Nominations for Local Communities Council

Shared from https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nominations-for-the-local-communities-council/39557

I can think of a few folk here who would be fine candidates. If you think this might be you, please think about putting your name forward.

Forwarded also to our community News Letter.

Bashing-om said: Forwarded also to our community News Letter.

The more places the better!

Let's hope we get some nominations.

I went to that link (various times) and never saw any way to apply, nor recommend anyone. I have the time, and was interested, but couldn't throw my hat in. It said to go to the mail-lists, but the mail-lists it said to go to were closed/private.

Now I seeing emails, asking me to vote on that... Qualifying me as a "voter", but no information on where to go to vote, or who is running???

I think I am a bit confused on this. I think there is a disconnect in the information flow with that.

MAFoElffen said: I went to that link (various times) and never saw any way to apply, nor recommend anyone. I have the time, and was interested, but couldn't throw my hat in. It said to go to the mail-lists, but the mail-lists it said to go to were closed/private.

Now I seeing emails, asking me to vote on that... Qualifying me as a "voter", but no information on where to go to vote, or who is running???

I think I am a bit confused on this. I think there is a disconnect in the information flow with that.

That is a jolly shame, because I for one would have been pleased to see you apply.

I will admit that I'd more or less forgotten about the whole thing, on account of stuff happening at home (health and stuff), and I just do not see myself as Council (of any kind) material. When I got the email, I followed the instructions for registering for voting, and when you do so, you end up on a page for voting which has all the names. I'm used to seeing a list of names of people I've heard of but don't know a lot about; but these were all names that were totally unfamiliar. I can provide them if that would help, but it doesn't address the underlying issue.

I think someone needs to know that there's a glitch in the system. I kind of wonder, if you (one) are so used to using mailing lists and so forth, that you forget that others can't see them/apply to them or find that kind of thing challenging.

Hey MAFoElffen -

I completed my vote - but how ? My memory a bit hazy. In the Email is the private link to the voting page. Open the voting page and click the "vote" box > candidate list; Arrange your order of preferences > vote now

[INDENT]hope this helps [/INDENT]

The email cam 4 days ago. I have that email, that asked me to register to vote. It does not have a link to vote anywhere in that one.

I registered that day. Got the confirmation for being confirmed for that at that page... But never received any email after that with a link to vote anywhere(???)

Dang.

MAFoElffen - Hey

Maybe give merlijn-sebrechts a shout: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-loco-council-elections-are-open/41114

-get this straightened out-

@Bashing-om -- Went there and told him. Thank you!

MAFoElffen said: The email cam 4 days ago. I have that email, that asked me to register to vote. It does not have a link to vote anywhere in that one.

I registered that day. Got the confirmation for being confirmed for that at that page... But never received any email after that with a link to vote anywhere(???)

Dang.

Same experience for me !

Frogs Hair said: Same experience for me !

I posted to him that you were affected also, so not an isolated event.

The emails he is sending me are addressed as no-reply, so just posting there to reply. I don't have a direct email address to him.

Here is the real story on that... Ubuntu Mebers should register with their [EMAIL="UserName@ubuntu.com"]UserName@ubuntu.com[/EMAIL] email address. (Period) That is what he had me go back and do...

This was my response to him: (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/re-ubuntu-loco-council-elections-are-open/41213/4)

I went back to that email and registered as [EMAIL="mafoelffen@ubuntu.com"]mafoelffen@ubuntu.com[/EMAIL]...

Here is where the confusion from that occurred:

If your launchpad email address is public, use that address to register. If your launchpad email address is not public, use <username>@ubuntu.com to register.

[EMAIL="mafoelffen@gamil.com"]mafoelffen@gmail.com[/EMAIL] is the registered address of my launchpad account and it is "public." That said to register to the public email address of the account, so I did...

That is also the email address that I get all correspondence and emails from launchpad... As an Ubuntu Member, one of the perks is our @ubuntu.com email address, but that only works for Members, who have set that up to redirect to an existing email address. (Is is a perk, but never was a requirement.)

All Ubuntu Members are required to register for a launchpad account... Follow the logic of that so far?

Are you saying that the voting is "only" to Members who have set up their @ubuntu.com account as a perk? See where that would exclude some Members? Taking that with twisted sense of humor, though is true.

I will pass the information on to the other Members at the Forum.

So I did that... But still have not received anything yet. He says that we have about another week to vote. That if anyone lese here has a problem, to get ahold of him via that link that Bashing-Om posted, or he gave me some alternate methods...

Still no email to vote. Time is ticking away for this to be too late.

The poll closes on 2024-01-08, which I interpret as meaning that we have nearly a fortnight still. Hopefully that's enough time to get this sorted out.

I will admit that I'm not familiar with any of the candidates; I've not quite resorted to throwing darts at the list, but it's close...

Seen the results posted. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/new-ubuntu-loco-council/41515 Were the number of voters really that low? Only 76 voted out of 548. Maybe 400+ ran into the same issues as those posted about here.

I voted, but don't remember how I voted.

Let's see how tyrannical they get.