20:03 <lucyllewy-> #startmeeting Ubuntu Membership Board 20:03 <meetingology> Meeting started at 20:03:27 UTC. The chair is lucyllewy-. Information about MeetBot at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology 20:03 <meetingology> Available commands: action, commands, idea, info, link, nick 20:03 <lucyllewy-> #chair lucyllewy- 20:03 <meetingology> Current chairs: lucyllewy- 20:03 <lucyllewy-> Hello and welcome to the Ubuntu Membership Review Board meeting for 3rd October 2024. The wiki page for the Review Boards is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/Boards 20:03 <lucyllewy-> We will attempt to get through all the applicants that have added themselves to that list, or posted a thread to the Ubuntu Discourse, before today's meeting. If we are unable to make it through the complete list due to time constraints, then at the next meeting we will pick up where we left off. 20:03 <lucyllewy-> The format for the meeting is as follows: We will go through the list of applicants one by one, by date of application (FIFO). 20:03 <lucyllewy-> Each applicant should introduce themselves (1-5 sentences) and provide links to their Ubuntu Wiki page or Ubuntu Discourse thread. After the introduction, the members of the Membership Review Board will review the pages and, if needed, ask the applicant further questions. 20:03 <lucyllewy-> 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 reading wiki/launchpad/forum/other pages and deciding how they are going to vote. 20:03 <lucyllewy-> 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 most of the voting board members vote +1, then the applicant is now an official Ubuntu member! (Feel free congratulate them!) 20:03 <lucyllewy-> Now, with any further ado, let's get started with the first applicant... 20:04 <lucyllewy-> First up (only applicant today) is Oliver Smith ( local_optimum ). Hi, Oliver, can you introduce yourself to the board members and share the links to your application post and your launchpad profile 20:06 <local_optimum> Fantastic, thank you very much, it's great to be here finally. It was recently my third anniversary of working on Ubuntu at Canonical and I felt it was well overdue to apply after all this time. I've been an Ubuntu user for a while and joined Canonical because it felt like part of my core values to ensure that a private open source operating system should be able to compete in the mainstream space. 20:07 <local_optimum> I joined as the Product Manager for Ubuntu Desktop, working closely with the engineering teams, expanded my remit to cover Ubuntu Server as well and have since taken over as interim engineering director of the Desktop team. I feel this is a nice endorsement of my engagement with the developers and community to be able to contribute in this way. 20:07 <local_optimum> My membership application is here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oliver-smith-membership-application/48277 20:08 <local_optimum> launchpad is here: https://launchpad.net/~local-optimum 20:08 <local_optimum> happy to dive into detail on any of these items :) hopefully i am not an unfamiliar face 20:09 <lucyllewy-> awesome. thank you. While the board members review your application and come up with any questions they want to ask I will make sure the question on the Code of Conduct is asked for formalities... 20:09 <lucyllewy-> You have signed the Code of Conduct. Do you affirm that you have read and understood the whole document, and do you agree to be bound by the terms for the duration of your membership should it be granted? 20:09 <local_optimum> I have signed it (prior to starting my role in the first place) and agree to be bound by it :) 20:09 <lucyllewy-> coolbeans. 20:10 <lucyllewy-> Board members, ask any questions you might have, and let me know when you're ready to vote. 20:10 <lucyllewy-> I think I am good to go with the information already provided and the glowing testimonials 20:11 <Wild_Man> Me too, excellent testimonials and work done 20:12 <mapreri> indeed, today's application looks very well done, full of endorsements as well (those have been getting rare in recent times…) 20:13 <Bashing-om> local_optimum: In the event that Canonical employment is terminated, what is your vision to continue contributing to Ubuntu ? 20:15 <local_optimum> A good question, Ubuntu is a core part of my life and that's not going to change in terms of the ways I use it as a platform for most of my personal projects, I enjoy writing up the work I do and sharing it on my blog as I think there are lack of approachable guides that bring a lot of the different use-cases together. I would certainly hope to continue to be involved in community discussions, I can't 20:15 <local_optimum> imagine losing touch with the relationships I've built over the last few years. And to be honest I'd probably be able to contribute more code/snaps/applications to the ecosystem as it would certainly free-up some time. I have some v poorly maintained snaps I'd love to go back to. 20:16 <lucyllewy-> that's a good answer <3 20:16 <Kilos> well said 20:16 <Bashing-om> +1 20:16 <lucyllewy-> anyone else have any more questions or are we ready to vote? 20:17 <mapreri> hear hear indeed. I'm good :) 20:17 <Kilos> none here ty 20:17 <Wild_Man> ready 20:17 <Bashing-om> ready 2 20:17 <lucyllewy-> #vote Oliver Smith's Ubuntu Membership application 20:17 <meetingology> Please vote on: Oliver Smith's Ubuntu Membership application 20:18 <meetingology> Public votes can be registered by saying +1, -1 or +0 in channel (for private voting, private message me with 'vote +1|-1|+0 #channelname') 20:18 <lucyllewy-> #voters lucyllewy- Wild_Man mapreri Kilos Bashing-om 20:18 <meetingology> Current voters: Bashing-om, Kilos, Wild_Man, lucyllewy-, mapreri 20:18 <Kilos> +1 20:18 <meetingology> +1 received from Kilos 20:18 <Bashing-om> +1 20:18 <meetingology> +1 received from Bashing-om 20:18 <Wild_Man> +1 20:18 <meetingology> +1 received from Wild_Man 20:18 <mapreri> +1 aye! 20:18 <meetingology> +1 aye! received from mapreri 20:18 <lucyllewy-> +1 Very thorough application, I love the glowing testimonials, and you are clearly committed to the community. I wholeheartedly give my +1 20:18 <meetingology> +1 Very thorough application, I love the glowing testimonials, and you are clearly committed to the community. I wholeheartedly give my +1 received from lucyllewy- 20:18 <lucyllewy-> #endvote 20:18 <meetingology> Voting ended on: Oliver Smith's Ubuntu Membership application 20:18 <meetingology> Votes for: 5, Votes against: 0, Abstentions: 0 20:18 <meetingology> Motion carried 20:19 <lucyllewy-> Congratulations Oliver! 20:19 <lucyllewy-> just gimme a second to post some info for you 20:19 <Kilos> Congrats local_optimumkeep up the good work . I am happy to have you on board 20:19 <local_optimum> Awesome, thanks very much all :) it genuinely is a real personal achievement to become a member and means a lot. 20:19 <Wild_Man> Congratulations local_optimum 20:19 <Bashing-om> local_optimum: \o/ - congrats! 20:19 <lucyllewy-> Congratulations to all the new members. Don't forget to check the perks at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership#The_Perks and once you've been added to the members group remember to apply for your certificate at https://forms.canonical.com/certificate/ (1/2) 20:19 <lucyllewy-> Your @ubuntu.com email address will go live within 48 hours. Do NOT set it as your primary launchpad.net email address because that will cause emails to loop forever and you'll never receive them! (2/2) 20:20 <lucyllewy-> With that I can end the meeting... Thank you for coming everyone <3 I look forward to seeing those of you who are coming to the Ubuntu Summit in three weeks 20:20 <local_optimum> See you there! 20:20 <mapreri> local_optimum: now do remember the promised beers in 3 weeks! :P 20:21 <local_optimum> all bribes to be paid in full ;) 20:21 <Kilos> thanks for chairing lucyllewy- 20:21 <lucyllewy-> #endmeeting