General information

The Regional Membership Boards are responsible for approving new Ubuntu members, in the following geographical areas:

• Americas

• Europe, Middle East and Africa

• Asia and Oceania

Click on the above links to add yourself to the agenda for consideration by one of the regional boards.

Meetings are weekly, and take place in the early evening for each timezone, although the day will vary a little each week, to ensure that as many membership candidates as possible can attend.

Each Board should have an appointed secretary, who can vary as often as the board wishes, to carry out the following tasks:

1. Coordinate meeting times and ensure that these are published on the Fridge calendar.

2. Add successful membership candidates to the Launchpad group.

3. Report successful membership candidates to the UbuntuWeeklyNews and add a short summary for each member (which should be taken from the candidate's personal wikipage).

If there is a contentious or disputed membership application, it can be referred to the CommunityCouncil.

The term length of members of the Membership Boards is 2 years.

Best practices

We want to collect best practices of the RMBs here:

• If you can't sufficiently judge contributions from applicants, follow up with other Membership Boards and finish the application process over email.
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