In order to get the Community Council from four to eight members again, we are going to have an election in a few weeks. All Ubuntu members are eligible to vote.
I will announce the details of the election soon. What we want from you now is nominations.
If you know somebody in the Ubuntu community, who
- has been an Ubuntu member for a while
- is dedicated to the project
- is well-respected and known for balanced views and good leadership
- has a good overview over various aspects of the project
- is organised and has some organisation talent
(or you know that this all applies to you), please send an email to me (daniel.holbach at ubuntu dot com) with the subject “[CC Nomination]” until July 17th, 12:00 UTC. (I’ll be on vacation afterwards.) If you can confirm that the person is willing to stand for election, please do so.
I am interested, but want to learn more.
Is this still being updated? Really only 4 meetings in all of 2008?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/CC
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CategoryCommunityCouncil and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports probably have a bit more overview over what the CC has been doing.
The 4 meetings are not accurate, the page has not been updated.
It would be great if in the Community Council we could have at least one representative from each major culture.
It is not easy, but I think that it is very important to have members from Africa, China, Arab world, to share their point of view.
If all four members are to be elected simultaneously, please consider using a reasonable voting system that can achieve proportional results. In other words, don’t use block voting (where everyone gets 4 votes and can’t stack them on a single candidate).
I recommend the Single Transferable Vote for this sort of thing, but if a ranked ballot is unworkable then you can use the Single Nontransferable Vote instead.