21:36 <iulian> #startmeeting 2200 UTC Ubuntu Membership Board
21:36 <meetingology> Meeting started Thu Apr  3 21:36:08 2014 UTC.  The chair is iulian. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.
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21:36 <iulian> Hello and welcome to the Ubuntu Membership Review Board for the 2200 UTC meeting for April 3, 2014.
21:36 <iulian> We will attempt to get through all of the applicants that have added themselves to that list before today's meeting. If we are unable to make it through the entire list due to time constraints, then at the next meeting we will pick up where we left off.
21:36 <iulian> The format for the meeting is as follows: We will go through the list of applicants one by one, by date of application (FIFO).
21:36 <iulian> Each applicant should introduce themselves (1-5 sentences) and provide links to their Ubuntu Wiki page. After the introduction the members of the Membership Review Board will review the pages and, if needed, ask the applicant further questions.
21:37 <iulian> During this time it is encouraged for other members of the community to show their support for the applicant. Do not be alarmed if the members of the Membership Review Board are quiet during this time; they are most likely reading wiki/launchpad/forum/other pages and deciding how they are going to vote.
21:37 <iulian> When the board is ready to vote, they will publicly vote in the channel with either +1, 0, or -1 (for membership, abstain, and against membership, respectively). If the sum of those numbers is positive, then the applicant is now an official Ubuntu member! (feel free congratulate them!)
21:37 <cjohnston> iulian: lets wait another 20 minutes :-)
21:38 <mihir> Hi
21:38 <iulian> Whoops.
21:39 <mihir> Mihir
21:40 <iulian> Hi there mihir. Apparently I got confused with the time. The meeting should start 20 minutes.
21:40 <iulian> But if everyone's here, then I wouldn't mind to start earlier. :-)
21:40 <iulian> RoozbehShafiee: Here?
21:40 <RoozbehShafiee> Im here too
21:40 <iulian> thomi: Here?
21:40 <RoozbehShafiee> iulian: yes
21:40 <thomi> iulian: yes
21:40 <mihir> iulian, okay
21:41 <iulian> cjohnston, Pendulum, hggdh: Do you guys mind if we start earlier? Everyone is present so I believe just waiting for another 20 minutes isn't going to make much of a difference.
21:41 <cjohnston> iulian: we should give the candidates time to gather any supporters that they may have had coming to the meeting to support them
21:42 <iulian> RoozbehShafiee, thomi, mihir: Would you like to start the meeting earlier? Are you guys ready?
21:42 <iulian> Ah, right, sure.
21:42 <mihir> iulian, yeah
21:42 <RoozbehShafiee> iulian: yes Im ready :)
21:42 <thomi> I'm happy either way
21:46 <mihir> iulian, ?
21:48 <iulian> We are just waiting for someone to reply.
21:50 <mihir> iulian, okay.
21:50 <hggdh> iulian: go for it
21:52 <iulian> Okey dokey.
21:52 <iulian> #voters hggdh cjohnston Pendulum iulian
21:52 <meetingology> Current voters: Pendulum cjohnston hggdh iulian
21:52 <iulian> #subtopic RoozbehShafiee
21:53 <iulian> RoozbehShafiee: You're up first. Could you please introduce yourself?
21:53 <RoozbehShafiee> iulian: yes sure
21:53 <RoozbehShafiee> iulian: Im Roozbeh Shafiee 27 years old
21:53 <RoozbehShafiee> iulian: linux user since 2003
21:54 <RoozbehShafiee> Im from IRAN-Tehran
21:54 <RoozbehShafiee> a member of ubuntu iran loco team
21:54 <RoozbehShafiee> also ubuntu.ir forum moderator
21:55 <RoozbehShafiee> my job is virtualization architect and systems administrator in a telecommunication company
21:55 <iulian> RoozbehShafiee: Thank you. I see that you have been a member of the Iran LoCo team since 2009. What is your role within the team?
