The first Americas Council Membership Approval meeting for 2009 took place this January 6th/7th where we accepted the following new members:
PrivateVoid (PrivateVoid)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrivateVoid
LP: https://launchpad.net/~privatevoid
PrivateVoid is the Vice President of the New York LoCo team (elected December 11th, 2008 for a two year term) and has done a tremendous job in building a healthy and thriving LoCo Team via a high level of enthusiasm and organizing local events. A number of individuals came out to show their support for PrivateVoid and testified about not only his great LoCo Team work but also great work being done on the forums with Beginners Team.
Outside of Ubuntu, PrivateVoid is a member of the K-12 Open Source Community and is active in promoting Linux and Ubuntu in Education.
Based on PrivateVoid's impressive LoCo Team, community work, and contributions on the forums, we're pleased to accept PrivateVoid as a Ubuntu Member.
Shaun Dennie (vor)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ShaunDennie
LP: https://launchpad.net/~vor
Shaun Dennie is a long time Unix hacker and has been using Ubuntu since 5.10. Dennie's experience is clearly represented by the number of tutorials written on the Ubuntu Forums as well this contributor's participation in the forum's Beginners Team and Forum Moderator Team.
Dennie reports really enjoying being a part of the community and would like to take the next step to get even more involved as a developer.
Based on Dennie's documentation efforts, peer feedback, contributions on the forums, and plans for the future, we're pleased to accept Shaun Dennie as a Ubuntu Member.
Connor Imes (Rocket2DMn)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rocket2DMn
LP: https://launchpad.net/~rocket2dmn
Connor Imes has been using Ubuntu since Feisty and reports being actively contributing since day 1. Notable areas of contribution include the forums (especially the Beginners Team and as Staff) and wiki documentation. Besides his great work on the forums and impressive documentation efforts, Imes also frequents the Launchpad bug tracker and Launchpad Answers tracker to help triage bugs and answer questions.
The Summer of Documentation was an effort by a handful of Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team members to help get the Community Docs up to date by working with the Ubuntu Documentation Team, particularly the Wiki Team. The Beginners Team Wiki Focus Group encouraged communication between the teams. Imes was a key player in this effort.
Based on great work on the forums, solid peer feedback, strong documentation efforts, and work on launchpad, we're happy to accept Connor Imes as a new Ubuntu Member.
Eric Hammond (erichammond) [1]
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EricHammond
LP: https://launchpad.net/~esh
Eric Hammond applied for Ubuntu Membership based on his primary contributions to Ubuntu of building, maintaining, documenting, promoting, and supporting of public virtual machine images for running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2. Hammond reported on his efforts to foster an Ubuntu on EC2 community which is now around 700 registered members and growing and his work with the Ubuntu server team in an advisory and testing capacity.
Hammond had very kind feedback keys members in the Server team such as Soren Hansen and Rick Clark.
Based on his work in the community on Ubuntu on EC2 and feedback, we're happy to receive Eric Hammond as a Ubuntu Member.
Andres Mujica (andres-mujica)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndresMujica
LP: https://launchpad.net/~andres-mujica
Andres Mujica's main contribution to Ubuntu is at Bug triaging as member of the bugsquad and is currently working towards becoming a member of the Ubuntu bugcontrol group.
Mujica previously applied for Ubuntu Membership on a previous occasion but was asked to return at a later date as it was felt that he did not meet the requirements for Ubuntu Membership at that time.
Based on more work as a bug triager and peer feedback, we accepted Andres Mujica as a Ubuntu Member.
David Mandala (DavidM)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DavidMandala
LP: https://launchpad.net/~davidm
David Mandala introduced himself as generalist, and computer and electronics geek who enjoys coding and evangelizing Ubuntu Mobile Linux. As the manager of the Ubuntu Mobile team and project manager of the Ubuntu Mobile and MID Projects, he has naturally made significant contributions to Ubuntu Mobile and the Ubuntu Mobile community at large.
Based on his work on Ubuntu Mobile and outstanding peer feedback, we're happy to accept David Mandala as a Ubuntu Member.
