19:14 #startmeeting Hello and welcome to the Ubuntu Membership Review Board meeting for 04 September 2025. The wiki page for the Review Boards is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/Boards 19:14 Meeting started at 19:14:20 UTC. The chair is soumyadghosh. Information about MeetBot at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology 19:14 Available commands: action, commands, idea, info, link, nick 19:14 Hello and welcome to the Ubuntu Membership Review Board meeting for 04 September 2025. The wiki page for the Review Boards is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/Boards 19:14 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. 19:14 The format for the meeting is as follows: We will go through the list of applicants one by one, by date of application (FIFO). 19:14 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. 19:14 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. 19:14 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!) 19:14 Now, with any further ado, let's get started with the first applicant... 19:18 gjolly Please introduce youself (within 1-5 sentences). And please share the link of your launchpad account and the link of the application at Discourse. The board members will review it accordingly. 19:19 Hello, I'm gjolly. I'm a software engineer and I started contributed to Ubuntu over the past 4 years. I contributed to packaging, documentation and on various forums. Most of my contributions are technical. I often participate to local community events. Here is my discourse post https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gauthier-jolly-membership-application/66547 19:19 Here is my LP page: https://launchpad.net/~gjolly 19:21 gjolly: Short version: Please keep in mind that Ubuntu != Canonical; If as an emplyee should give Membership then there would be no need of employees to apply to the Board. You have your recompense from Canonical, expand on your activities that contribute to the Ubuntu community that we should grant you Membership. 19:21 Thanks a lot gjolly, for sharing the details. I'd now like to request my fellow members to review their application, and proceed to ask questions one by one. 19:22 Until then, I’d like to kindly request anyone who wishes to endorse the applicant to please share their testimonials. 19:22 @Bashing-om I completely understand. This is why I'm only applying to the Membership 4 years after joining Canonical. At first, I wanted to make sure I had contributed enough to the community before going through this process. 19:24 gjolly: How long have you offered support on AskUbuntu - and why do we not see more on Discourse ? 19:25 What are you plans for future community involvement? 19:26 AaronPrisk: We are just starting - in the questioning phase. 19:27 I'm been contributing on AskUbuntu for a few years, I didn't make a lot of contributions there neither. 19:27 I love technical work and sharing my knowledge with others. It's true that most of my contributions are related to packaging and that I could be more present on Discourse. 19:29 It would be awesome to have you contribute some on discourse in the support section it is the official support venue for Ubuntu now 19:30 gjolly: For sure - your packing works do trickle down to the users level :D 19:30 You have made awesome contributions in the technical field at Canonical. 19:30 @Bashing-om I agree, I will make sure to do that more! 19:31 @Wild_Man thanks! 19:33 @Wild_Man being able to contribute to Ubuntu as part of my day job is something I really cherish. 19:34 @gjolly I was particularly impressed by the API you maintain to query Debian package info — that’s really valuable! 🙌 19:34 I’m a little unsure, though, whether contributions more related to Azure integrations and documentation should be considered as community contributions, or if they lean more towards company-focused work. Would love to hear others’ thoughts on this distinction. 19:37 gjolly As per the norms, each Ubuntu Community Membership application should ideally have at least 2 testimonials. I notice there’s currently only one endorsement — is there any specific reason for that? 19:37 gjolly: Documentation - way back when - was what won me over to Ubunntu; before it became so fragmented - how does your efforts on the docs relate at the user level ? 19:39 soumyadghosh: I just wasn't aware of this, I thought at least one was required. 19:41 @Bashing-om I'm not sure I understand your question. To me documentation is central to the life of a distro. If a lot of people choose Ubuntu today for AI/ML it's because the documentation of all the ML projects on Gh include a section for Ubuntu. 19:41 gjolly Would you be able to share a bit about your role at Canonical? It’ll help us better understand how your work there connects (or differs) from your community contributions. 19:42 @soumyadghosh my team published all the VM images of Ubuntu on the Public Clouds. 19:43 I am mostly working on Azure but my work frequently covers other Clouds. 19:45 Understandably, it can be hard to distinguish some of my work between Canonical and Community. But for example, my role officially didn't involve any packaging work. 19:45 I took the liberty to create a IRC channel #ubuntu-cloud 19:45 (back when we were on IRC) 19:46 gjolly I think it would have been helpful if these kinds of details were included more clearly in your membership application itself. That way, it gives a fuller picture of both your role and your community contributions. 19:46 Most of my contribution to the documentation are of my own initiative (eg the Find Ubuntu on Azure page that was later done for other clouds). 19:47 We do understand that, but I am a bit unsure how writing documentation specifically for Azure directly counts as a contribution to the Ubuntu Community. Could you kindly clarify how this connects with Ubuntu community benefit? 19:49 My work on sev-snp: https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-server-documentation/pull/344 while related to some of the stuff we do on Azure, is completely unrelated with my position. 