21:56 <RoozbehShafiee> my role is forum moderator in this team
21:56 <RoozbehShafiee> and some of coordinations ubuntu iran in isfahan city are with me
21:57 <cjohnston> RoozbehShafiee: it looks like most of your activities you listed are from 2009, 2010... what have you done more recently?
21:58 <RoozbehShafiee> also in past I worked some of artworks for web site
21:58 <RoozbehShafiee> recently we had an ubuntu conference in May 2013
21:59 <RoozbehShafiee> in Tehran University
21:59 <Pendulum> RoozbehShafiee: Do you have a link to your profile on the Ubuntu Iran forums?
21:59 <RoozbehShafiee> I have some coordination in this event
21:59 <RoozbehShafiee> Pendulum: yes
22:01 <cjohnston> RoozbehShafiee: do you have anyone here to support you?
22:01 <Pendulum> RoozbehShafiee: Can you please give us the link to your forum profile?
22:02 <iulian> #voters PabloRubianes
22:02 <meetingology> Current voters: PabloRubianes Pendulum cjohnston hggdh iulian
22:02 <RoozbehShafiee> Pendulum: my profile: http://forum.ubuntu.ir/index.php?action=profile;u=1706
22:02 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: yes but they are not in channel right now
22:03 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: daniel holbach is one of my ubuntuish friend
22:03 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: I visit him 3 years ago in IRAN
22:03 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: also Mehdi Hassanpour
22:03 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: the Iran ubuntu team coordinator
22:04 <cjohnston> RoozbehShafiee: I noticed that you have no testimonials... we normally use testimonials as a way of getting to know the candidate and their contributions
22:04 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: well...
22:04 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: I emailed to Daniel and Mehdi
22:05 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: but for persian new year Mehdi didnt answer me
22:05 <RoozbehShafiee> unfortunately
22:05 <iulian> Any more questions for RoozbehShafiee?
22:05 <RoozbehShafiee> cjohnston: also it seems Daniel was not accessible
22:05 <hggdh> RoozbehShafiee: so, the lack of visible *recent*, sustained contributions to Ubuntu, and lack of testimonials, make our task much more difficult
22:07 <iulian> OK, if there are no more questions, then I believe it's time to vote.
22:07 <iulian> #vote RoozbehShafiee to obtain Ubuntu membership.
22:07 <meetingology> Please vote on: RoozbehShafiee to obtain Ubuntu membership.
22:07 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (for private voting, private message me with 'vote +1/-1/+0 #channelname)
22:08 <cjohnston> +0 I'm not able to see much in the way of recent work, nor are there any testimonials to help support you
22:08 <meetingology> +0 I'm not able to see much in the way of recent work, nor are there any testimonials to help support you received from cjohnston
22:08 <PabloRubianes> -1 please re done your wiki with more helpful info for us and come back
22:08 <meetingology> -1 please re done your wiki with more helpful info for us and come back received from PabloRubianes
22:08 <hggdh> -1 I do not see current Ubuntu contributions (the forum at ir needs registering), and no testimonials
22:08 <meetingology> -1 I do not see current Ubuntu contributions (the forum at ir needs registering), and no testimonials received from hggdh
22:08 <iulian> -1
22:08 <meetingology> -1 received from iulian
22:09 <Pendulum> -1 Please come back with testimonials and more information about current work.
22:09 <meetingology> -1 Please come back with testimonials and more information about current work. received from Pendulum
22:09 <iulian> #endvote
22:09 <meetingology> Voting ended on: RoozbehShafiee to obtain Ubuntu membership.
22:09 <meetingology> Votes for:0 Votes against:4 Abstentions:1
22:09 <meetingology> Motion denied
22:09 <iulian> RoozbehShafiee: Unfortunately, you have been unsuccessful this time. Please do keep up the good work that you are doing with the LoCo team. We are looking forward to reading your application next time you apply. We suggest that you re-apply in a few months. Also please talk to your friends and get some testimonials as they are really useful.
