Hi,

I want to confirm my nomination by Rob Bauer for the Council Elections.

The brief introduction follows:

I am 33 years, old, married, have two kids, and are currently located in Belgrade, Serbia.
My professional occupation keeps me the world of propitiatory software development and have no commercial interests in maemo.
I have experience with Embedded Linux development of arm based devices, but my main expertise is security and cryptography. I have mixed feelings about Nokia's behaviour in the past, but overall I don't regret buying and owning 770 and N810.

I've will try to summarise the reasons for accepting nomination.

As we all know Nokia has decided to focus its corporate politics on partnership with big corporations such as Intel and Microsoft. The relationship with Intel has shifted the company support to meego, and much of the community contributors, have moved in that direction. At the time, it looked as next logical evolution step for this project. We are still eagerly awaiting to see the results of this direction.

In February, another significant event occurred: Nokia has decided to completely change its corporate and product strategy with partnership with Microsoft.

The composition of the above events caused/will cause maemo.org to loose its primary supporter - Nokia, which used to provide funding, infrastructure, software and hardware development.

During the last month it was confirmed that Nokia funding of maemo.org and infrastructure will end at the end 2012, causing a widely debated "The End is Coming: What do we do next?" debate.

Some have argued that the most prudent way is simply to let the nature do its work.
Some have argued that we still have time.
Some have argued that we need an instant action.

Each group of opinions have valid points.

I've belong to the third group, and have accepted the nomination out of stubborn determination to just let things go down. I think maemo and its community deserve to survive. In order to achieve that we can not afford to wait and see if Nokia decides to reverses its decisions. Before the end, we have to workable plan, that can be fully put in effect, once the Nokia completely pulls out.

This plan should cover funding, infrastructure, software maintenance for existing hardware and future project goals such as introduction of a new hardware and cooperation with other free software communities.

I am very happy to see project such as Cordia HD going forward and the initiative they have in providing alternative hardware platform. I hope more community members will find the motivation to help this project, instead of useless arguing for the sake of arguing.

Best regards,
Momcilo Majic