Cheers,
PrivateVoid (PrivateVoid)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrivateVoid
LP: https://launchpad.net/~privatevoid
PrivateVoid is the Vice President of the New York LoCo team (elected December 11th, 2008 for a two year term) and has done a tremendous job in building a healthy and thriving LoCo Team via a high level of enthusiasm and organizing local events. A number of individuals came out to show their support for PrivateVoid and testified about not only his great LoCo Team work but also great work being done on the forums with Beginners Team.
Outside of Ubuntu, PrivateVoid is a member of the K-12 Open Source Community and is active in promoting Linux and Ubuntu in Education.
Based on PrivateVoid's impressive LoCo Team, community work, and contributions on the forums, we're pleased to accept PrivateVoid as a Ubuntu Member.
Shaun Dennie (vor)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ShaunDennie
LP: https://launchpad.net/~vor
Shaun Dennie is a long time Unix hacker and has been using Ubuntu since 5.10. Dennie's experience is clearly represented by the number of tutorials written on the Ubuntu Forums as well this contributor's participation in the forum's Beginners Team and Forum Moderator Team.
Dennie reports really enjoying being a part of the community and would like to take the next step to get even more involved as a developer.
Based on Dennie's documentation efforts, peer feedback, contributions on the forums, and plans for the future, we're pleased to accept Shaun Dennie as a Ubuntu Member.
Connor Imes (Rocket2DMn)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rocket2DMn
LP: https://launchpad.net/~rocket2dmn
Connor Imes has been using Ubuntu since Feisty and reports being actively contributing since day 1. Notable areas of contribution include the forums (especially the Beginners Team and as Staff) and wiki documentation. Besides his great work on the forums and impressive documentation efforts, Imes also frequents the Launchpad bug tracker and Launchpad Answers tracker to help triage bugs and answer questions.
The Summer of Documentation was an effort by a handful of Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team members to help get the Community Docs up to date by working with the Ubuntu Documentation Team, particularly the Wiki Team. The Beginners Team Wiki Focus Group encouraged communication between the teams. Imes was a key player in this effort.
Based on great work on the forums, solid peer feedback, strong documentation efforts, and work on launchpad, we're happy to accept Connor Imes as a new Ubuntu Member.
Eric Hammond (erichammond) [1]
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EricHammond
LP: https://launchpad.net/~esh
Eric Hammond applied for Ubuntu Membership based on his primary contributions to Ubuntu of building, maintaining, documenting, promoting, and supporting of public virtual machine images for running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2. Hammond reported on his efforts to foster an Ubuntu on EC2 community which is now around 700 registered members and growing and his work with the Ubuntu server team in an advisory and testing capacity.
Hammond had very kind feedback keys members in the Server team such as Soren Hansen and Rick Clark.
Based on his work in the community on Ubuntu on EC2 and feedback, we're happy to receive Eric Hammond as a Ubuntu Member.
Andres Mujica (andres-mujica)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndresMujica
LP: https://launchpad.net/~andres-mujica
Andres Mujica's main contribution to Ubuntu is at Bug triaging as member of the bugsquad and is currently working towards becoming a member of the Ubuntu bugcontrol group.
Mujica previously applied for Ubuntu Membership on a previous occasion but was asked to return at a later date as it was felt that he did not meet the requirements for Ubuntu Membership at that time.
Based on more work as a bug triager and peer feedback, we accepted Andres Mujica as a Ubuntu Member.
David Mandala (DavidM)
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DavidMandala
LP: https://launchpad.net/~davidm
David Mandala introduced himself as generalist, and computer and electronics geek who enjoys coding and evangelizing Ubuntu Mobile Linux. As the manager of the Ubuntu Mobile team and project manager of the Ubuntu Mobile and MID Projects, he has naturally made significant contributions to Ubuntu Mobile and the Ubuntu Mobile community at large.
Based on his work on Ubuntu Mobile and outstanding peer feedback, we're happy to accept David Mandala as a Ubuntu Member.
Cheers,
--
Cody A.W. Somerville
Software Systems Release Engineer
Custom Engineering Solutions Group
Canonical OEM Services
Cell: 506-449-5899
Email: cody.somerville@canonical.com
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