Fwd: Kubuntu Council Elections 2017 - Call for Nominations - Rik Mills

[Paul Loughman]

Errantly sent this reply to Rik Mills instead of the List. My bad!

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Paul O. Loughman

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> From: Paul Loughman <snowhg at icloud.com>
> Date: September 4, 2017 at 9:36:23 AM CDT
> To: Rik Mills <rikmills at kubuntu.org>
> Subject: Re: Kubuntu Council Elections 2017 - Call for Nominations - Rik Mills
> 
> Rik became a member on Kubuntu Forums . Net on May 28, 2016 and has been an active KFN member on an almost daily basis. His knowledge of Kubuntu and KDE, both as a developer and a Kubuntu Team Member, have made him an invaluable member and a rare resource for us. We are extremely grateful that he is part of 'our team', and I believe he would make an excellent Kubuntu Council Member.
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> Paul O. Loughman aka "Snowhog"
> Kubuntu Forums . Net
> Administrator
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Sep 4, 2017, at 6:45 AM, Rik Mills <rikmills at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I wish to nominate myself to stand for the Kubuntu Council in the 2017
>> elections.
>> 
>> My name is Rik Mills, and I have been a Kubuntu Member for nearly a
>> year, and a Kubuntu Developer since February.
>> 
>> My LP profile can be found at: https://launchpad.net/~rikmills
>> 
>> Since getting involved in Kubuntu I have tried to make daily (or nearly
>> so) contributions to the project, including areas such as
>> (non-exhaustively) development, packaging, uploads, administering our
>> CI, website announcements, advocacy and user help on forums and social
>> media, collaborating with other projects, and more..... I have made
>> contributions to KDE Neon and KDE also, hopefully to the benefit of both
>> ends.
>> 
>> Things I would like to accomplish on the Council would include:
>> 
>> 1) Increase our social media and outreach presence, both to help users
>> and promote the project and get useful user feedback. At the moment this
>> is some somewhat piecemeal, and I think we can do better in both
>> organisation and breadth.
>> 
>> 2) Bring more people such as packagers, documenters, coders, artists etc
>> into the project. This may go hand in hand with aim (1), but we also
>> need to still improve the visibility and clarity of the entry path to
>> contributing in the many possible areas we have. One example may be the
>> restart of Kubuntu Ninja dojo sessions on BigBlueButton or similar, as
>> the value of practical live sessions such as that can encourage people
>> more than volumes of wiki pages and docs (not that those are not crucial
>> also).
>> 
>> 3) Work better with other projects for our mutual benefit. There has
>> certainly been good progress with this in the last 12 months, but I feel
>> we can still do better. We have huge common interest with projects such
>> as KDE Neon, that I don't think are fully explored. The same for other
>> ubuntu flavours, such as lubuntu where shared resources on Qt/KDE
>> essentials such as update manager/notifications, installer front end,
>> better driver manager and more would benefit us all.
>> 
>> There is a lot more that could be said, but this is a nomination, not a
>> manifesto, so I will stop there.
>> 
>> Thank you all.
>> 
>> Rik Mills
>> Kubuntu Developer
>> 
>>> On 29/08/17 00:20, Clive Johnston wrote:
>>> Hello Kubuntu community!
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, we overlooked that three (3) of our Kubuntu Council
>>> members are expiring shortly! It was only brought to our attention today
>>> (big heart felt apologies for that!).  
>>> 
>>> The terms for the following Council members are due to expire on the 9th
>>> September 2017: 
>>> 
>>> Aaron Honeycutt
>>> Clay Weber
>>> Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan  
>>> 
>>> I hereby call for nominations for the Kubuntu Council to elect three
>>> (3) members and hope that Aaron Honeycutt, Clay Weber and
>>> Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan will continue to serve until we have the names of
>>> the new Council members.
>>> 
>>> I will update the Kubuntu Calendar to reflect these new dates,
>>> and include deadlines for announcing the next election/call for nominations.
>>> 
>>> The term is for two years, spanning 11th September 2017 to 11th
>>> September 2019.
>>> 
>>> As in the past, the election will be conducted using CIVS
>>> (Condorcet Internet Voting Service)
>>> - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html
>>> <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html> and the top three ranking
>>> vote recipients will be elected.   Good stuff!
>>> 
>>> *Schedule:*
>>> 
>>> Nomination period: Now to the 4th September 2017
>>> Ballot Preparation: 4th September to the next day
>>> Voting Period: 4th September to 11th September
>>> End Poll/Results Announced: 11th September
>>> New Term Begins: 11th September 2017
>>> 
>>> This schedule shortens all the timelines. Please nominate yourselves or
>>> others quickly, so we can get to voting quickly. Please mention what you
>>> would like to accomplish within the Kubuntu project (Why people should
>>> vote for you)
>>> 
>>> *Eligibility:*
>>> 
>>> All Kubuntu Members ( https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+members
>>> <https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+members> ) are eligible to be
>>> nominated and to vote. If you have a public email address in Launchpad,
>>> you need take no further action to receive your voting ballot. If you do
>>> not have a public email address, please
>>> contact me off-list with the address you'd like your ballot sent
>>> to, otherwise you will be unable to vote.
>>> 
>>> *Nominations:*
>>> 
>>> All Kubuntu members are eligible. The Kubuntu Council is intended
>>> to represent all of the Kubuntu community. Applications from
>>> involved non-developers are encouraged. If you are nominating someone
>>> else, please confirm their willingness to serve before nominating them.
>>> Nominations should be done in public via either kubuntu-users
>>> or kubuntu-devel mailing lists. If there is some extraordinary
>>> reason that precludes that, contact me directly.
>>> 
>>> *Commitment:*
>>> 
>>> The Kubuntu Council is the leadership body of Kubuntu.  Members of
>>> the council are expected to be active in the Kubuntu community/project.
>>> It has three primary roles:
>>> 
>>> - Approve development plans for future Kubuntu releases
>>> - Approve Kubuntu membership applications
>>> - Resolve disputes within the Kubuntu project
>>> 
>>> The time commitment is not large. Meetings are generally only once every
>>> several months and conducted via IRC. However, we do need the Kubuntu
>>> Council to lead the community, not sit back and only attend meetings.
>>> 
>>> *Questions:*
>>> 
>>> If there are questions, you can contact me (preferably) via this mailing
>>> list or (if really necessary) via direct mail.  I can also be found on
>>> Freenode IRC in #kubuntu, #kubuntu-council or #kubuntu-devel, nickname:
>>> clivejo
>>> 
>>> Many thanks to all and please remember "time is of the essence".  
>>> 
>>> Happy nominating and voting,
>>> Clive
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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