Community Council/Council election September 2012/Candidate declarations
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Revision as of 21:18, 28 September 2012
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Candidates for September 2012 Maemo Community Council elections
Candidates for September 2012 foundation Board of Directors elections
- Craig Woodward / woody14619
- Iván Gálvez Junquera / ivgalvez
- Niel Nielsen / nieldk
- Randall Arnold / Texrat
- Tim Samoff / timsamoff
Candidate declarations
woody14619
I'm Woody14619 on TMO and currently a member of the Maemo Council.
During my last run for Council, my stated intention was to increase the visibility and transparency of the operation of Council. During my term, I saw to it that there were weekly open meetings with minutes presented to the community on the Council blog (usually in a timely fashion). I also got involved in a number of other activities that were Council and community related, and hope that those efforts have been (and will continue to be) seen as positive steps taken to help the community.
Unfortunately, my day job has begun to cycle up for it's typical busy season of October through March. Part of the reason I agreed to run for the current cycle was because I knew I would have the time to dedicate in the summer period. I equally know that my time will be limited for the next cycle.
As a result, I do not feel it would be beneficial to the community for me to run for Council again this cycle. I will not have the time to invest as I did this cycle, beyond offering the minimal service of creating meeting minutes. If someone else nominates me, I will stand for the position, but I will not nominate myself knowing the limited time I will have for the position.
I would however, like to nominate myself for the Board, with that caveat that my participation would be minimal for the October to March time frame. That alone will probably find me last in the list, meaning I would not be on the Board unless several others nominate themselves at the last minute. None the less, I would like to apply.
Regardless of the outcome of the election, I pledge to offer any aid I can to the next Council and/or Board, and will make efforts to continue to participate in any public meetings of both bodies.
ivgalvez
I'm known as ivgalvez at TMO and I'm currently member of the Maemo Council. I joined this community in September 2011, just after receiving my N900, and I started to participate in it, with a passion and interest I haven't felt before in any other open source community I knew.
As current Council Member, I feel that I have the responsibility to help finishing the transition process to a self sustained NFP entity that we have started. I am one of the three signers in the articles of incorporation, with Woody14619 and SD69, and I think that I should help in the first steps of foundation as an independent entity.
I also joined the Council with high hopes for fixing the long-standing problems we have with the infrastructure, but we haven't succeeded yet. In fact, this was my main goal when I run for latest Council election, now I only hope that with a real entity (Board) sustaining the community, we could have better results in the upcoming months.
Considering the low number of candidates we have at this moment, I have finally decided to run for both groups, Board and Council, despite my public preference about having separate groups.
nieldk
I'm known as nieldk at TMO and I'm currently member of the Maemo Council. I joined this community just after receiving my N900, and I started to participate in it when development for mobile backtrac started. Since i later obtained the n9 my focus is on the Harmattan platform,especially kernel development.
As current Council Member, I feel like my fellow councelars, that I have the responsibility to help finishing the transition process to a self sustained NFP entity that we have started.
I also joined the Council with high hopes for better relationship with Nokia and more focus on the Harmattan platform. Due to the new situation in Nokia, this has largely failed, since focus had to shift to keep our community at all. Also, lately, I ran into some serious personal matters in my relationship with my wife, which have taken quite a serious amount of time to solve -happy to say it has settled now to a more stable situation.