22:10 <Pendulum> RoozbehShafiee: I agree with iulian. It looks like you've done good work, it's just not possible for us to really see what it is.
22:10 <iulian> thomi: I believe you're up next. The stage is all yours.
22:10 <RoozbehShafiee> iulian Pendulum: ok guys , no problem
22:10 <thomi> cool
22:11 <thomi> so, I'm Thomi Richards, my wiki page is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThomiRichards - I currently reside in Dunedin, New Zealand
22:11 <thomi> The wiki page contains most of the information you probably care about. To summarise...
22:11 <thomi> I'm the principle author of Autopilot, which we use in our Ubuntu Touch & Desktop acceptance test suites. This is what I spend 90% of my day-to-day hacking time on.
22:11 <RoozbehShafiee> Pendulum: maybe because I completed my wiki page in 4 days ago, I had not much time to find testimonials
22:11 <thomi> I'm passionate about improving the quality of Ubuntu releases, and autopilot is one way I can do that. Right now we have dozens of high-profile projects using autopilot for their acceptance tests, and more coming online all the time.
22:11 <thomi> I'm also a consumate hacker, I have code in dozens of Ubuntu packages and open source projects (to name a few: Ogre3D, crystalspace, blender3d, testtools, etc).
22:11 <cjohnston> wait.. theres going to be more? :-/
22:12 <thomi> In my spare time I advocate for Linux, open source, and Ubuntu in my local community. I've spoken at conferences (Kiwi PyCon mostly) representing Ubuntu (can link to video if anyone wants).
22:12 <iulian> :-)
22:12 <thomi> I was involved in helping organise Linux.conf.au waaaay back in 2006, where Mark Shuttleworth was a keynote speaker, talking about launchpad.
22:12 <thomi> I work for Canonical, but have been using Linux for about 15 years now, and using Ubuntu since the good old days of Warty Warthog. I'm sure that if I ever stopped working for Canonical I'd still participate in Ubuntu.
22:12 <thomi> Apart from all that, I'm 'thomir' almost everywhere on the Internet - I think my launchpad, github, ohloh, etc profiles speak for themselves.
22:12 <thomi> </introduction>
22:13 <cjohnston> Any questions for thomi ?
22:13 <iulian> None from me.
22:13 <popey> ooh
22:13 <thomi> oh, there are some testamonials on my wiki page as well
22:13 <popey> +1 from me
22:13 <hggdh> none from me.
22:13 <PabloRubianes> not for me
22:13 <cjohnston> who woke up popey :-P
22:13 <PabloRubianes> none*
22:13 <hggdh> uhu, do I see popey crashing the party?
22:13 <thomi> hi popey o/
22:13 <popey> Didn't know thomi was up for membership!
22:13 <hggdh> :-)
22:14 <iulian> :-)
22:14 <popey> thomi has bee instrumental in creating the quality of Ubuntu for some time.
22:14 <cjohnston> popey had any good bacon and syrup recently :-)
22:14 <popey> shush
22:14 <hggdh> I have no questions for thomi, except why took him so long to apply...
22:14 <popey> that too ☻
22:14 <iulian> #vote thomi to obtain Ubuntu membership
22:14 <meetingology> Please vote on: thomi to obtain Ubuntu membership
22:14 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (for private voting, private message me with 'vote +1/-1/+0 #channelname)
22:14 <thomi> umm... I was.. busy?
22:15 <iulian> +1
22:15 <meetingology> +1 received from iulian
22:15 <cjohnston> +1
22:15 <meetingology> +1 received from cjohnston
22:15 <PabloRubianes> +1
22:15 <meetingology> +1 received from PabloRubianes
22:15 <hggdh> +1 finally!
