<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Aloha Sorry for the delay in getting this to folks. We had 4 new members approved to the EMEA Board this week. 1) Iain Farrell - <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eiain-farrell">https://launchpad.net/~iain-farrell</a> Iain who worked in Canonical in the past in the design team, still is active in the community and helping to run the wallpaper competition. He also helps in Ubuntu advocacy and reporting of bugs. 2) Gunnar Hjalmarsson - <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Egunnarhj">https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj</a> Gunnar, is active in the translations community and has helped to improve the translation tools to make it easier for translations to be done by the community. 3) Omar Mohsen - <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eegyparadox">https://launchpad.net/~egyparadox</a> Omar, who is active in the Egyptian loco, helps to promote Ubuntu in his loco community, by helping to organise events and spread Ubuntu happenings via social media and he has also taken part and contributed via translations in Arabic 4) Tadeas Parik - <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Epariktadeas">https://launchpad.net/~pariktadeas</a> Tadeas, Member of the Czech loco and helps in the organisation of the loco, and also organising events for the team. Congratulations to all the new members! Laura Czajkowski On behalf of the Americas Regional Membership Board </body> </html>