Just compiled updated list
http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...ble_candidates

Thanks, I was not aware of that really
So I might step forward then.

My introduction:

Hi, I am juiceme and I am running for Maemo Community Council.
I have been part of the community here for relatively short time, just 17 months. That is not a long time in a human life but surely enough to fit into a community centered around common intrests.

My spark into joining maemo.org came when I purchased a N9 device, my first linux-based mobile phone. Previously I had owned Symbian devices since early nineties but I never did any SWDEV on those as my intrests were on big iron. N9 was the first small embedded device that had the same tools I was used to working with so naturally I was delighted on the possibilities it offered.

I have degrees in EE & ME, and some university courses in Math before dropping out
My current occupation is SW development for Telecommunication Systems, and I have previously done RF design, HW design and Test System design in previous jobs. I have worked in this industry for about 2 decades.
My passion is Free Software, and I am known t be fairly vocal FS advocate on my workplace. I use exclusively Linux/Unix variants in my work and on my own time, and am known for pestering people to drop proprietary/legacy OS'es and switch to Linux

My SW skills include c, python, test automation and tool creation. I like kernel work and prefer to use console over any GUI's.

Please everybody, don't forget to post on the mailing list too! That's the official channel for nominations.

https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/list...aemo-community

I was surprised to see I'm eligable, thanks to sixwheeledbeast for the compiled list. Unfortunately I won't be able to put myself forward due to shift work and issues irl. I don't feel I would have the time to collaborate or meet the requirements of the role to a high standard at the moment.

It might be interesting to see the karma list with last TMO login.

Good idea, but imagine a long-time offliner just visited once yesterday to uncheck receiving PM/mails. That would give a totally wrong image!
So there is the need to ' know ' your councilors...

Just for the record: under certain preconditions I might be available for yet another term, to help out future council with some experience on how stuff gets handled. I however can NOT dedicate as much time to any such position as I did during the last 12 months. So even while anticipated workload is lower than it used to be in total for the council body, my availability still is depending on other candidates and their willingness to proactively take responsibilities and manage/track tasks without me doing constant supervising. Holler if you think I'm needed and those preconditions being met.

cheers
jOERG

HOLLERING!

Just to point out we would not be at this point with maemo.org without your help. So please take my/our deepest thanks.
I hope/know you will still support MO/TMO.

Depending on the individual POV this may as well be an argument to rather stay away from maemo in future ;-) Well, you said maemo.org, not maemo (at large) - so thanks for that. Maemo at large is at a very strange point right now I'd think. The extreme "noise" of almost exactly a year ago is completely gone, not even the usual bitching against council anymore, nobody interested in running for council, nobody even interested in elections. Rather I sense a general mood of "do we really need all that?"
I'm not sure if this is just because everything works too smoothly, because of me having established a somewhat "comfortable dictatorship" that nobody thinks is worth to start a rebellion against, or even because simply nobody interested in maemo anymore.

anyway, who are the candidates who been mentioned in the preconditions to holler and summon me?
/j

As qwazix already mentioned, candidates have to post on the mailing list too (the official channel for nominations) too. Please visit https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/list...aemo-community for further info.

From the announcement, here are the deadlines:
Nominations till the end of the day 2013/11/30 (GMT)
Contemplation till the end of the day 2013/12/07 (GMT)
Election till the end of the day 2013/12/15 (GMT)

So far, we have 3 candidates (2 of them pending announcment to mailing list!) and
need at least 1 more candidate.
A fourth candidate can be found here if some preconditions are met.

Good luck!