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style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The reason why I am here is to provide dedicated leadership to the community team at Canonical, and to support the Ubuntu Community to be successful. I’ve put myself on a mission to reignite the broader Ubuntu community, refocusing and improving on the initiative that Ken announced last year. Part of that is making sure the various boards and councils have what they need, and taking more of an outside-in view on community.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Ubuntu,sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m aware the board is mostly staff driven at the moment, and I’ve read various information from the wiki. I’d love to figure out if that information is still up to date, better understand how you are making decisions and how that interacts with the work our internal teams are doing. Furthermore I’m interested in if/how the community is involved in decision making, and what the prospects are of a community member becoming part of the technical board.</span></p>
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