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20:22:55 <highvoltage> Welcome to this month's EMEA RMB meeting
20:23:02 <highvoltage> and apologies for the late start
20:23:10 <czajkowski> AlanBell: is also gonna join to help
20:23:14 <highvoltage> applications will be called one by one. please have a short introduction ready
20:23:20 <AlanBell> hi all
20:23:32 <highvoltage> This month's applications are: utlemming, cielak and mhmodIbrhm
20:23:37 <highvoltage> cielak: ready? :)
20:23:42 <cielak> yes!
20:23:51 <highvoltage> #topic cielak
20:23:59 <highvoltage> cielak: please introduce yourself
20:24:17 <cielak> so, my name is Rafał Cieślak, and have been a full-time Ubuntu user since 4.5 years
20:24:34 <cielak> and since then I've always wanted to contribute to Ubuntu & the community
20:24:36 <czajkowski> cielak: hi thanks for coming
20:24:43 <cielak> :-)
20:24:54 <highvoltage> for some reason I thought you were an Ubuntu member already :)
20:25:00 <cielak> I particularly enjoy providing user support at AskUbuntu
20:25:11 <cielak> during 2 years I have gathered 3,000+ rep points
20:25:33 <cielak> I also contribute code to Ubuntu
20:25:42 <cielak> so I did to fix few bugs in Unity
20:25:51 <highvoltage> cielak: if you could change any one thing in the ubuntu community, what would that be?
20:25:53 <cielak> and now I ma heavily involved in Ubuntu Accomplishment System
20:25:53 <czajkowski> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RafalCieslak
20:26:03 <cielak> by programming & documantation
20:26:16 <cielak> well, I guess there is one thing that needs being improved
20:26:19 <highvoltage> (oosh, I was lookng at the wrong wiki page)
20:26:45 <cielak> it's introducing new developers - programmers - who might be helpful in many Ubuntu related projects
20:26:54 <highvoltage> cielak: if you could change any one thing in the Ubuntu community, what would that be?
20:27:00 <cielak> in my opinion we do not encourage them enough
20:27:24 <cielak> and I have met with situation that some of them were convinced that it's a hard thing
20:27:33 <cielak> so that's what needs fixing IMO
20:27:34 <cielak> also
20:27:39 <cielak> there is Polish LoCo
20:27:55 <cielak> which I guess is a great example of what a LoCo should not be
20:28:59 <czajkowski> cielak: why is that ?
20:29:06 <cielak> there is quite a broad community, but it all ends with endless flamewars, which brings Ubuntu bad reputation, here in Poland
20:29:36 <cielak> the "official" polish ubuntu sites & forum are badly maintained, and are incredibly unhelpful
20:29:51 <lifeless> got to run, baby to put down for naptime
20:30:22 <lifeless> czajkowski: you're not in -rmb
20:30:22 <czajkowski> highvoltage: I've no more questions
20:30:30 <highvoltage> ok lets vote
20:30:35 <cielak> fixing that will of course require lots of efforts and I won't be able to fix it on my own
20:30:41 <highvoltage> #vote cielak for Ubuntu Membership
20:30:41 <meetingology> Please vote on: cielak for Ubuntu Membership
20:30:41 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me)
20:30:52 <czajkowski> +1
20:30:52 <meetingology> +1 received from czajkowski
20:31:07 <AlanBell> +1
20:31:07 <meetingology> +1 received from AlanBell
20:31:09 <highvoltage> +1 [ great sustained involvement ]
20:31:09 <meetingology> +1 [ great sustained involvement ] received from highvoltage
20:31:19 <highvoltage> Pendulum?
20:31:32 <Pendulum> +1
20:31:32 <meetingology> +1 received from Pendulum
20:31:37 <highvoltage> #endvote
20:31:37 <meetingology> Voting ended on: cielak for Ubuntu Membership
20:31:37 <meetingology> Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0
20:31:37 <meetingology> Motion carried
20:31:44 <cielak> \o/ :)
20:31:47 <highvoltage> cielak: congratulations and welcome!
20:31:52 <SpamapS> utlemming next?
