Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board restaffing

[Robie Basak]

The terms of four members of the Developer Membership Board will expire
on 15 June, and a further member has stepped down. This is a call for
nominations to fill five out of 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[3], 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 shall be 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 will be
an opportunity to receive a ballot after the vote has started if you do
not wish to do this).

The term of the four highest ranked new board members shall be
approximately two years. To keep the terms appropriately staggered, the
term of the fifth ranked new board member shall be approximately one
year. Providing at least six valid nominations are received, voting
shall commence on 2025-06-12 and shall last for approximately seven
days, ending on or around 2025-06-19.

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 2025-06-05.

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 will 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
[3] A move to Matrix is expected soon

On behalf of the Technical Board,

Robie Basak
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