<div dir="ltr">grats </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Philip Muskovac <<a href="mailto:yofel@gmx.net" target="_blank">yofel@gmx.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi folks, The nomination period for the new council members ended yesterday, with these nominations: - Aaron Honeycutt - Clay Weber - Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan as that matches the number of open seats, there will be no voting, so everyone please welcome our 3 new council members. As previously announced, the membership of the other council members will be adjusted to end one year from now, and the new members will start a regular 2 year term. Philip Muskovac Kubuntu Council On Thursday 03 September 2015 22:58:08 Philip Muskovac wrote: > Dear community, > > as another Kubuntu Council member decided to step down from his position > today, the council is down to 3 people which is the minimum required amount > of members to make any decisions. > > With this, we immediately need to elect 3 new kubuntu council members to > keep the council functional. If this will not be possibly for whatever > reason, the council will be disbanded, at which point we will inform you of > the further proceedings. > > As this is an out-of-schedule election and the terms of the remaining > council members don't match, the election will proceed as follows: > > The remaining members of the Kubuntu Council are: > - Philip Muskovac > - Valorie Zimmermann > - Myriam Schweingruber > their council membership will be set to expire one year after the voting > period is over. > > The new council members will start a regular 2 year term. > > 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" rel="noreferrer" 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 2015-09-09 > Ballot Preparation: 2015-09-09 2015-09-10 > Voting Period: 2015-09-10 to 2015-09-17 > End Poll/Results Announced: 2015-09-18 > New Term Begins: 2015-09-18 > > Eligibility: > All Kubuntu Members ( <a href="https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+members" rel="noreferrer" 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. I can also be found on > Freenode IRC in #kubuntu or #kubuntu-devel, nickname: yofel > > Philip Muskovac > Kubuntu Council -- kubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </div>