Task:Community Council/Candidate declarations for September 2008
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: The maemo.org community is growing: we need to ensure it keeps growing. I'm pleased to see that, already, some of the points I raised in "[http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/jaffa/2008/04/20/maemo_org_what_next maemo.org: what next?]" are coming about. I want to see the Council pushing this agenda to increase the level of dialogue happening at the Maemo *strategic* level between Nokia - as its corporate sponsor - and the maemo.org community - as the passionate, experienced, but currently undirected, community that it is. | : The maemo.org community is growing: we need to ensure it keeps growing. I'm pleased to see that, already, some of the points I raised in "[http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/jaffa/2008/04/20/maemo_org_what_next maemo.org: what next?]" are coming about. I want to see the Council pushing this agenda to increase the level of dialogue happening at the Maemo *strategic* level between Nokia - as its corporate sponsor - and the maemo.org community - as the passionate, experienced, but currently undirected, community that it is. | ||
| - | === | + | === Ryan Pavlik === |
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; Name | ; Name | ||
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| - | : None | + | : None |
| - | ;maemo.org username | + | ; maemo.org username |
| - | : [http://maemo.org/profile/view/ | + | : [http://maemo.org/profile/view/megabyte405/ megabyte405] |
; Motivations | ; Motivations | ||
| - | : I have | + | : I have been involved with the open-source community, starting with the AbiWord word processor, for several years now, and am a user of all three Nokia tablets. I look forward to fostering broader adoption of the Maemo-based devices through evaluation of community needs. As an AbiWord developer and also as a user, I see a disconnect between users, developers, and Nokia that is hampering developmental efficiency and leading to bad blood. |
=== Simon Pickering === | === Simon Pickering === | ||
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: I like hacking (e.g. DSP and Jazelle) and the Nokia tablets provide lots of scope, especially due to missing information/drivers/etc (e.g. PowerVR, IVA, EAP_* headers for direct DSP audio output). I'm very keen to establish closer links between the technical staff/groups at Nokia and the community developers who would like to enhance/expand the tablets' abilities. I would really like to have the community more heavily involved in emerging features of the internet tablets, with component alpha-/beta-testing and access to more information (if it can be arranged). It is nice to see that we (Nokia & the Community) have made progress on the communication and information side of things with e.g. the "Questions for Nokia" page (http://wiki.maemo.org/Questions_for_Nokia). | : I like hacking (e.g. DSP and Jazelle) and the Nokia tablets provide lots of scope, especially due to missing information/drivers/etc (e.g. PowerVR, IVA, EAP_* headers for direct DSP audio output). I'm very keen to establish closer links between the technical staff/groups at Nokia and the community developers who would like to enhance/expand the tablets' abilities. I would really like to have the community more heavily involved in emerging features of the internet tablets, with component alpha-/beta-testing and access to more information (if it can be arranged). It is nice to see that we (Nokia & the Community) have made progress on the communication and information side of things with e.g. the "Questions for Nokia" page (http://wiki.maemo.org/Questions_for_Nokia). | ||
| + | === Tim Samoff === | ||
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| + | : Tim Samoff | ||
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| + | ; Company affiliation | ||
| + | : None w/ Nokia | ||
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| + | ;maemo.org username | ||
| + | : [http://maemo.org/profile/view/timsamoff/ timsamoff] | ||
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| + | ; Motivations | ||
| + | : I have a vested interest in Maemo/maemo.org as a tablet user, UI designer, UX specialist, and developer. I am passionate about this community and desire to help it (us) succeed in both tablet-user community relations, tablet usability, and open-source software development. | ||
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Revision as of 13:30, 2 September 2008
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Candidates for Community Council Elections Sept 2008
Ryan Abel
- Name
- Ryan Abel
- Company affiliation
- None
- maemo.org username
- GeneralAntilles
- Motivations
- I have an intense interest in the tablets and the community around them. I'd like to help improve the community and the tablets by providing leadership and working to facilitate better-coordinated and more effective community action (like the maemo.org brainstorming sessions). I'd also like to help facility better communication between Nokia and the maemo.org community.
Jamie Bennett
- Name
- Jamie Bennett
- Company affiliation
- None
- maemo.org username
- baloo
- Motivations
- I'm a senior software developer in the gaming industry with an intense passion for Linux and mobile devices. My day job's ideals spill over to the tablets ambitions, usually on a one to one basis. Good interface, great user experience, good visuals e.t.c. I feel that as a passionate user I can bring my professional experience to the tablet environment along with my motivation to make Maemo on mobile devices the number 1 choice.
Andrew Flegg
- Name
- Andrew Flegg
- Company affiliation
- None relevant to Maemo
- maemo.org username
- Jaffa
- Motivations
- I've been interested in Maemo devices since about mid-2005, and bought a 770 the day the went on sale. Since then, I've been increasingly involved in the community - both on InternetTabletTalk and, increasingly, maemo.org.
- I believe Nokia have yet to fully tap into the community that exists, and the community needs to help Nokia grow membership and activity within the Maemo ecosystem.
- I want to push for Nokia to do more and more Maemo development in the open, with them *truly* having to justify why a component is closed. I want to have the community contribute more directly to the development process, whether in roadmapping; specification writing/review or testing of pre-released products.
- The maemo.org community is growing: we need to ensure it keeps growing. I'm pleased to see that, already, some of the points I raised in "maemo.org: what next?" are coming about. I want to see the Council pushing this agenda to increase the level of dialogue happening at the Maemo *strategic* level between Nokia - as its corporate sponsor - and the maemo.org community - as the passionate, experienced, but currently undirected, community that it is.
Ryan Pavlik
- Name
- Ryan Pavlik
- Company affiliation
- None
- maemo.org username
- megabyte405
- Motivations
- I have been involved with the open-source community, starting with the AbiWord word processor, for several years now, and am a user of all three Nokia tablets. I look forward to fostering broader adoption of the Maemo-based devices through evaluation of community needs. As an AbiWord developer and also as a user, I see a disconnect between users, developers, and Nokia that is hampering developmental efficiency and leading to bad blood.
Simon Pickering
- Name
- Simon Pickering
- Company affiliation
- None
- maemo.org username
- lardman
- Motivations
- I like hacking (e.g. DSP and Jazelle) and the Nokia tablets provide lots of scope, especially due to missing information/drivers/etc (e.g. PowerVR, IVA, EAP_* headers for direct DSP audio output). I'm very keen to establish closer links between the technical staff/groups at Nokia and the community developers who would like to enhance/expand the tablets' abilities. I would really like to have the community more heavily involved in emerging features of the internet tablets, with component alpha-/beta-testing and access to more information (if it can be arranged). It is nice to see that we (Nokia & the Community) have made progress on the communication and information side of things with e.g. the "Questions for Nokia" page (http://wiki.maemo.org/Questions_for_Nokia).
Tim Samoff
- Name
- Tim Samoff
- Company affiliation
- None w/ Nokia
- maemo.org username
- timsamoff
- Motivations
- I have a vested interest in Maemo/maemo.org as a tablet user, UI designer, UX specialist, and developer. I am passionate about this community and desire to help it (us) succeed in both tablet-user community relations, tablet usability, and open-source software development.