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== Candidates for Q4 2013 Maemo Community Council elections ==

The following candidates intend to stand for election to the Maemo [[Community Council]].

# [http://maemo.org/profile/view/chemist/ Rüdiger Schiller / chemist]
# [http://maemo.org/profile/view/joerg_rw/ Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw]
# [http://maemo.org/profile/view/jcharpak/ Joseph Charpak / jcharpak]
# [http://maemo.org/profile/view/juiceme/ Jussi Ohenoja / juiceme]
# [http://maemo.org/profile/view/nieldk/ Niel Nielsen / nieldk]

[http://maemo.org/vote/results.php?election_id=35 Election results ]

== Candidate declarations ==

=== Rüdiger Schiller ===

From community mailing list [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2013-November/005927.html]:

<blockquote>''as it is getting close again (nomination period & candidates as well) I am nominating myself for another term.''</blockquote>

So how about we get on a boat next term?

=== Joerg Reisenweber ===

From community mailing list[http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2013-November/005923.html]:

On popular demand I accept that nomination to do another term on council. I 
announce I have very little time to assign to this duty due to high workload 
from other projects and RL responsibilities. Up to the valued voters, I guess 
I don't need to introduce myself again

=== Joseph Charpak ===

From community mailing list [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2013-November/005918.html]:

Hi I'm Joseph Charpak. On maemo.org I go by the rather predictable name of jcharpak. I am running for a seat on the Maemo Council.

I've been a proud owner of a 770 as well as an N800, and have purchased 
a 64GB N9 in the last year when it became available and reasonably 
priced in the U.S. I'm a programmer/analyst (that's just a fancy term 
for what used to be called a computer programmer) My area of expertise 
is database stuff, specially Oracle, sql and pl/sql, along with oracle 
Forms and oracle reports, none of which is available for Nokia Mids or 
smartphones (with the exception of sql in sqlite). I've dabbled in 
plenty of other languages (C, C++, java, python, ada!) but am not really 
fluent in any of them. I appreciate the work being done at openrepos.net 
but wish we could add an N9 section to the maemo.org autobuilder 
instead. Still it's good to have something as I believe Nokia announced 
it is not allowing new applications to be submitted to the Nokia Store. 
I like romantic dinners and long walks on the beach...just kidding I 
hate long walks on the beach. It's either really sandy or really rocky 
not to mention the whole walking part. I'd much rather stay at home, 
reading all sorts of technical blogs and dreaming of one day building a 
"trek" style game written in python and qml. I'm a big proponent of open 
source, else why would I be here? Please consider voting for me on the 
Maemo Council.

(I'm jcharpak and I approved this message)

=== Jussi Ohenoja ===

From community mailing list [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2013-November/005917.html]:

Hi, I am juiceme and I am running for Maemo Community Council.
I have been part of the community here for relatively short time, just 
17 months. That is not a long time in a human life but surely enough to 
fit into a community centered around common interests.

My spark into joining maemo.org came when I purchased a N9 device, my 
first linux-based mobile phone. Previously I had owned Symbian devices 
since early nineties but I never did any SWDEV on those as my interests 
were on big iron. N9 was the first small embedded device that had the 
same tools I was used to working with so naturally I was delighted on 
the possibilities it offered.

I have degrees in EE & ME, and some university courses in Math before 
dropping out due to having not enough time to do family/work/university 
simultaneously :)
My current occupation is SW development for Telecommunication Systems, 
and I have previously done RF design, HW design and Test System design 
in previous jobs. I have worked in this industry for about 2 decades.
My passion is Free Software, Libre software even, and I am known to be 
fairly vocal FS advocate on my workplace. I use exclusively Linux/Unix 
variants in my work and on my own time, and am known for pestering 
people to drop proprietary/legacy OS'es and switch to Linux.

My SW skills include c, python, test automation and tool creation. I 
like kernel work and prefer to use console over any GUI's.

=== Niel Nielsen ===

From community mailing list [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2013-November/005915.html]:

This is my formal acceptance and request for participating in the upcoming
council election.

My Maemo account username is NielDK and IRL Niel Nielsen.
I have been an active member of this community for a good four years, and
have been member of the council previously.
Possibly it was the hardest time, since it was the transition from leaving
a community that was regulated and sponsored by Nokia, and we had to form a
council and set initial regulations / election of a legal board of director.
I did not succeed very well during this period. There were a lot of
internal disputes and fights between concil member / board members and
directors.
However, we got things started, and the council that was elected for the
next period did a very good job in sorting out the mess.
It is sad to see that none apparently wants to continue, but hopefully the
next council will do even better.
Secondly, why I am not happy about my period, was due to a load of personal
issues, which I can say now have come to a (good) end, and I am getting
hold of my life, and gaining more time to again be active member.
I have contibuted within this community as an active member, helping other
members with issues, solving problems that arose from Nokia stopping
support for N9xx device.
Also, I have been developing applications, utilities and libraries, that
all now reside on openrepos - another great initiative to solve the lack of
support/updates from Nokia.
For the most, my work have been consisiting in developing improvements to
kernel, but also tools and libraries that is useful for pentesting.
I hope that I will be considered, and do feel asured that the next council
will step up, and further improve our community and support for our
devices, to have a life beyond the expectations of Nokia.

Thanks
NielDK

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