubuntu, but the vast majority of the day-to-day work is done by the subteams.

Within Ubuntu, I have a number of hats:

  • Community Council Member
  • Technical Board Member
  • Ubuntu Developer Membership Board Member
  • Ubuntu Core Developer (basically full upload privs)
  • Ubuntu Backporters Member (we handle the -backports pockets!)
  • Community-contributor to the Server Team

Outside of Ubuntu I also do the following:

  • Debian Maintainer for several packages
  • Member of the Debian Python Team (working on code there!)
  • Member of the Debian Privacy Team (helping maintain bits of Tor stuff!)

The vast majority of these roles do not have heavy workloads, thus I can continue to contribute to Ubuntu and Lubuntu actively.

Outside of the hats and roles I have in Ubuntu and Debian though, I am a Python programmer, a computer networking expert, and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in the cyber-security industry with a particular care on network security though I also provide security guidance on some decisions within Lubuntu.

I hope that everyone will be understanding with my desire to continue to support Lubuntu, and even if I am not on the Council, the Lubuntu infrastructure isn’t going away any time soon.

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I would like to nominate myself for Lubuntu Council.

I’ve been a Lubuntu Member since August 2022, and a Lubuntu Developer since December 2022. Since then I’ve also ended up a MOTU, and also am helping out on the Lubuntu Council, Ubuntu Communications Council, and Ubuntu Community council. I’m currently operating as Lubuntu Release Manager. Most of my contribution to Lubuntu are helping maintain things, pre-release testing, and voting on decisions when necessary.

My time is relatively limited nowadays, so I don’t have much to elaborate on with what I will do if I am re-elected. Either way, I intend on continuing to do what I’m doing now (minus the voting bit if I’m not re-elected, obviously).

Hope you all are doing well! :slight_smile:

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Hello, I would like to nominate myself for Lubuntu Council.

I am running for re-election to the Lubuntu Council. I have used Lubuntu intermittently since the days of the LXDE desktop, but when I learned about the transition to LXQt, I began actively contributing support during this change and have continued to do so to this day.

My main role is to support non-English-speaking communities. Most of the time, I work behind the scenes, dedicating myself to translating LXQt into Galician, Spanish, and Basque.

My goal is to strengthen the ties between the different flavors and communities of Lubuntu.

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