19:50 soumyadghosh: I want to think that users of Ubuntu are less prone to confusion when it comes to use Ubuntu on the Clouds and thus it will help reduce the amount of support that the community will have to provide. 19:53 gjolly Thanks a lot for sharing your perspective and clarifying the details. 🙏 19:53 I'd just like to ask one final question before I wrap up my review… 19:54 Hey gjolly! 19:54 First - I love the mention of the compiz cube in your application. I have fond memories of showing it off to lure users to our world. :) 19:54 I see in your work listed that you helped fix a bug with qemu and have interest in contributing more to that virt world. Do you feel there are other platforms either physical or virtual that we should be putting more focus on? 19:54 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? 19:57 @AaronPrisk yeah I would like to see more involvement with newer hypervisor technologies like cloud-hypervisor or firecracker. 19:57 I was not aware of firecracker! Thanks for sharing! :) 19:58 @soumyadghosh Yes I do. 19:59 o/ 20:00 Thank you. I'd now like to request my fellow members to vote on the motion. 20:00 hold on a sec pls? 20:00 just a minute should be enough, reading through the irc backlog 20:00 Sure 20:02 "I often participate to local community events" is that some local things in Paris? 20:02 gjolly: I'm not up to speed about any LoCo activity in French/Paris, is there anything running smoothly there? 20:03 (sorry I joined just now, I think there was a mixup regarding the TZ!) 20:03 No but I go here every year: https://capitoledulibre.org/ (sorry it's in FR only I believe) 20:04 I gave a talk two years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGxcbBxydq4&t=1474s 20:04 ic 20:04 And I have two talks accepted this year. 20:05 (It's on the WE so it's not work :D) 20:08 I'm good to vote 20:11 #voters mapreri lucyllewy soumyadghosh AaronPrisk77 Bashing-om 20:11 Current voters: AaronPrisk77, Bashing-om, lucyllewy, mapreri, soumyadghosh 20:11 #vote on gjolly membership application 20:11 Please vote on: on gjolly membership application 20:11 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') 20:12 +1 I am persuaded that you do make significant contributions to Ubuntu. 20:12 +1 I am persuaded that you do make significant contributions to Ubuntu. received from Bashing-om 20:12 -1 I find that you are on the right track, but just not quite there. I think I'd like to see some more community recognition before making it formal here. 20:12 -1 I find that you are on the right track, but just not quite there. I think I'd like to see some more community recognition before making it formal here. received from mapreri 20:12 As a note, I love the comment Simon wrote about you asking publicly technical questions, since that's something that personally annoys me A LOT when I realize a cabal of canonical devs discuss things keeping the wider community in the dark when there is no reason for it to be. 20:12 +1 20:12 soumyadghosh: Wild_Man is not in the #voters 20:12 Yeah right, very sorry. 20:13 #voters all 20:13 Everyone can now vote 20:13 Wild_Man: vote again? 20:13 0 20:13 0 received from Wild_Man 20:13 #voters Wild_Man Bashing-om lucyllewy soumyadghosh mapreri 20:13 Current voters: Bashing-om, Wild_Man, lucyllewy, mapreri, soumyadghosh 20:13 +1 I am persuaded that you do make significant contributions to Ubuntu. 20:13 +1 I am persuaded that you do make significant contributions to Ubuntu. received from Bashing-om 20:13 Wait a min everyone, let's restart the vote once again. Very sorry for the mistake 20:14 mh why? 20:14 No worries it is your first time 20:14 -1 I see lots of promise, but I would like you to try to get more visible and endorsed contributions to help us see more clearly. I think you're doing really good work and I look forward to being able to vote again in a few months. 20:14 -1 I see lots of promise, but I would like you to try to get more visible and endorsed contributions to help us see more clearly. I think you're doing really good work and I look forward to being able to vote again in a few months. received from lucyllewy 20:14 soumyadghosh: people can re-vote on meetingology, and it counts only the last vote for any given person afaik 20:15 Okay, let's see 20:16 -1 This is a solid start, gjolly, and I appreciate the work you’ve done so far. However, I’d like to see more contributions in areas that actively involve the community and directly support its growth. 20:16 -1 This is a solid start, gjolly, and I appreciate the work you’ve done so far. However, I’d like to see more contributions in areas that actively involve the community and directly support its growth. received from soumyadghosh 20:16 +1 I am persuaded that you do make significant contributions to Ubuntu. 20:16 +1 I am persuaded that you do make significant contributions to Ubuntu. received from Bashing-om 20:19 #voters all 20:19 Everyone can now vote 20:19 0 20:19 0 received from AaronPrisk 20:20 o 20:21 #endvote 20:21 Voting ended on: on gjolly membership application 20:21 Votes for: 1, Votes against: 3, Abstentions: 2 20:21 +1 I am persuaded that you do make significant contributions to Ubuntu. 20:21 Motion denied 20:23 Thank you everyone for your time. I understand your points and I will try to be more involved on discourse and with the community in general! 20:23 (also incidentally, I use Azure for work and plenty of Ubuntu images, so guess I make a lot of use of your paid work :P) 20:24 gjolly We all truly appreciate the hard work you’ve done so far. I’m personally very impressed with the API that you maintain — it’s a valuable contribution. As others have already mentioned, we’d like to see more of your active contribution and direct involvement in the community. I believe you’re on the right track, and I look forward 20:24 to seeing your continued growth in the Ubuntu community. 20:24 You've done some awesome work! Please, please, please reapply again in the near future :) 20:25 We’d be happy to review your application again in about six months. In the meantime, we encourage you to continue building on your great work and look forward to seeing more of your sustained and community-focused contributions. 20:25 #endmeeting