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The Community Council has recently implemented some changes to community governance processes which it believes reflect a significant improvement in one area of community governance: applications for Ubuntu membership.

The Ubuntu project is rapidly expanding and the previous process for approval of new Ubuntu members has been struggling to keep up with the increased participation. The list of pending membership applications was so long that the Community Council cannot focus on other issues. Also, it is often difficult or impossible for potential new members to attend Community Council meetings which do not coincide with their availability in a particular timezone.

As a result three regional membership boards have been created to consider applications from contributors to the project for Ubuntu membership. The boards are:

Americas
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Asia / Oceania

These boards will meet each week at staggered times and days, to ensure that as many candidates as possible have a chance to attend a meeting which fits their schedules. If necessary, candidates from one region may attend a meeting of a board for a different region, if this suits their schedule better.

The Community Council will continue to oversee the process for the first few months of its operation. New members will be reported in the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

For more information, and if you are interested in applying for Ubuntu membership, please visit the membership wiki page.

The change will leave the Community Council free to take a more active role in its review of other aspects of the community. The Community Council now meets according to a fixed timetable every two weeks.

Edubuntu at Technology In Education Conference
The Colorado Local Community Team manned a Canonical/Ubuntu booth at the Technology in Education Conference in Copper Mountain. The general consensus was that the Ubuntu session turned out to be “the cool session” amongst all of the conference attendees for that day, nearly one thousand classroom teachers, administrators and technology enthusiasts from around Colorado and surrounding states. Edubuntu was the main focus and was run on an HP server in a thin-client configuration.
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Do You Edubuntu?
Jeff Hastings test drives the open source suite
School Library Journal, 7/1/2007

Edubuntu, the Linux-based operating system and open-source educational software suite, is so startlingly good in so many ways that it’s difficult to know where to begin. So let’s start here: it’s free. That’s right, you can download Edubuntu from the Web site or request a copy or two on CD and they’ll ship it. All the way from Belgium. Free!

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