To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
-Subject: Call for nominations for technical committee seats
+Subject: Call for (self-)nominations for technical committee seats
First and foremost, the technical committee would like to thank Bdale
Garbee and Steve Langasek for serving on the committee in addition to
"Term limit", both their terms will expire on December 31st 2015, and
there will be two empty seats which can be filled.
-To fill these seats, we are soliciting nominations. To nominate
-yourself or someone else, please send e-mail to
-debian-ctte-private@debian.org with the subject "CTTE Nomination of
-loginname", where loginname is the nominee's Debian account login.[1]
-Please let us know in the body of the e-mail why the nominee would be
-a good fit for the committee, specifically instances where the nominee
-was able to help resolve disagreements, both technical and
-non-technical, which you were a party to or observer of.
+To fill these seats, we are soliciting nominations, including
+self-nominations. To nominate yourself or someone else, please send
+e-mail to debian-ctte-private@debian.org with the subject "CTTE
+Nomination of loginname", where loginname is the nominee's Debian
+account login.[1] Please let us know in the body of the e-mail why the
+nominee would be a good fit for the committee, specifically instances
+where the nominee was able to help resolve disagreements, both
+technical and non-technical.
Being a member of the committee does require a time commitment.
Members should be able to follow e-mail discussions on an ongoing
basis and respond within a couple of days so that discussions
-progress. Members should ideally be able to spend 10 hours a month
+progress. Members should ideally be able to spend 10 hours a month
for relatively busy months, but typical time requirements will be
less.