Thanks for the quick and positive response. If this is sufficient as a council decision, please tell Dave Neary so that he can send me my voting token.

jacktanner, I don't speak for the whole council but I say you should be good if one account falls in the date period. But you should contact Dave directly.

I share lma's thoughts, so I gave a yes to Dave yesterday when he asked me about the situation, also don't speak for the whole council

Thanks, all, got my token, looking forward to voting.

Thanks, all, for your votes and support for me for the last two elections. It has been exciting, challenging, and a real learning and growing experience.

Even though I won't be on the next council, I'll still be around. Feel free to keep asking me questions!

I just googled my name, and found the following :

" maemo.org - Kristian Wannebo
maemo.org > Profiles > Kristian Wannebo. Karma 75. 0. 0. 0 Add to favourites 0 Bury. Websites. Garage. My Profile. offline Kristian Wannebo ...
maemo.org/profile/view/kristianw/ "

Other members are similarly visible.
( I hope it is just a mistake in the settings in the forum software. )

Inside this forum we can be anonymous, and outside...
Personally I don't mind much,
but personal information should really not LEAK OUT of a forum.

Also, we promote openness in software,
and implicitly indicate superiority over the Microsoft world,
and should attempt superiority in security.

Please forgive my heavy-handed approach to the subject,
but it is really a matter of principles of integrity.

This is not on the forum software but on your maemo.org profile.

You have always been given the option to make anything private on your maemo.org profile. If you are logged in, go to: http://maemo.org/profile/edit/

Note that above it says: "Here is where you define yourself in the maemo community. You can set the privacy of each field after saving changes."

Save your profile and unpublish your first and last name:

Reggie has just answered the real question.

unfortunately you might have kicked yourself in the ***.
because now searching for your name on google brings up your complaint post as first entry.

general advice for all computer activities:

if you expect anonymity do not post personal details anywhere online

uh-oh. LOL.

Note that Google is constantly crawling TMO. Anything you post here will get cached in a matter of minutes.

Thanks for correcting me.

I always thought that choosing privacy or not affected how this information was visible INSIDE the community.

I still think that karma is the kind of information that concerns only community members.

( As I said, I don't really mind personally, so have a good LOL, you are welcome.)