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. <div class="gmail_quote">On 2013-5-2 上午10:11, "Scott Kitterman" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@kitterman.com" target="_blank">ubuntu@kitterman.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 <a href="tel:2013-05-20" value="+85220130520" target="_blank">2013-05-20</a>. This is a call for nominations for the > > Kubuntu Council to elect three members. > > > > The term will be for two years, <a href="tel:2013-05-21" value="+85220130521" target="_blank">2013-05-21</a> to <a href="tel:2015-05-20" value="+85220150520" target="_blank">2015-05-20</a>. > > > > As in the past, the election will be conducted using CIVS (Condorcet > > Internet Voting Service - <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html" target="_blank">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html</a> ). > > The > > top three ranking vote recipients will be elected. > > > > Schedule: > > > > Nomination period: Now to <a href="tel:2013-05-01" value="+85220130501" target="_blank">2013-05-01</a> > > Ballot Preparation: <a href="tel:2013-05-01" value="+85220130501" target="_blank">2013-05-01</a> to <a href="tel:2013-05-04" value="+85220130504" target="_blank">2013-05-04</a> > > Voting Period: <a href="tel:2013-05-04" value="+85220130504" target="_blank">2013-05-04</a> to <a href="tel:2013-05-20" value="+85220130520" target="_blank">2013-05-20</a> > > End Poll/Results Announced: <a href="tel:2013-05-20" value="+85220130520" target="_blank">2013-05-20</a> > > New Term Begins: <a href="tel:2013-05-21" value="+85220130521" target="_blank">2013-05-21</a> > > > > Eligibility: > > > > All Kubuntu Members ( <a href="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+members" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+members</a> ) > > 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 -- kubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>