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Community Council/Council election September 2012/Candidate declarations

Revision as of 21:23, 28 September 2012

Candidates for September 2012 Maemo Community Council elections

1. Iván Gálvez Junquera / ivgalvez
2. Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw

Candidates for September 2012 foundation Board of Directors elections

1. Craig Woodward / woody14619
2. Iván Gálvez Junquera / ivgalvez
3. Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw
4. Niel Nielsen / nieldk
5. Randall Arnold / Texrat
6. 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.

ivgalvez

since I'm short of time right now (alas this won't change for whole term, I promise), I just like to post a "I accept" here, since ivgalvez pushed me by mentioning there's only 5h left to do so. Plus I add a self-nomination for board, since I think there's much of synergy to be exploited and board is the more enjoyable position in my book anyway.

I'm not promising I'll invest more of my time than available (which is pretty little, maybe even as small as 2h/week) into either of both, and I'm accepting just to not let maemo down. No self-advertisements here right now, those who know me will also know whether to vote for me or not. Just one statement: In my book both council and board are *services* brought to community since community needs them. I'm not interested in any "internal" power (definitely falsely) attributed by some to either of those positions, I will exploit all the power/opportunities that such a position might give, to bring maemo ahead or at least keep it alive. But I'm neither maemo's master nor your referee, and I hope you'll call me out on that if ever my notion regarding that seems to have changed. I'm ready to help as much as my spare time and knowledge allows, and that's it. I'm not promising to become a better diplomat, I know my soft skills are poor regarding that, please excuse me already. Nor will I hold back with my notions regarding particular details of development or maintenance. I think and hope I could still act as a normal community member regarding that, and I hope you won't read every of my comments like I had a council hat on, it doesn't fit my head ;-). Now it's up to you.

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.

Texrat

timsamoff