With the recent influx of new developers, emgent, jbeitler and Phobos have decided on a new hierarchical system of permission. The following titles have been created and are listed below with their corresponding roles. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks,
nUbuntu Development Team

Lead Developer - (Also serves as the Chairperson of the Board)
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- Oversees the entire development cycle

Lead Developers - (Also serve as nUbuntu Board Members)
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- Serves the same role as a Main Developer with the addition to being a member of the nUbuntu Board

Main Developers
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- Can commit directly in official PPA archive
- Can vote on the nUbuntu politic road (Must be approved by the board)
- Can vote and approve new Contributing Developers/Apprentice Contributors/Mirror Maintainers/Researchers and Honorary Members

Contributing Developers
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- Can commit only directly to nubuntu-repo-testing. (To commit in official packages they need to be approved by the nUbuntu Main Developers)
- Sponsor new candidates for lower positions

Apprentice Contributors
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- Can commit in nubuntu-repo-testing while Contributing Developer is sponsoring
- Eventually after board approval becomes a Contributing Developer


Research Team
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- Write tools that can be voted on in open developer meetings
- In charge of researching new tools
- In charge of researching hardware and patches

Wiki Maintainers
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- Required to maintain the official nUbuntu Wiki

Mirror Maintainers
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- Required to maintain their mirror

Honorary Members
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- Assist in support on IRC/Forums

NOTE:
Meetings
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nUbuntu Technical Board - ATTENDEES: Lead/Main Developers
Developer Meetings - ATTENDEES: Everyone with a title
Open Meeting - ATTENDEES: OPEN

Candidacy
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In order to be a potential candidate, you must have a sponsor.
- Contributing Developers and higher can be a sponsor
- Only main developers can vote their approval

Our development team has been hard at work recently to bring you the latest and greatest release of nUbuntu, codenamed "8.12 Instigating Insecurity".

Not only does this contain up to date versions of the already included software, it has packed on roughly 250mb on the ISO meaning a ton more tools to better your hacking experience.

Please feel free to use and distribute this new version, and as always report any bugs or requests in our forums at http://forums.nubuntu.org.

Also, feel free to join us on irc.FreeNode.net #nUbuntu.

MD5: 575214f413c02a4ba636feede99ecc31
SHA1: 6a8d3d201fcd2312e9fb6fc15b550488b88a52a9

Heres a little preview:


Head on over to our downloads page to grab your copy of nUbuntu!
Thanks,
nUbuntu Development Team

EDIT: We've been dugg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/nUbuntu_8_12_...http://digg.com/linux_unix/nUbuntu_8_12_Instigating_Insecurit

Hello again security enthusiasts,

This Sunday Night, 23rd November 2008 @ 21.00 (9PM) EST (24th November 2008 @ 2.00 UTC) there will be an open meeting in which anyone interested in nUbuntu can attend.

Agenda:

• Repository
• Additional applications
• Bugs
• Fluxbox theme
• Fluxbox menu
  

Hey everybody, with the recent huge spike in interest, meetings need to be established on a more regular frequent base.

All are welcome to these open meetings, please post your availabilities and ideas below and we'll try to accommodate the mass.

Thanks,
Brendan

The nUbuntu team has partnered with the Italian company Gerix IT Security Solutions, who is our official Technical partner. They'll be providing live sessions and video tutorials for nUbuntu certifications.

With that being said, please welcome our two newest developers to our team.

• Emanuele Gentili
• Giulio Rizzo