An update from the Forums Council for May of 2012

 * Archiving Forums. Threads that have no activity for >12 months, will be archived every 6 months (in sync with the release cycle)

 * New Theme. TechnoViking has been hard at work creating a new theme for the Forum. It now matches the branding on most of the other Ubuntu web sites

 * Wiki Teams. [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/forestpiskie|elfy]] , has been working with the wiki team to convert tutorials from the Tips and Tutorials sub-forum to wki pages.

 * General Messages. [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Silver_Fox|s.fox]] thanked all those that added their support to her application to the Ubuntu Membership Board.

 * New Staff. We put off appointing any further staff until we discussed it amongst the staff a little more. We are trying to meet the Community Council guidelines, when it comes to appointing/electing new staff members.

 * Application Development Forum. mhall119, answered all of the remaining question the Forum Council had, before the new sub-forum is opened.

 * New Members. We elected 3 new Forums ubuntu members, please welcome [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/primefalcon|primefalcon]], [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/hakermania|hakermania]] and [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/sandyd|sandyd]].