Originally Posted by mrsellout

Ok, we now have a Community Council / Council election Q1/2 2012 landing page .

Could someone from the Council please confirm the various dates for the process.

Another thing I'd like to bring up, could it be possible to advertise the process with a banner as we did/do with the Coding Competition and CSSU ?

Edit: List of eligible candidates is up. I used this convertor to make the table in wiki format, but it stripped off the links to individual profiles.

The attached file contains the account list in html format with the links included if anyone knows how to do it properly.

Originally Posted by misterc

is there a list of whom is volunteering 'til date?

HOW TO VOTE
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Voting will run from May 16th until May 23nd 2012, 23:59 UTC.

Your voting credentials are:

URL: http://maemo.org/vote/
E-mail: {with which you registered with Maemo}
Vote token:

After authenticating yourself, you can choose your preferred candidates
in order of preference. You will have an opportunity to verify and
confirm your vote afterwards.

Once you have confirmed your vote, a unique secret identifier will be
given to you which will allow you to verify after the election that your
vote was counted correctly.

Once you have voted, you will not be able to vote again.

Thank you for your vote!

Regards,
Niels Breet, on behalf of the Maemo community.

Originally Posted by mrsellout

I've created a wiki page for the Council Declarations.

As time permits today and tomorrow, I'll complete the list of candidates, in the mean time feel free to edit the page to fill out the information.

Edit: As it stands there are currently 4 runners, with SD69 and Geneven nominated without having accepted the nomination and Gerbick who has declared his intention to run here at tmo, and been nominated on the mailing list but has yet to declare his intent to run there.

Apologies if have missed anyone, it certainly isn't intentional.

Arie falls into the same category as Gerbick in having declared an intention to run on tmo, without having officially decared his intention on the mailing list.

Originally Posted by Estel

Thanks mrsellout. I've updated my mission statement, so I encourage everyone to read about my plans for eventual council period

The second of those questions doesn't seem fair or
neutral. Can we change it to something like "What are your thoughts
on how communications should be conducted between Nokia, Nemein, and
the Council; and the council and the community?"

Originally Posted by Estel

Could anyone, for a little flow of change, answer my "question about questions" from here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=125
...? I would really like to answer questions, no matter if they're a little biased or not

Originally Posted by qwazix

[...]
Which brings us to my third point. Most community packages like qt 4.7.4, hildon-desktop, qt-components etc. are already superior than the official ones. We should fight to get them be the one and only upgrade path, push them to all users and make the N900 target one again. Because developing for maemo should be fun, most people do it in their free time and trying to cross compile for 2-3 kinds of setups (ssu users, cssu-users, extras-devel users etc) is just annoying and makes developers not want to care. There should be a project for consolidation of packages, deletion of orphaned dev packages that cause confusion (libqtm-12-*, qt-componets etc) and authoring of a small developers guide for the latest dev tools in maemo.