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rabelg5 at gmail

Sep 22, 2009, 3:07 AM

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Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates

Since nobody seems to be asking, I'll go ahead and kick things off
(some of these have been covered in the announcement emails, but I'll
go ahead and ask them explicitly). ;)

1. Care to share a little history about yourself and why you want to
serve on the council?

2. Is there any particular experience or event that helped you decide
to run?

3. What do you believe qualifies you to serve on the council?

4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?

5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?

6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo
Community today?

7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve
on?

8. Finally, you suckers have _no_ idea what you're getting into.
Ehehehe. *eg*

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crashanddie at gmail

Sep 22, 2009, 3:22 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 [at] gmail> wrote:
> 8. Finally, you suckers have _no_ idea what you're getting into.
> Ehehehe. *eg*

So that's why no-one in the previous Council presented their candidatures again.

On another note, will any of the candidates be present at the Maemo
Summit in Amsterdam next month, and if so, what will be your main
focus, and/or presentations if you have any.

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andrew at bleb

Sep 22, 2009, 4:10 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:07, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> 1. Care to share a little history about yourself and why you want to
> serve on the council?
>
> 2. Is there any particular experience or event that helped you decide
> to run?
>
> 3. What do you believe qualifies you to serve on the council?
>
> 4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?
>
> 5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?
>
> 6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo
> Community today?
>
> 7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve
> on?

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:22, Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers
<crashanddie [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> On another note, will any of the candidates be present at the Maemo
> Summit in Amsterdam next month, and if so, what will be your main
> focus, and/or presentations if you have any.

Thanks to Ryan for kicking this off. I was going to do similar and I
am going to write a blog post summarising your answers tomorrow
(Wednesday, 23rd September) evening (at about 2000 GMT). Answers would
therefore be appreciated by 1900 GMT[1].

In addition to the above, could all the candidates please answer my question:

9. What do you think of the maemo.org sprint process? Have you ever
attended one of the IRC meetings? If so, what did you think? How could
the process be improved?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

[1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=23&year=2009&hour=19&min=00&sec=00

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liquid at gmail

Sep 22, 2009, 4:30 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 [at] gmail> wrote:

> Since nobody seems to be asking, I'll go ahead and kick things off
> (some of these have been covered in the announcement emails, but I'll
> go ahead and ask them explicitly). ;)
>
> 1. Care to share a little history about yourself and why you want to
> serve on the council?
>

I have been active in the community for the last 18months hacking away at my
liqbase app and learning about various ideas and interactions on the
devices.
i have wanted to develop hand held simple apps for a long time and did not
find a viable solution until I discovered the Nokia devices running maemo.

in my dayjob (which I no longer have..), i have spent the last 10 years as a
visual basic developer in a small company maintaining numerous projects and
ensuring our customers had the best experience possible in a difficult,
supposedly uncomputerisable environment with complex parameters.

i have always enjoyed hacking and testing and have never been one to turn
down a challenge.

>
> 2. Is there any particular experience or event that helped you decide
> to run?
>

yes, a great many people talking in IRC and pestering me to stand!

> 3. What do you believe qualifies you to serve on the council?
>

i have a great amount of experience around all parts of the maemo sphere, I
have spoken to and discussed different aspects of the community and system
as a whole and have a good relationship with many of the members of both the
community and Nokia staff.
by working together we can build better applications and give a stronger
experience to the end users and stand proud at our accomplishments.
the relationship nokia has with the maemo community is a shining beacon for
collaboration that many companies are envious of and this bodes well for the
future.

>
> 4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?
>

i would like to see the community working together and standing towards a
common goal.

>
> 5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?
>

strong leadership, and lots of bacon.
there is no point in talking about making changes, actions speak louder than
words.
even if things do not work or are incorrect in their implementation, we
should try anyway.

>
> 6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo
> Community today?
>

toolkit infighting.

maemo is a community built on linux.
the principle doctrine of linux is freedom of choice.

you are free to choose the components needed to build the system you want.

each of the toolkits available has different strengths, weaknesses and
impracticalities, but each has a common thread:

good solid applications can be written in any of them.

stop fighting about which is being used and that one is not identical to the
other and start writing the best applications you can with the tools you are
comfortable.

