Community Council/Council election Q4 2013/Candidate declarations
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Candidates for Q4 2013 Maemo Community Council elections
The following candidates intend to stand for election to the Maemo Community Council.
- Rüdiger Schiller / chemist
- Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw
- Joseph Charpak / jcharpak
- (TBD) / juiceme
- Niel Nielsen / nieldk
Candidate declarations
Rüdiger Schiller
From community mailing list [1]:
as it is getting close again (nomination period & candidates as well) I am nominating myself for another term.
Joerg Reisenweber
Joseph Charpak
From community mailing list [2]:
Hi I'm Joseph Charpak. On maemo.org I go by the rather predictable name of jcharpak. I am running for a seat on the Maemo Council.
I've been a proud owner of a 770 as well as an N800, and have purchased a 64GB N9 in the last year when it became available and reasonably priced in the U.S. I'm a programmer/analyst (that's just a fancy term for what used to be called a computer programmer) My area of expertise is database stuff, specially Oracle, sql and pl/sql, along with oracle Forms and oracle reports, none of which is available for Nokia Mids or smartphones (with the exception of sql in sqlite). I've dabbled in plenty of other languages (C, C++, java, python, ada!) but am not really fluent in any of them. I appreciate the work being done at openrepos.net but wish we could add an N9 section to the maemo.org autobuilder instead. Still it's good to have something as I believe Nokia announced it is not allowing new applications to be submitted to the Nokia Store. I like romantic dinners and long walks on the beach...just kidding I hate long walks on the beach. It's either really sandy or really rocky not to mention the whole walking part. I'd much rather stay at home, reading all sorts of technical blogs and dreaming of one day building a "trek" style game written in python and qml. I'm a big proponent of open source, else why would I be here? Please consider voting for me on the Maemo Council.
(I'm jcharpak and I approved this message)
JuiceMe
Niel Nielsen
This is my formal acceptance and request for participating in the upcoming council election.
My Maemo account username is NielDK and IRL Niel Nielsen. I have been an active member of this community for a good four years, and have been member of the council previously. Possibly it was the hardest time, since it was the transition from leaving a community that was regulated and sponsored by Nokia, and we had to form a council and set initial regulations / election of a legal board of director. I did not succeed very well during this period. There were a lot of internal disputes and fights between concil member / board members and directors. However, we got things started, and the council that was elected for the next period did a very good job in sorting out the mess. It is sad to see that none apparently wants to continue, but hopefully the next council will do even better. Secondly, why I am not happy about my period, was due to a load of personal issues, which I can say now have come to a (good) end, and I am getting hold of my life, and gaining more time to again be active member. I have contibuted within this community as an active member, helping other members with issues, solving problems that arose from Nokia stopping support for N9xx device. Also, I have been developing applications, utilities and libraries, that all now reside on openrepos - another great initiative to solve the lack of support/updates from Nokia. For the most, my work have been consisiting in developing improvements to kernel, but also tools and libraries that is useful for pentesting. I hope that I will be considered, and do feel asured that the next council will step up, and further improve our community and support for our devices, to have a life beyond the expectations of Nokia.
Thanks NielDK