Tag Archives: Election

Call for votes: Vacant Developer Membership Board seat

By nhandler | Published: 2010-10-20

The Developer Membership Board has started a vote to fill the vacant position. The Developer Membership Board is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers. It evaluates prospective Ubuntu developers and decides when to entrust them with developer privileges. The vote closes at Friday, 2010-11-05 23:59 UTC. Ballots got mailed to all members of […]

Emmet Hikory replaces Richard Johnson on Ubuntu Community Council

By pleia2 | Published: 2010-10-19

Due to a range of other commitments, Richard Johnson has stepped down from the Ubuntu Community Council. The current members of the CC want to thank Richard Johnson for all the work he put into Ubuntu Governance. He will be missed. Everybody wishes him all the best on his next endeavors. Emmet Hikory is replacing […]

Ubuntu IRCC Nominations

By nhandler | Published: 2010-10-18

I’m writing to you to let you all know that in November the terms of 2 of our IRCC members are coming to an end and the Community Council will be appointing or reappointing members for the 2 vacant positions. The 2 IRCC members that are coming to the end of their terms are Pici […]

Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.10

By Ubuntu News Contributor | Published: 2010-10-01

Releases are big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big they are. I mean, you may think it’s a long haul to release a single Linux package or application, but that’s just peanuts to a Linux distribution release. Because of this, we must work our way up to it, incrementally…bit by bit…milestone by […]

Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-08-18

The secret of happiness … is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. -Cyril Connolly The Ubuntu team is […]