I am a firm believer in good solid code and would hate to see hard work
thrown away just because one side or the other forced a decision on us.
the toolkits can coexist and when a new replacement application comes to the
surface (using whichever toolkit) it will be embraced by the community and
will replace the functionality of the old one.
spending time rewriting existing solid code "just because" is not a good use
of time, energy or resources and leads to bugs and problems being
re-evaluated all over again.

>
> 7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve
> on?
>

i hope the community council will serve as community leaders and bring focus
and direction to the coding and collaboration efforts.
hoping to find a path to bring hard working developers documentors artists
designers and users who are eager to get involved and point them in the
right direction to best make use of their skills and energies.

> 8. Finally, you suckers have _no_ idea what you're getting into.
> Ehehehe. *eg*
>

you were the beta council - you had more bugs to fix than us.
thank you for your hard work Ryan and the other esteemed members of the
previous councils.

(additional question from jaffa)
9. What do you think of the maemo.org sprint process? Have you ever
attended one of the IRC meetings? If so, what did you think? How could
the process be improved?

i like the sprint processes and irc meetings, it works for different groups,
however the timing of the meetings and organisation required to bring
everyone together around household commitments and timezones has always been
hard.
i believe the current members of the council and nokia/maemo employees find
them a good way to kickstart their activities for the period and they get
good results.
we should however have a look at whether there is a need to optimize this
process and see if there are any other additional methods for collaboration.
meetings in person are always beneficial though entirely impractical on a
weekly or even monthly basis, but I believe it would be benficial to setup
in person sessions for the principle members to get together and hammer out
major planning steps for the next cycle.
the summit is one such massive meetup!
i look forward to seeing all of you guys there.

gary birkett

open source
open heart
open future

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vdv100 at gmail

Sep 22, 2009, 8:46 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 [at] gmail> wrote:

> Since nobody seems to be asking, I'll go ahead and kick things off
> (some of these have been covered in the announcement emails, but I'll
> go ahead and ask them explicitly). ;)
>

Good initiative, a bit late IMO ;) .

>
> 1. Care to share a little history about yourself and why you want to
> serve on the council?
>

From my announcement:

I joined the Maemo Community about an year ago. After the development of
BlueMaemo, I received some very positive feedback from the community, that
made me stick around.

In the last year, I actively contributed to our community as a programmer,
but also organized some initiatives. The big one's were the Google Summer of
Code participation and more recently the schedule of the community days of
the Maemo Summit (I really like to organize 'things' :) ).

I want to serve in the council because our community gave me so much, and I
strongly believe that I can help our community to improve even more.

>
> 2. Is there any particular experience or event that helped you decide
> to run?
>

The nomination and all the support that I've received :) .

> 3. What do you believe qualifies you to serve on the council?
>

I've a good knowledge of the Maemo ecosystem, and I've done facilitator
roles in the past, that in my opinion can help me and the community if I'm
elected.
I also have good relationship with the majority of the members of our
community.

> 4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?
>

I would like to see a strong community, with tons of new members from
different fields working together as a big Open Source ecosystem.

>
> 5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?
>

A lot can be done, here are some simple steps:

*Initiatives to bring more members to our community.
*Facilitation of methods and tools to improve the collaboration within our
community.
*Motivate people and try to reward each valuable collaboration as much as we
can.

> 6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo
> Community today?
>

Not trying to offend anyone here, I'll be sincere.

One of the biggest problems that I see in our community comparing to others
that I know well, is that we talk too much, there's always a lot of
discussion around certain topics but only a few take actions to change
things.
Some discussion is good, in order to reach good decisions, but sometimes
will be better if we 'canalize' our time to improve the community, instead
of waste it in useless discussions.
There's always simple things that can be done, and most of them can be made
by anyone, no need to be a coder.

Other problem is the uncertainty that we have all the time about some Nokia
decisions, but this have been improving and I strongly believe that will
improve even more in the future, at least I'll fight for that :)

> 7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve
> on?
>

Mostly a facilitator role, like a bridge between Nokia and our community,
keeping everything open all the time, and as I said on 5. push our community
to a higher level of collaboration.

> 8. Finally, you suckers have _no_ idea what you're getting into.
> Ehehehe. *eg*
>

Thanks for the encouragement and for the very good work that you've done so
far.
I really expect that you continue as a activity collaborator inside our
community :) .

9. What do you think of the maemo.org sprint process? Have you ever
attended one of the IRC meetings? If so, what did you think? How could
the process be improved?

