just putting my notes here, i havent read anything in the last few days, but i have a brief restbite and so need to say a few words.

at the last election i stood as someone who would help get developer participation and involvement.
i did not make the council then, but i got a job instead doing just that.

i work for collabora now on the fremantle application framework team helping to integrate patches and fixes from the team of extremely dedicated hard working developers.

i have been working with the great team of guys attempting to cure one of the biggest software problems fremantle has (optification) and have happily accepted and pushed community patches in.

this job however takes a lot of my time - to the extent liqbase has been barely touched since i started.

if i took on the council, it would be on similar grounds, there are a lot of reported bugs in the tracker and whilst the team is good, there is no way we can fix all of them alone. we would have to find a mechanism to guide developers towards the code and to accept their patches in the system.

any new council must spend some time trying to get more momentum for opening the current closed portions of the os, otherwise we end up with a digital black box and all the hard work the teams have put in making fremantle will be for nothing.

we know harmattan is coming, we know meego is coming, but there are now thousands of people today with diablo and fremantle apps and devices which need care and attention.

its all good having the new initiatives and preparing the ground for the new systems which will obviously be important but if we forget our roots and just abandon the current system, the community will grow impatient.

to go forward, the council will have to nurture the current.

this is the first technical note i have written in a few days, sorry if its rambling i have excrutiating toothache and just had surgery yesterday.