maemo.org team


maemo.org team

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Webmaster

Niels Breet
(X-Fade)

Among other things, Niels is the administrator of the Maemo servers.

Docmaster

Dave Neary
(dneary)

The goal of the docmaster is to enable co-production of documentation - by removing any barriers and by organising the community around that goal.

The ongoing tasks of the docmaster are:

  • Tracking of documentation bugs in bugzilla
  • Co-ordination of maintenance work in the maemo.org wiki
  • Identification of points which can be improved in terms of availability and access to documentation resources related to Maemo
  • Maintaining elections

Bugmaster

Andre Klapper
(andre)
(at Openismus GmbH)

Taking care of maemo.org Bugzilla, mainly:

  • Triage/Clean up reports and get them into a valuable state whenever needed
  • Import and keep in sync with Nokia's internal bug database
  • Maintenance (Adding / setting new products, milestones, 3rd party apps etc)
  • Bugsquad community building (e.g. having Bugdays, #maemo-bugs on IRC)

Debmaster

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Jeremiah Foster
(Jeremiah)


Specifically the debmaster:

  • Works with developers who want to submit their software to maemo.org's repositories.
  • Provides documentation on Debian's deb format and the various files in a package.
  • Helps develop a maemo.org toolset, based on Debian tools but modified for Maemo.
  • Co-operates with upstream (Debian) and downstream (users) as well as sidestream (Nokia).
  • Maintains an open communication channel with the community using the various community channels: #maemo, ITt (talk.maemo.org), mailing lists, wiki, etc.
  • Works with Nokia and the Community Council to develop and define packaging policy.
  • Suggests innovations and developments of the Maemo packaging format.

Talkmaster

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Reggie Suplido
(Reggie)

Distmaster

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Carsten V. Munk
(Stskeeps)

The primary role as a distmaster is defined as facilitating the development of Maemo variants (Mer, Diablo/Fremantle Community Variants, etc):

  • Developing collaboration spaces for developers of Maemo variants
  • Mentoring and engaging developers in order to move the Maemo platform and variants ahead
  • Communicating with stakeholders (Nokia, distributions implementing the Maemo platform, users and developers)

Secondary role is serving as a paid system developer for the maemo.org community:

  • Developing fixes and features for the Maemo OS & variants either on his/her own based on the input of maemo.org community council
  • or through activating, mentoring for and collaborating with community developer(s) in order to get it completed in collaboration with upstream developers.

Community Council

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Randall Arnold
(Texrat)
Alan Bruce
(qole)
Graham Cobb
(gcobb)
Matthew Lewis
(penguinbait)
Valério Valério
(VDVsx)
Council Chair

Community processes and documentation

A list of community-related processes and documentation managed or generated by the maemo.org team:

  • Karma - documentation for how users get karma points
  • Social news - a description of the social news algorithm