I've attended the IRC meetings whenever I can. I pretty much agree with the
current model, of course some things can be improved.
IMO we need to find new ways to involve more community members in the sprint
process, and perhaps improve the the sprint/ongoing tasks communication
channels a bit, a lot was done in this topic recently, but we can improve it
a little more.

Cheers,

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vdv100 at gmail

Sep 22, 2009, 10:33 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers <
crashanddie [at] gmail> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 [at] gmail> wrote:
> > 8. Finally, you suckers have _no_ idea what you're getting into.
> > Ehehehe. *eg*
>
> So that's why no-one in the previous Council presented their candidatures
> again.
>
>
Sorry, I missed that one.

On another note, will any of the candidates be present at the Maemo
> Summit in Amsterdam next month, and if so, what will be your main
> focus, and/or presentations if you have any.
>

I will be there, looking forward to meet some members of our community :)
I will also give a lightning talk about BlueMaemo.

Cheers,

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texrat at ovi

Sep 22, 2009, 10:35 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

Thanks for submitting this Ryan. My answers below (I also added Andrew's question):

> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Ryan Abel" <rabelg5 [at] gmail>
> To: "maemo-community-request [at] maemo community development" <maemo-community [at] maemo>
> Subject: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:07:48 -0400
>
>
> Since nobody seems to be asking, I'll go ahead and kick things off
> (some of these have been covered in the announcement emails, but I'll
> go ahead and ask them explicitly). ;)
>
> 1. Care to share a little history about yourself and why you want to
> serve on the council?

I've shared this already but I'll summarize here. I'm a longtime product developer and more recently information manager/analyst who was highly inspired by the internet tablets. I was first exposed to them as a Nokia engineer responsible for their production quality, and after realizing their potential I decided to push for broader use and adoption. Frustrated at how slow internal gears turned, and chancing upon InternetTabletTalk.com where developers expressed their own frustration at Nokia's seeming indifference, I resolved to be a voluntary bridge between Nokia and ITT.

I want to serve because now that I am no longer with Nokia I am looking for another way to stay engaged with these amazing products and even more amazing community members. I hope that council membership will motivate me to get back into the trenches.

>
> 2. Is there any particular experience or event that helped you decide
> to run?

Just recent deep reflection. A few members had urged me to run in the past, and again this time, and I realized that refocusing myself would provide the necessary time. I already use it, I just need to reallocate it, and I think this would be a great way.

>
> 3. What do you believe qualifies you to serve on the council?

Passion for the products, a love for interacting with other cultures, a strong desire to learn more about Linux and FOSS in general, high interest in programming and data management, and just a general love of people.

I have many years of leadership experience, including serving, supporting and indirectly leading 400 logistics application users worldwide for Nokia-- which meant dealing with many cultures and timezones. I have formal training in local and virtual leadership as well. I also have inside experience with the tablet products as the former QA engineer largely responsible for the near-flawless launch of the N800. I don't let my ego get in the way of idea-sharing and am highly tolerant of (and even enjoy) of diversity.

>
> 4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?

At a higher level of engagement with Nokia. I believe progress is being made, and I am excited at the prospects.

>
> 5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?

I am working on a presentation to that effect, and I believe I have gathered some very useful material. I have managed to sum up the singlemost important need (IMO) which is "Listening without judgment". More to come!

>
> 6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo
> Community today?

Ego and resistance to ideas. Many ideas of a brainstorming nature are met with immediate resistance which discourages participation. I want to find ways of moving past that.

>
> 7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve
> on?

Facilitator, bridge-builder, feather-smoother, bucket-carrier

>
> 8. Finally, you suckers have _no_ idea what you're getting into.
> Ehehehe. *eg*

Oh, I might. ; )

9. What do you think of the maemo.org sprint process? Have you ever
attended one of the IRC meetings? If so, what did you think? How could
the process be improved?

Good question. I am inexperienced here and looking to learn.

>
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Sep 22, 2009, 11:41 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

Contrary to what Mr. "CrashAndDie" stated, there's one poor sucker for
punishment who was on the previous council and is running again. But
honestly, I won't mind if I'm not elected. I've got a few bruises from this
last round, too. But I was told that I should run again by the same person
who put me up to it the first time, so I'm doing it again.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:07, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 [at] gmail> wrote:

4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?
>
> 5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?
>
> 6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo Community
> today?
>
> 7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve on?
>

I personally think the biggest problem with the Maemo Community is the
biggest problem with any community; it's the people.

