Community Council/Council election Q2 2017/Candidate declarations
Feathers McGraw (Sam Hobbs)
Hi all, I'd like to announce my candidacy for the upcoming Maemo Community Council elections. You may know me as Feathers McGraw - I was a bit late to the TMO party, but like many before me it was the N900 that brought me in. I quickly found the forums to be a useful source of information, and a slightly less useful but nevertheless entertaining source of off topic chat. A couple of years ago, I bought a Jolla 1 to play with until the Neo900 arrived. Since then I've released a couple of apps for Sailfish, and have run it on a few different devices with community ports (Nexus 5, Fairphone 2). I must confess, I am currently running Fairphone Open Source OS (Android variant without Google Play services) on the Fairphone 2. I will understand if you don't want to elect me for this treasonous act! I'm currently employed as a Civil Engineer. What I know of programming, packaging and system administration is self taught. I find Linux really interesting, and enjoy passing on what I've learned to others (e.g. raspberry pi email server tutorials on my site). Whenever possible I make use of free software to host my own services instead of relying on third parties. Privacy, security and self-sufficiency are what motivate me to use Linux. I appreciate TMO for being one of the places where privacy and security are valued - much rarer in the mobile/handheld landscape than on desktop PCs. Sam (Feathers McGraw)
mosen (Timo Könnecke)
Dear community, thanks to the nomination i kindly received from wicket and reinob i step forward as a candidate. I would do my best to learn and execute community council duties so the time i already spend in this lovely international community could carry some fruits and i can give something back to thank for all the things i learned here in the past three years. kind regards, Timo Könnecke aka mosen
sicelo (Sicelo Mhlongo)
Hi After some consideration, I have decided to accept my nomination as a candidate for the Maemo Community Council. Like everyone else, I also have my share of personal commitments and other issues. However, I will be happy to give back to the community by handling Council duties as far as my circumstances will allow. I joined the community sometime in 2010, eventually obtaining my N900 the following year. Needless to say - this opened up a completely new world to me. For example, I had never before experienced what being in a community really meant. At the time I was still very new to Linux, and can say that Maemo taught me all I know today about Linux (maybe even computing in general). Unfortunately I do not have much technical know-how, but with the help of the community, I have been able to contribute by compiling a perl-enabled irssi and obdgpslogger. I also participate in testing, especially cssu-devel packages. Of course, I also enjoy interacting with the Maemo community as a whole on IRC and on talk.maemo.org by answering questions whenever I am able. I am looking forward to other ways to keep this great community alive. Sicelo
juiceme
Hello all fellow Maemoans. I have decided to re-run for Maemo Community Council in the ongoing elections. As it happens I have been in the Council already 7 successive terms, so I hope I do not need to write again such a detailed introduction as before. I hope that most of you remember me, if not, then I sure have not been active enough :) As a refresher, I will instead post a link to my previous announcement, things have not changed so much as it not being an accurate CV; http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2014-December/006123.html - Juice -