Hello Marieke and all.

I would like to volunteer for the co-creation workshop on Thursday, October 8th, at the Maemo Summit 2009.

My interest in maemo is focussed on usability, the needs of mass consumers and power users, even altough I also have a personal interest in "casual software development" (related to the poweruser-needs).

My skills and experiences:

• MSc, 20 years experience in software development (+/- professionally since 13 years, last 5 years as swdev manager for a large multinational IT company)
• Over 10 years experience with various devices and OS in the mobile segment (Palm 8 years, Windows CE/.net on and off again, Symbian 1.5 years, maemo 2.5 years, JavaME on and off, a bit of iPhone), both as a user and (partially) as a casual developer [PocketC, Compact Framework, JavaME, Python on Maemo, read into iPhone Dev/SDK]
• Some maemo work done (mClock, tabletSearch, packaging wiki)
• An N800 and a N810
• Participant in Summit 2008 and 2009
• Karma "position" somewhere in the top 150
• Experience in the full life-cycle of software development, from A-Z (idea-concept-realisation-marketing-release-support)
• An understanding of the hardcore engineering under the engine without getting lost in details
• An understanding for the needs of the "common people" in the mobile space, being able to abstract between technical "nerds-needs" and mass consumer appeal (use-cases, expectations, usability, accesibility)
• Two months of spare time to invest in Maemo in September and October :-) (I'm currently switching employer and have some massive overtime to compensate).
• No financial interests :-)

Sorry for being a bit late, was on holiday, too...

Thanks and best regards
-Tom