People are so messy, noisy, argumentative, cliquey, and unpredictable that
it makes the community frequently very frustrating, stressful, and
overwhelming.

On the other hand, the people *are* the community. So I guess we'll work
with what we've got. And what we've got is pretty good, I would say. This
community is better than most I've been in.

I'm very proud to be a part of this great community.

There's one thing I'd like to see happen as the community matures; I'd like
to see the fragmentation (continue to) decrease. I'd like to see the mailing
lists, IRC, and the forums come closer together.

I see quite a bit of progress in this area. I hope to see more in the
future.

As for the role of the council, I think that the council's role has become a
lot clearer to me lately. I hope to see the council continue to act as the
community's proxy to Nokia and the "outside world" when the whole community
can't be involved, and I hope to see the council help Nokia understand and
communicate to the community. This is most important when sensitive
information is involved.

Oh, the council is excellent training for learning what you can and cannot
say when dealing with sensitive information.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:22, Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers <
crashanddie [at] gmail> wrote:

On another note, will any of the candidates be present at the Maemo Summit
> in Amsterdam next month, and if so, what will be your main focus, and/or
> presentations if you have any.
>

I'll be interviewing Ari Jaaksi regarding Nokia and the Maemo community.

I'm also looking forward to attending the sessions, meeting lots of people
that I've only met online, and drinking some beer.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Andrew Flegg <andrew [at] bleb> wrote:

> 9. What do you think of the maemo.org sprint process? Have you ever
> attended one of the IRC meetings? If so, what did you think? How could the
> process be improved?
>

Well, I'm not going to post any links, but I started my first stint on the
council with a unpleasant bang; I wasn't happy with the sprint process and I
didn't phrase my displeasure very well. It caused quite a mess.

Since then, the process has improved, but I still would like some way to see
the progress of each sprint task by clicking on a button. It would be really
nice to see all the Quaiku updates for that sprint task when you click on
that sprint task ID...

--
enthusiast, n. "One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what
engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar fervor of mind; an ardent
and imaginative person."

stephen.gadsby at gmail

Sep 23, 2009, 7:39 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

> 1. Care to share a little history about yourself and why you want to
> serve on the council?

For the past eleven years, I've worked in higher education information
technology, where I enjoy assisting users, identifying and customizing
technological solutions to meet their needs. I'm adaptable, and over
time as needs have changed, my job responsibilities have shifted
through a wide range of IT areas. Additionally, I often provide a
bridge, "translating" between other information technology staff
members and end users and bringing people together for collaboration.

I enjoy doing similar activities in the Maemo community. With my bug
jars, I try to make a growing sea of information hidden away in a
complex rapidly and easily accessible to the community, and I'm
looking at ways to achieve similar goals in other areas.

This community keeps giving, and I keep benefiting from it. I want to give back.

> 2. Is there any particular experience or event that helped you decide
> to run?

Not particularly. It's something I'd thought about, and encouragement
from several community members convinced me to throw my hat in the
ring.

> 3. What do you believe qualifies you to serve on the council?

I'm an active member of the community who wants to do more.

> 4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?

Growing--in size, strength, and cohesiveness.

> 5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?

Growth in size isn't in question. Maemo 5 and the N900 are making sure
of that. They're not even released yet, and we're already seeing an
influx of new community members, which means new skills and talent.

The release of past Maemo devices also brought new community members,
of course. However, the degree will be sharply different this time.

Anytime a group sees a flood of new members, there's a period of
adjustment and cultural shift, and some signs of friction from that
are already appearing. I'm interested in working to reduce that
friction so our community continues to grow stronger, avoiding speed
bumps.

> 6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo
> Community today?

Please see my answer to #5 above.

> 7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve
> on?

Coordination. Collaboration. Information collection and dissemination.
Encouragement.

> 8. Finally, you suckers have _no_ idea what you're getting into.
> Ehehehe. *eg*

That's not a question; that's an ominous declarative statement, that
is! Who let you in here, anyway?

> 9. On another note, will any of the candidates be present at the
> Maemo Summit in Amsterdam next month, and if so, what will be
> your main focus, and/or presentations if you have any.

I will be attending the Summit, though I will not be presenting this
year. My goal will be to attend sessions, talk to people, learn,
convey information to the greater community who couldn't attend, and
help bring people together for collaboration.