22:15 <meetingology> +1 finally! received from hggdh
22:15 <Pendulum> +1
22:15 <meetingology> +1 received from Pendulum
22:15 <iulian> #endvote
22:15 <meetingology> Voting ended on: thomi to obtain Ubuntu membership
22:15 <meetingology> Votes for:5 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0
22:15 <meetingology> Motion carried
22:15 <cjohnston> hggdh: noone wrote it as an autopilot test
22:15 <hggdh> cjohnston: ah, that's a thomi failure there!
22:15 <PabloRubianes> congrats thomi
22:15 <cjohnston> hehe
22:15 <thomi> cheers!
22:15 <hggdh> thomi: welcome :-)
22:15 <popey> \o/
22:15 <iulian> thomi: Welcome aboard.
22:15 <iulian> mihir: You're up next. Fire away!
22:15 <popey> Well done thomi
22:16 <Pendulum> thomi: Welcome and congrats!
22:16 <mihir> Hi , My name is Mihir Soni
22:16 <mihir> i started contribute for Ubuntu touch core applications project.
22:16 <mihir> Initially I have been involved in Ubuntu touch core application as a contributor and then as core team developer for Calculator. After making successful progress in calculator I have been moved to Calendar app and started contributing there.
22:16 <mihir> My work includes creating new functional ties and resolving bugs and maintain bug trackers for calendar & calculator.
22:16 <mihir> Currently focusing on making calendar application stable and more functional.
22:16 <mihir> i have been using Ubuntu since 2006
22:16 <mihir> My wiki page :- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/mihirsoni-123
22:17 <mihir> Launchpad profile :- https://launchpad.net/~mihirsoni-123
22:17 <mihir> I am mostly working for core apps projects for ubuntu touch.
22:17 <popey> I'm actually here to cheer for mihir.
22:17 <popey> I'd back mihir for membership based on his valuable contributions.
22:17 <popey> He's been a reliable and consistent contributor to the core apps project on Ubuntu for phones.
22:18 <popey> He's been prompt, attentive and friendly with his code reviews, irc meetings, mails and hangouts and has been forthcoming with well thought out opinions and technical conributions.
22:18 <popey> (much as I love thomi) :D
22:18 <mihir> popey, thank you.
22:18 <popey> np
22:18 <iulian> Great, thanks popey.
22:18 <iulian> Any questions for mihir?
22:18 <PabloRubianes> mihir, do you do any LoCo work related?
22:19 <mihir> PabloRubianes, not much , but i am trying to be involved here in my loco team.
22:19 <mihir> well it is not much active here
22:20 <PabloRubianes> ok, mihir giving app development school could help activate the LoCo ;-)
22:20 <mihir> PabloRubianes, sure !!!
22:21 <mihir> PabloRubianes, i'll try to initiate
22:21 <iulian> OK, thanks mihir.
22:21 <iulian> #vote mihir to obtain Ubuntu membership
22:21 <meetingology> Please vote on: mihir to obtain Ubuntu membership
22:21 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (for private voting, private message me with 'vote +1/-1/+0 #channelname)
22:21 <iulian> +1
22:21 <meetingology> +1 received from iulian
22:21 <hggdh> +1 good work
22:21 <meetingology> +1 good work received from hggdh
22:21 <PabloRubianes> +1
22:21 <meetingology> +1 received from PabloRubianes
22:21 <popey> \o/
22:22 <Pendulum> +1 good work
22:22 <meetingology> +1 good work received from Pendulum
22:22 <hggdh> popey: life is good, I see ;-)
22:22 <cjohnston> +1
22:22 <meetingology> +1 received from cjohnston
22:22 <iulian> #endvote
22:22 <meetingology> Voting ended on: mihir to obtain Ubuntu membership
22:22 <meetingology> Votes for:5 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0
22:22 <meetingology> Motion carried
22:22 <iulian> Welcome aboard, mihir.
22:22 <popey> Thanks membership board!
22:22 <mihir> iulian, thanks a lot :)
22:22 <hggdh> mihir: welcome in, and thank you for your work
22:22 <popey> congratulations mihir
22:22 <iulian> #endmeeting