== Meeting information ==
 * #ubuntu-meeting: 2200 UTC Ubuntu Membership Board, 03 Apr at 21:36 — 22:22 UTC
 * Full logs at [[http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-04-03-21.36.log.html]]



== Meeting summary ==

 * '''RoozbehShafiee''' (21:52)
''Vote:'' RoozbehShafiee to obtain Ubuntu membership. (Denied)
''Vote:'' thomi to obtain Ubuntu membership (Carried)
''Vote:'' mihir to obtain Ubuntu membership (Carried)



 * [[http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-04-03-21.36.log.html#129 thomi to obtain Ubuntu membership]]
  * Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 5/0/0)
   *  Voters iulian, PabloRubianes, hggdh, Pendulum, cjohnston
 * [[http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-04-03-21.36.log.html#183 mihir to obtain Ubuntu membership]]
  * Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 5/0/0)
   *  Voters iulian, PabloRubianes, hggdh, Pendulum, cjohnston
 * [[http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-04-03-21.36.log.html#75 RoozbehShafiee to obtain Ubuntu membership.]]
  * Motion denied (For/Against/Abstained 0/4/1)
   *  Voters iulian, PabloRubianes, hggdh, Pendulum, cjohnston
== Vote results ==




== Done items ==

 * (none)



== People present (lines said) ==

 * iulian (45)
 * meetingology (35)
 * RoozbehShafiee (30)
 * mihir (21)
 * thomi (17)
 * popey (17)
 * cjohnston (14)
 * hggdh (13)
 * PabloRubianes (8)
 * Pendulum (7)



== Full Log ==


 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.

 21:36 <meetingology> 

 21:36 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick

 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



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