20:31:55 <cielak> thanks! :)
20:31:56 <highvoltage> yes
20:31:59 <SpamapS> I want to say he's awesome and must go soon
20:32:02 <highvoltage> sorry, I messed up the order a bit
20:32:14 <highvoltage> SpamapS: acknowledged :)
20:32:26 <highvoltage> utlemming: your turn! please tell us a bit about yourself
20:32:30 <utlemming> Hi, my name is Ben Howard (utlemming). I am currently am the currator of the Ubuntu Cloud Images. I'm a technical, albeit, non-packaging person. My contributions to Ubuntu involve setting up new Cloud image infrastructure, building new cloud deployment metholodogies, and maintaining the images at http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com. I am a Canonical employee. I am applying for membership here instead of through the developer board since I don't really
20:32:31 <utlemming> do much packaging work.
20:32:39 <czajkowski> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ben_Howard%28utlemming%29
20:33:01 <AlanBell> that is a lot of code :) https://code.launchpad.net/~utlemming
20:33:09 <utlemming> Yes it is :)
20:33:40 <highvoltage> utlemming: could you tell us a little about what building new cloud images entails? do you plan to involve the community at all with that, and is it even possible?
20:33:52 <utlemming> Yes, it is very possiable.
20:34:14 <utlemming> One of the things that I am working on right now is to enable the community to be able to take our base image and then change it
20:34:46 <utlemming> Also, I'm holding a UDS session where I am trying to get more input from the users
20:34:55 <highvoltage> great :)
20:35:06 <highvoltage> any other questions, comments or cheers?
20:35:31 <SpamapS> utlemming is extremely knowledgable
20:35:37 <SpamapS> and helpful to users in #ubuntu-cloud and #ubuntu-server
20:35:54 <SpamapS> He will do a great honor to the @ubuntu.com email domian. :)
20:35:58 <czajkowski> utlemming: how would you like to help the community more?
20:35:59 <highvoltage> :)
20:36:01 <czajkowski> and get them more involved?
20:36:23 <utlemming> 1) gather input and find out where the images need work or are not meeting people's needs
20:36:40 <utlemming> to this point, I have several meetings set up with communitity users next week to talk about it
20:37:29 <highvoltage> great, I'm sure you have more ideas, but it's time to put it to vote
20:37:31 <utlemming> 2) being active on the relevant email lists -- which is helping to generate disucssion. I've learned that by interacting with the community that I can get important feedback, and more imporantly help the community use the images
20:37:42 <highvoltage> #vote utlemming for Ubuntu membership
20:37:42 <meetingology> Please vote on: utlemming for Ubuntu membership
20:37:42 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me)
20:38:10 <czajkowski> +1
20:38:10 <meetingology> +1 received from czajkowski
20:38:16 <highvoltage> +1 [ continued good work on cloud images and improving community involvement through support and advocacy ]
20:38:16 <meetingology> +1 [ continued good work on cloud images and improving community involvement through support and advocacy ] received from highvoltage
20:38:19 <AlanBell> +1 significant and sustained
20:38:19 <meetingology> +1 significant and sustained received from AlanBell
20:38:20 <Pendulum> +1
20:38:20 <meetingology> +1 received from Pendulum
20:38:29 <highvoltage> #endvote
20:38:29 <meetingology> Voting ended on: utlemming for Ubuntu membership
20:38:29 <meetingology> Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0
20:38:29 <meetingology> Motion carried
20:38:40 <utlemming> :)
20:38:41 <cielak> congrats utlemming! :)
20:38:43 * utlemming is happy
20:38:44 <highvoltage> utlemming: congratulations and welcome :)
20:38:44 <SpamapS> \o/
20:39:08 <mhmodIbrhm> congrats. ultemning & cielak :)
20:39:14 <highvoltage> mhmodIbrhm: hi! you're up next :)
20:39:21 <highvoltage> please introduce yourself
20:39:21 <mhmodIbrhm> yes, i am ready :)
20:39:58 <czajkowski> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mahmoud%20Ibrahem
20:40:02 <mhmodIbrhm> i am Mahmoud Mohamed i started using ubuntu for 4 years i joint my loco team since 2009
20:40:23 <mhmodIbrhm> and i co-organized our first 2 events for the team in my faculty
20:40:41 <czajkowski> wow impressive wiki page
20:40:43 <mhmodIbrhm> and i always being contributed with them till we got approved
20:40:49 <mhmodIbrhm> thanks :)
20:42:11 <mhmodIbrhm> i think i finished the short introduction :)
20:42:27 <czajkowski> mhmodIbrhm: so what would you change in the ubuntu community ?
20:42:57 <highvoltage> mhmodIbrhm: how is the revival of the LoCo team coming along?
