21:03 <AlanBell> #startmeeting IRC team 21:03 <meetingology> Meeting started Sun Oct 27 21:03:51 2013 UTC. The chair is AlanBell. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 21:03 <meetingology> 21:03 <meetingology> Available commands: #accept #accepted #action #agree #agreed #chair #commands #endmeeting #endvote #halp #help #idea #info #link #lurk #meetingname #meetingtopic #nick #progress #rejected #replay #restrictlogs #save #startmeeting #subtopic #topic #unchair #undo #unlurk #vote #voters #votesrequired 21:04 <AlanBell> not been very organised about advance notifications for this meeting, but here we are 21:04 <AlanBell> and I have been kinda busy/mostly offline for a while 21:04 <AlanBell> #topic Review last meetings action items 21:05 <IdleOne> o/ 21:07 <AlanBell> there were no action items recorded, but we were going to do the cloak removals of expired members, don't think we got far with that 21:07 <AlanBell> #action ircc to do the cloak removals 21:07 * meetingology ircc to do the cloak removals 21:07 <AlanBell> I will have a crack at it this week 21:07 <AlanBell> #topic Open items in the IRCC tracker 21:07 <AlanBell> none, just checked it 21:08 <AlanBell> #topic Review Bugs related to the Ubuntu IRC Council 21:08 <AlanBell> no bugs 21:08 <AlanBell> #topic Operator Applicants 21:08 <AlanBell> we are at the start of a new development cycle, Trusty Tahir 21:09 <AlanBell> nope, got that wrong 21:09 <AlanBell> Trusty Tahr 21:09 <AlanBell> and we have a general intake of operators in line with the development cycle, so it is time to process the queues and see what applicants there are 21:10 <IdleOne> Anybody who is disillusioned enough to believe they can make a difference? 21:10 <AlanBell> **** Team **** #kubuntu-devel IRC Operators 21:10 <AlanBell> 14517 https://launchpad.net/~smartboyhw Howard Chan 21:10 <AlanBell> just the one :) 21:11 <IdleOne> go ahead and +o him then :) 21:11 <AlanBell> hang on, might be some more 21:14 <AlanBell> **** Team **** #ubuntu-offtopic IRC Operators 21:14 <AlanBell> 44 https://launchpad.net/~robtongue Rob Tongue 21:14 <AlanBell> **** Team **** #xubuntu IRC Operators 21:14 <AlanBell> 13 https://launchpad.net/~mystic-scientist Kaulbach 21:14 <AlanBell> 21:08 >> OpenURL 12 21:14 <AlanBell> **** Team **** #ubuntu IRC Operators 21:14 <AlanBell> 44 https://launchpad.net/~robtongue Rob Tongue 21:14 <AlanBell> that seems to be it 21:15 <AlanBell> Rob Tongue is phunyguy 21:16 <IdleOne> I think genii is a given 21:16 <AlanBell> yeah, existing operators are basically a given 21:16 <AlanBell> anyhow, I will go through that with the rest of the IRCC and we will make fairly swift decisions I imagine 21:17 <IdleOne> Sounds like an action plan 21:17 * genii sips 21:17 <AlanBell> #topic Membership applications 21:17 <AlanBell> none today 21:17 <AlanBell> #topic Any Other Business 21:17 <AlanBell> anyone else got any comments or questions? 21:18 <IdleOne> none right now for me 21:19 <AlanBell> ok, I will note that we will be kicking off the next IRCC election next month, we expire at the end of December 21:20 <AlanBell> charter and details are here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil 21:20 <IdleOne> do we know how many seats will be up for grabs? 21:21 <AlanBell> in fact, as we have to do a shortlist to the CC before we can open voting I think we should kick it off sooner rather than later to give people time to do wiki pages and the like 21:21 <AlanBell> I think all 5 of us expire at the same time 21:21 <AlanBell> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-irc-council/+members 21:23 <genii> Strange, on most boards, terms are offset so that there is never a complete turnover in a single election. 21:23 <AlanBell> we actually syncronised it kind of intentionally 21:24 <AlanBell> Tm_T joined 6 months after the others, but the expiry date was brought into line 21:25 <AlanBell> mainly so we don't have more elections to manage than neccessary 21:25 <AlanBell> we are all able to stand again, multiple terms are fine, I would be surprised at a complete turnover, but we haven't really discussed intentions around standing again 21:27 <AlanBell> anyhow, I would expect a more full discussion of the election process next month, but I will probably send an initial email to the list and announce in a few places that people thinking of standing for election to the IRCC should familiarise themselves with the process and check their wiki page 21:27 <AlanBell> anything else for now? 21:28 <AlanBell> #endmeeting