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.
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.
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.
The next meeting will be on on May 24th at UTC22. See you all then!