20:43:14 <highvoltage> (and if you could change anything in your loco, what would that be?)
20:44:32 <mhmodIbrhm0> i am sorry i am suffering from a bad internet connection this night
20:45:12 <lifeless> back
20:45:42 <AlanBell> you are not a big user of launchpad (unless your profile changed or something), where do you mainly do online stuff? IRC/Forums/Askubuntu/other?
20:45:55 <lifeless> ah, I see AlanBell is here now, I'll quietly head off to do other things ;)
20:46:03 <highvoltage> mhmodIbrhm: no problem, if you lose your connection of feel that you've missed a question, please let us know
20:46:16 <AlanBell> lifeless: noo, don't leave me!
20:47:49 <highvoltage> mhmodIbrhm0: are you still there?
20:49:23 <mhmodIbrhm2> i am sorry
20:50:16 <mhmodIbrhm> i am sorry, i am suffering from a bad Internet connection this night
20:50:27 <mhmodIbrhm> but i am ready now, highvoltage
20:50:43 <AlanBell> you are not a big user of launchpad (unless your profile changed or something), where do you mainly do online stuff? IRC/Forums/Askubuntu/other?
20:51:24 <highvoltage> mhmodIbrhm: ok, how is the revival of the Egyption loco going? Are there still any big problems that you'd like to do something about?
20:51:37 <mhmodIbrhm> i always communicate with my team
20:51:37 <mhmodIbrhm> throug the mailing list
20:51:37 <mhmodIbrhm> and i always help the new users in our facebook group
20:52:07 <highvoltage> any last questions/comments/cheers for mhmodIbrhm?
20:52:08 <mhmodIbrhm> no we are doing great :)
20:52:13 <highvoltage> good to hear :)
20:52:23 <MrChrisDruif> Yay!
20:52:25 <mhmodIbrhm> and we are looking forward for more events and we start our structure
20:52:39 <highvoltage> #vote mhmodIbrhm for Ubuntu membership
20:52:39 <meetingology> Please vote on: mhmodIbrhm for Ubuntu membership
20:52:39 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me)
20:53:00 <highvoltage> +1 [ great sustained contribution to LoCo community in Egypt and good Ubuntu advocacy ]
20:53:00 <meetingology> +1 [ great sustained contribution to LoCo community in Egypt and good Ubuntu advocacy ] received from highvoltage
20:53:09 <Pendulum> +1
20:53:09 <meetingology> +1 received from Pendulum
20:53:37 <czajkowski> +2
20:53:40 <czajkowski> +1
20:53:40 <meetingology> +1 received from czajkowski
20:53:59 <highvoltage> AlanBell?
20:54:25 <AlanBell> +1 hope you continue to help the loco to grow
20:54:25 <meetingology> +1 hope you continue to help the loco to grow received from AlanBell
20:54:30 <highvoltage> #endvote
20:54:30 <meetingology> Voting ended on: mhmodIbrhm for Ubuntu membership
20:54:30 <meetingology> Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0
20:54:30 <meetingology> Motion carried
20:54:45 <highvoltage> mhmodIbrhm: congratulations and welcome
20:54:48 <czajkowski> whoo welcome aboard folks
20:54:51 <cielak> congrats mhmodIbrhm! :)
20:54:59 <cielak> thanks for your time everybody!
20:55:01 <mhmodIbrhm> thanks you all :)
20:55:08 <highvoltage> cielak, utlemming, mhmodIbrhm: You have been added to ~ubuntu-members
20:55:21 <czajkowski> highvoltage: it's been fun on the board with you :)
20:55:27 <highvoltage> it may take up to 24 hours for your @ubuntu.com email address to take effect
20:55:31 <czajkowski> AlanBell: lifeless Pendulum thank you for stepping in
20:55:49 <highvoltage> if you have problems, please contact rt@ubuntu.com with the details
20:55:58 <cielak> highvoltage: right, thanks! :)
20:56:00 <highvoltage> (or ask any of us on IRC)
20:56:13 <cielak> also, whom should I contact to get an IRC cloak?
20:56:24 <highvoltage> We're not scheduling a next meeting yet, since we have some pending restructuring currently.
20:56:31 <highvoltage> more details will be announced publicly soon.
20:57:00 <highvoltage> Thank you for attending this month's EMEA RMB meeting!
20:57:26 <highvoltage> and thank you to AlanBell, Pendulum and czajkowski for reviewing
20:57:33 <highvoltage> #endmeeting