Community Council Meeting -------------------------- This meeting was held Tuesday 10 May 2005 at 16:00 UTC, in the #ubuntu-meeting channel on irc.freenode.net. Summarized by: Benjamin Mako Hill Full Log Available: http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/cc-meeting_log-20050510.html Agenda ------- * Review of new member candidates * IRC operators for #ubuntu * Any other business * Next meeting date Discussion ----------- Due to `Linux Conference Australia` and the `Ubuntu Down Under`_ conference, CC meetings had been put off for some time. This was the first CC meeting in over one month. The entire CC board was in attendance. New Member Candidates ====================== Due to the conference scheduling issues, the most recent scheduled CC meeting had been postponed. Additionally, the last scheduled CC meeting was, due to time scheduling issues, attended only by Benjamin Mako Hill. Due to the attendance of only one CC member, new members could not be confirmed at that meeting. While normally, the CC asks all members to attend the CC meeting where they are confirmed as a member, members who attended the previous meeting were considered at this meeting even if they were not able to attendbecause they managed to attend *a* CC meeting -- and the fact that it was inquorate was not their fault. As a result of the situation described above, there was a large number of candidates who were up for review this time. The following members were **approved for membership** by the Community Council at this meeting and are listed in the order in which they were approved: Reinhard Tartler Reinhard has a solid reputation earned during a few major MOTU "transitions." He intends to get his the packages he's worked on in hoary in shape for breezy and to put effort into the packages he maintains in Debian as well. He's interested in working on game related packages in particular. Alessio Fattorini Alessio is active on the Italian local community team. He he translated a good deal of documentation and helps coordinate the Italian translation project within the Italian LoCo. That team is using Rosetta. Alessio's primary goal is to help bring Ubuntu to Italy and to make it a success there. Jorge O. Castro Jorge made a solid contribution to the Ubuntu conference in Sydney at the UDU conference. He has also been active and regular participant in a number of different Ubuntu community forums for some time. He helps the LTSP people test their work and does other Ubuntu testing. Finally, he is a major coordinator for the Detroit LoCo Team and helps out some with the MOTU stuff as well. His current work is centered around `The Fridge` which is a new community portal for Ubuntu under development. Gerardo Di Giacomo Gerardo's work so far in Ubuntu has centered around contributions to Ubuntu's security. Martin Pitt and James Troup both vouched for him due to his work on this subject. One of his current pushes is for security support in universe -- a badly lacking area in Ubuntu. Daniel Robitaille Daniel has been acting as a grassroots community guy doing community support and posting loads of great information on Ubuntu news onto the sounder email list. The `Fridge` team is already looking at roping him into their work where he will surely do a great job. He's also doing great work with bug reports -- of which he submitted and helped out with a large number. He will hopefully be able to provide the Malone team with good feedback on their product. Stephan Hermann (\sh) Stephan Hermann -- nickname is \sh on IRC -- and does a huge amount for the Kubuntu team and came highly recommended by folks in that group. He also has done some good work on VoIP, Jabber, and SIP. Finally, he has been working on the MOTU Server Team which is doing some great work getting Ubuntu ready for servers. He is working on PyKDE package which is something that the Ubuntu KDE team is anxiously awaiting and badly wants. Michael Rimbert Michael is an operator in the Ubuntu IRC channel and he comes highly recommended by the MOTU leaders for his great work in ``universe``. The Ubuntu team thanked him for his work and looked forward to more great contributions from him in the future. Stephen Shirley Stephen -- IRC nick is diamond -- has also been a major contributor to the MOTU effort and has helped the team reach important targets. He took a bit of a breather after the hoary release after a major push but is alreadying stepping back in again. Chris Scheib Chris has been actively uploading to universe through other MOTUs and has been doing a great job and earning a good reputation from the rest of the MOTU team. He is also an active member of the Detroit Local Community team. He came highly recommended by all parties that knew him and had worked with him. Jon Dodson Jon has been been a major forums contributor with many posts and loads of support work. He's submitted great work to traffic and the Fridge Folks are eying ways to get his contributions into their community. Kassetra Similar to Jon, Kassetra made major contributions through the Ubuntu forums and is a strong and respected community member there. Also doing interesting work with local governments and pitching Ubuntu to them. The CC would love for Kassetra to show up at another meeting so they can talk and ask more questions. Travis Newman Travis has been communicating directly with Mako and with other people in the community. He's been active on the mailing lists and the forums since nearly day one. He's done great work in that time period. His example of non-code contributions to the project are a great one and the council was happy to recognize these with membership in the project. Matthew East Matthew East's reputation precedes him. He's done fantastic work on the wiki translating things into moin in preparation for a wiki transition in addition to great work on the Italian LoCo team, on the documentation team, and in the support forums. He was an extremely uncontroversial addition to the membership rosters. Members on the agenda who were present and should work on building up their page in the next couple weeks include: * Johnny Mast * Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia Hierro Other members were not present and should try to attend the next meeting where they will be handled. IRC Operators for #ubuntu =========================== Problems with IRC and a set of solutions was brainstormed at the Ubuntu down under conference and information and suggestions were posted here by Benjamin Mako Hill before the meeting: http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/InternetRelayChat There were a number of suggestions in that document. After asking the people in attendance, the board approved the first round of additions to the IRC operators list that included these people (identified by IRC nick): * crimsun * tritium * ajmitch * carlk * Amaranth * dholbach * ograting The group also decided to appoint the member of the CC as operators even though there was a not an expectation that they would be regularly monitoring the channel necessarily. Next Meeting Date =================== The next meeting will be on on May 24th at UTC22. See you all then! .. _ubuntu down under: http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com .. _linux conference Australia: http://linux.conf.au