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| - | I'm Svetlana Tkachenko. I speak English and Russian, and participate as a translator for a number of free/libre projects. Last year I discovered the Free Software Foundation and joined as a member, which opened me a world of licensing issues and software freedom gaps. Mobile world is one of these gaps and I see the Maemo project contribute a diverse ecosystem of free software to the mobile world even after it was run over by the transition of Nokia to Microsoft.
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| - | I was developing for Firefox since around 2009 and then, this time on Maemo, for Fennec in 2010. I have some knowledge of C, Perl, GTK, Qt, a beginner knowledge of distro packaging. [https://savannah.gnu.org/people/resume.php?user_id=95979 This page] lists some of my past projects (it is not very up-to-date about which of the stuff was mobile). At home I use a Debian laptop with GNUstep on it (learning to develop for it is a long slow process). I participate in citizen journalism project Wikinews which is internationally scoped and also I can code in Perl while sitting upside down on a rock at 3AM.. (yes, I had read enough books and had enough exercise to be a little fluent in the language, and I also know how to write proper unit tests for a few things.)
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| - | For Maemo, I and Wikiwide had co-developed, together, a few applications, including Python stuff for Modrana, new application for keyboards virtransim, a theme and extensions for Fennec (the Firefox browser), an eyesight check application called [http://maemo.org/packages/view/eye4/ eye4]. Eye4 is a nice application originally was in HTML and JavaScript but the Maemo version is what I had written in Qt. (Now I am seeing a nice copyright header in this app which makes no sense so I will update it at a point soon...) I and Wikiwide both use IRC and I am well familiar with the chat protocol and a few chat bots for it. My timezone is UTC+10.
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| - | Wikiwide suggested me to run for Council elections this year. In accepting the nomination I have a few motivations. Not only I would like to catch up on the things which changed over the last 2-3 years while I was not actively contributing -- I expect to learn a lot of new people, mobile UX, and more about the Maemo and MeeGo platforms -- but also I would like to help the project by
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| - | * helping to set up up-to-date translatable documentation and international outreach for the project. Most documentation is in English or German now and the infrastructure for translating is currently limited to "dump both texts in the same wiki page".
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| - | * helping to test localization of the Maemo applications and help developers set up their applications for localization where it is missing.
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| - | * picking a time for meetings which is convenient for both me and other members of the Council, and engaging other people to join to make it a "everyone meeting" more than a "council meeting".
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| - | Please ask me questions during the election period and I would be glad to answer.
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