Welcome, new members! I'm excited to see the project gaining momentum once again. The future looks bright indeed.
Bryan On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Kevin Godby <god...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > In late 2009, Benjamin Humphrey founded the Ubuntu Manual Project and > served as its leader until late 2010. As project leader, Ben handled > much of the marketing and recruiting efforts for the project. In > addition, he served as the de factor editor in chief for the first two > editions of the manual. > > While searching for a suitable replacement, we decided to split Ben's > responsibilities into two roles: a marketing/recruiting leader and an > editor in chief. > > Since we only had two applicants for the 'project leader' role, we > discussed and decided to abandon the project leader role and instead > create a marketing and recruiting team that both applicants would > join. The two applicants, Jason Odoom (jasono) and Micheal Harker > (MichaelH), agreed. > > The marketing/recruitment team's primary goals are to promote and > publicize the project and to attract and recruit new team members. > > We also received four applicantions for the editor in chief role. > After reviewing the applications and chatting with the two applicants > in attendance, we took a vote. Rick Fosburgh (rickfosb) won the > majority of votes and will be the editor in chief for Getting Started > with Ubuntu 11.04. > > In addition to all of the duties you'd expect of an editor (checking > spelling, grammar, style, etc.), Rick will be working with the rest of > the team to ensure that the manual is released in a timely fashion. > > Please help us welcome our Jason, Michael, and Rick to our team. > > —Kevin (godbyk) and John (c7p) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
