Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board restaffing

[Robie Basak]

The terms of three seats on the Development Membership Board have
recently expired and are being temporarily extended by the Technical
Board. The terms of the remaining four seats expire on 16 June. This is
a call for nominations to fill all seven seats.

The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers
[1]. Candidates must be Ubuntu Core Developers or MOTU[2], and should be
well qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu developers and decide when
to entrust them with developer privileges or to grant them Ubuntu
membership status.

Candidates must expect to be able to attend the majority of DMB
meetings. Currently these take place on IRC, are scheduled on alternate
Mondays with each meeting alternating between 1600 UTC and 1900 UTC, and
last around an hour. Meeting times can be negotiated and adjusted by
board members as needed.

The new members shall be chosen using Condorcet voting. Members of the
ubuntu-dev team in Launchpad are eligible to vote. To ensure that you
receive a ballot in the initial mail, please ensure that a visible email
address exists on your Launchpad profile (although there shall be an
opportunity to receive a ballot after the vote has started if you do not
wish to do this).

The terms of the three highest ranked new board members shall be
approximately two years. To rebalance the team such that the entire
board does not change at once, the Technical Board have approved an
exception such that the further four elected board members shall have
terms of approximately one year.

Providing at least seven valid nominations are received, voting shall
commence on Wednesday 19 June and shall last for approximately seven
days, ending on or around Wednesday 26 June.

Please send nominations to developer-membership-board at
lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by DMB
members) by the end (in UTC) of Tuesday 11 June.

If nominating a developer other than yourself, please confirm that the
nominee is happy to sit on the board before emailing the DMB.

If nominated, please consider writing a short statement on your wiki
page so that others get a better idea of for whom they are voting. If
you include a link to your statement in your nomination mail or in a
followup, it shall be shared when the candidates are announced.

This call for nominations is being sent to a moderated announcement
mailing list. For discussion, Ubuntu developers should use ubuntu-devel
at lists.ubuntu.com.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2020-January/002481.html

On behalf of the Technical Board,

Robie
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