Kubuntu Council Elections 2013 - Nominations Closed

[Ho Wan Chan]

Hello Kubuntu Council members, election candidates and fellow Kubuntu
members,

I seem to have some difficulty in considering who to vote for (or, since we
are having 4 candidates for 3 Kubuntu Council seats, who not to vote for),
since all 4 candidates are well-established members in Ubuntu, Kubuntu and
KDE communities. All 4 of them have been doing substantial tasks for
Kubuntu. And I'm the newest Kubuntu Member. That makes the voting rather,
erm, complicated.

I have some sort of an idea: Should we hold some "election forum"? It can
be either in IRC or Mumble. Each candidate introduces themselves, then gets
asked questions by other Kubuntu Members and Users. This, I think, makes
the election a more informed one.

I don't mind if you all disagree, but I might have to consider drawing lots
for voting :) I would like to invite all Kubuntu Members to consider this
idea.

Finally, a thank you to the 4 candidates who are running for this election,
and I sincerely hope you can be elected to become the leaders of Kubuntu.

Best wishes,
Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
Kubuntu Member

P.S. Please CC me in every mail you sent, I am only subscribed to the
Kubuntu Development Mailing List, not the Kubuntu Users Mailing List.
On 2013-5-2 上午10:11, "Scott Kitterman" <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:

> No additional nominees appeared after my second call and the nomination
> period
> has now closed.  The nominees I have recorded are:
>
> David Wonderly (Darkwing)
> Valorie Zimmerman (valorie)
> Philip Muskovac (yofel)
> Rohan Garg (shadeslayer)
>
> They are all eligible.  If somehow you thought you were nominated and you
> aren't on this list, contact me immediately.  Since there are four nominees
> for three seats, there will be an election.
>
> I will start working on ballot preparation tomorrow.  In order to be
> eligible
> to vote, you must be a current Kubuntu member and receive a ballot via
> CIVS.
> In order to receive a ballot, we need an email address.  If you have a
> public
> email address in your Launchpad profile, you need take no action.  I will
> collect them from there.  If you do not have one, you will not get a ballot
> unless you provide me with an email address.  You can contact me directly
> either via email or IRC.
>
> Assuming no foul-ups in preparation, ballots will go out on Saturday and
> voting will be open until the end (UTC) of May 20th.
>
> Best of luck to all the candidates and if you have anything more to
> communicate about your candidacy, now's the time ...
>
> Scott K
>
> On Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:44:30 AM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > As a reminder, nominations are still open, but less than a week  to go,
> so
> > if you've been holding back, now's the time.
> >
> > Scott K
> >
> > On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 04:11:07 PM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > The Kubuntu Council terms for David Wonderly, Harald Sitter, and
> Jonathan
> > > Thomas expire on 2013-05-20.  This is a call for nominations for the
> > > Kubuntu Council to elect three members.
> > >
> > > The term will be for two years,  2013-05-21 to  2015-05-20.
> > >
> > > As in the past, the election will be conducted using CIVS (Condorcet
> > > Internet Voting Service - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html ).
> > > The
> > > top three ranking vote recipients will be elected.
> > >
> > > Schedule:
> > >
> > > Nomination period: Now to 2013-05-01
> > > Ballot Preparation: 2013-05-01 to 2013-05-04
> > > Voting Period: 2013-05-04 to 2013-05-20
> > > End Poll/Results Announced: 2013-05-20
> > > New Term Begins: 2013-05-21
> > >
> > > Eligibility:
> > >
> > > All Kubuntu Members ( https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+members)
> > > are
> > > eligible to be nominated and to vote.  If you have a public email
> address
> > > in launchpad, you need take no further action to receive your voting
> > > ballot. If you do not have a public email address, please contact me
> > > offlist with the address you'd like your ballot sent to, otherwise you
> > > will be unable to vote.
> > >
> > > Nominations:
> > >
> > > All Kubuntu members are eligible.  The Kubuntu Council is intended to
> > > represent all of the Kubuntu community.  Applications from involved
> non-
> > > developers are encouraged.  If you are nominating someone else, please
> > > confirm their willingness to serve before nominating them.  Nominations
> > > should be done in public via either kubuntu-users or kubuntu-devel
> mailing
> > > lists.  If there is some extraordinary reason that precludes that,
> contact
> > > me directly.
> > >
> > > Commitment:
> > >
> > > The Kubuntu Council is the leadership body of Kubuntu.  Members of the
> > > council are expected to be active in Kubuntu.  The Kubuntu Council has
> > >
> > > three primary roles:
> > >  - Approve development plans for future Kubuntu releases
> > >  - Approve Kubuntu membership applications
> > >  - Resolve disputes within the Kubuntu project
> > >
> > > The time commitment is not large.  Meetings are generally only once
> every
> > > several months and conducted via IRC.
> > >
> > > Questions:
> > >
> > > If there are questions, you can contact me (preferably) via this
> mailing
> > > list or (if really necessary) via direct mail.
> > >
> > > Scott K
> > > For the Kubuntu Council
>
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