IRC Council election in process

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Neal Bussett <neal at bussett.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The election for the IRC Council has started.  We are filling three
> seats on the IRCC.  There are five candidates:
> hggdh (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hggdh)
> Na3iL (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Na3iL)
> rww (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rww)
> Tm_T (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JussiKekkonen)
> unit193 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unit193)
>
> All members of the Ubuntu IRC Team are eligible to vote and should have
> received an email from CIVS a moment ago.  If you have NOT received an
> email from CIVS, please contact me.
>
> Voting is expected to end in approximately two weeks, on Monday, April
> 4th at 07:00 UTC.
>
> Regards,
> Neal
> (Flannel)

Hi folks, I've written to Neal privately, because I didn't yet get a
ballot. It turns out that I didn't get a ballot because I'm not on the
lp team https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-irc-members. This seems to be a
closed team; there is no "join this team" button on the lp page.
However, there is a link to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Membership --
and this page, which offers Ubuntu Membership through IRC work, seems
to be the only way to join the Ubuntu IRC Team. Is this so?

I'm a operator on the Kubuntu channels, not just because I'm an
experienced IRC chanop, but also because I'm a Kubuntu Councillor. I
participate in the #ubuntu-ops channel, because I'm an op on a core
channel. And yet I'm not a member of the ubuntu irc team?

I believe we should lower the barrier a bit here, and open up
membership to all of those active and participating in IRC help,
whether or not they became Ubuntu Members through the IRC Team.

Respectfully,

Valorie Zimmerman
https://launchpad.net/~valorie-zimmerman
Member since: 2009-04-11