> 10. (was 9.) What do you think of the maemo.org sprint process? Have you
> ever attended one of the IRC meetings? If so, what did you think?
> How could the process be improved?

Unfortunately, I've had to miss a few sprint meetings due to
scheduling conflicts, but I attend as many as possible. Though I
haven't been on the Council, and I haven't had sprint tasks, I still
enjoy attending the meetings as doing so has helped me learn the
process and follow the status of projects.

During the past months, there's been a great deal of exploration of
reporting methods in search of a process that maximizes the quality
and frequency of status reports to the community while minimizing
those reports' impact on "real work" by the reporters. I don't think
we've found an ideal method yet, and I don't have one to suggest. I
simply support the exploration process and want to see continued
improvements come from it.
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Sep 25, 2009, 3:13 AM

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Re: Election: September 2009 - Questions for Candidates [In reply to]

I realise it is probably too late to make much difference but, as I have been
travelling, here is a late reply. Hopefully some voters did at least read
either my earlier email or the Wiki page.

> > 1. Care to share a little history about yourself and why you want to
> > serve on the council?

I am a hobbyist developer, who works on things that interest me and, I hope,
may be useful to others. I am very excited about the Maemo community both in
terms of the devices and what they can do and the way in which Nokia has
tried to create a community.

> > 2. Is there any particular experience or event that helped you decide
> > to run?

I believe that the introduction of the N900 and the messages Nokia has given
about the future of Maemo mean that this will be a time of big expansion for
the community both in terms of developers and users. There will be exciting
times and there will be challenges to face and I believe I can help make a
contribution to these challenges.

> > 3. What do you believe qualifies you to serve on the council?

I have been an active developer in the community for a long time, I am not
slow to express my opinions and I try to make constructive suggestions. My
professional background combines development and architecture in embedded and
real-time systems with, more recently, a move into marketing. I believe I
can bring insights from both the hobbyist developers as well as understand
the drivers of more commercially oriented developers, some of whom may choose
to be active in the Maemo community instead of just part of Forum Nokia.

> > 4. Where would you like to see the Maemo Community in 6 months?

Bigger. More developers. More inclusive: with active members ranging from
power users, small developers, larger open source projects and, even, some
commercial organisations, including non-free software. While I am a strong
supporter of free software I support it from a desire for freedom, which
includes allowing people to run non-free software if they wish.

I also want to see the community provide ways to continue to support the
existing devices. As those devices become available cheaply, they will make
excellent introductions to the community for younger developers and we need
to find ways to support developers and users of those devices.

> > 5. Do you have any specific ideas about how to get us there?

As the N900 goes into full launch we need to review all aspects of what worked
well and what didn't about creating and porting applications for Fremantle.
That includes things like the SDK Alpha and Beta programs, Nokia's Stars
program, device availability, responsiveness to community feedback and bugs,
autobuilder, extras-testing and all the other things that have been done to
encourage and help developers. There are no easy answers but we need to
understand what has worked well for the community and/or for Nokia, what we
want to change immediately (if anything) and what we should be planning to do
for Harmatten.

> > 6. What do you believe to be the biggest problem facing the Maemo
> > Community today?

I hope it is going to be the accelerating pace of introduction of new devices,
new features and new software! In the short term it is getting applications
available for Fremantle. In the medium term it will be the move to Qt.

> > 7. What role do you envision for the community council you would serve
> > on?

After the great work done by the first councils, it is time to review what
works well and what doesn't and make sure we have the tools and processes in
place to support the large growth of the community over the next couple of
years. This includes working closely with Nokia, who provide funds and
support for the community, as well, of course, as the R&D for the devices and
base software.

I would also like us to start thinking about how the community will evolve and
whether, at some time, we see it becoming more independent of Nokia. It is
not obvious to me what the right answer is here and I am keen to encourage
some debate.

> > On another note, will any of the candidates be present at the Maemo
> > Summit in Amsterdam next month, and if so, what will be your main
> > focus, and/or presentations if you have any.

I will be at the Summit. I am not presenting -- I hope to learn both about
technologies but also about people's experience in the community.

> 9. What do you think of the maemo.org sprint process? Have you ever
> attended one of the IRC meetings? If so, what did you think? How could
> the process be improved?

I have not been involved and have not attended any of the IRC meetings. This
is certainly one of the areas to review -- is it working well? can it be
improved?

Graham
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