Task:Community Council/Candidate declarations for September 2008

Candidates for Community Council Elections Sept 2008

Motivations: I have an intense interest in the tablets and the community around them. I'd like to help improve the community and the tablets by providing leadership and working to facilitate better-coordinated and more effective community action (like the maemo.org brainstorming sessions). I'd also like to help facility better communication between Nokia and the maemo.org community.

Motivations: I'm a senior software developer in the gaming industry with an intense passion for Linux and mobile devices. My day job's ideals spill over to the tablets ambitions, usually on a one to one basis. Good interface, great user experience, good visuals e.t.c. I feel that as a passionate user I can bring my professional experience to the tablet environment along with my motivation to make Maemo on mobile devices the number 1 choice.

Motivations: I've been interested in Maemo devices since about mid-2005, and bought a 770 the day the went on sale. Since then, I've been increasingly involved in the community - both on InternetTabletTalk and, increasingly, maemo.org.; I believe Nokia have yet to fully tap into the community that exists, and the community needs to help Nokia grow membership and activity within the Maemo ecosystem.; I want to push for Nokia to do more and more Maemo development in the open, with them *truly* having to justify why a component is closed. I want to have the community contribute more directly to the development process, whether in roadmapping; specification writing/review or testing of pre-released products.; The maemo.org community is growing: we need to ensure it keeps growing. I'm pleased to see that, already, some of the points I raised in "maemo.org: what next?" are coming about. I want to see the Council pushing this agenda to increase the level of dialogue happening at the Maemo *strategic* level between Nokia - as its corporate sponsor - and the maemo.org community - as the passionate, experienced, but currently undirected, community that it is.

Motivations: I have a vested interest in Maemo/maemo.org as a tablet user, UI designer, UX specialist, and developer. I am passionate about this community and desire to help it (us) succeed in both tablet-user community relations, tablet usability, and open-source software development.