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woody-groups | 21 May 2013 20:20

Nomination for Hildon Foundation Board

Despite recent events...

I also hereby announce my self-nomination for the upcoming Hildon Foundation Board election.

My name is Craig Woodward, I generally go by Woody14619.

I joined the Maemo world as an excited N900 pre-order member in late 2009. I was mainly a forum reader and mild script editor for some time, mainly because my RL work deals with micro systems, so the last thing I wanted to do when coming home was work on more stuff for a micro system.

In mid-2012 I ran for Council and was elected one of 5 members for the term. During that term, three of the Council founded the Hildon Foundation to become the legal body under which Maemo could continue to survive when Nokia decided to pull the plug (which was announced as happening before we took that action). In addition to being one of the three founders of the Hildon Foundation, I am also currently a director via late appointment, after Ivan's early exit. (I'm hoping nobody holds that against me...)

Currently, the Hildon Foundation board is in an odd state. In part because of inaction and/or loss of previous/current directors, and in part due to squabbles over legal verbiage. While all have played a part in that, I'd like to think that my actions have been in line with the desires of the community. I frequently read the forums, am active on IRC, attend Council meetings with great regularity, and work as an admin/maintainer for a portion of the Maemo system, so am up to date on most tech-staff items as well.

My views on the community and it's future are very similar to many already expressed by many candidates already. We need am immediate focus on the present, both in keeping current services running and getting the legal items needed to continue to function as an independent entity. For future goals, we as a community will naturally grow toward another platform as Maemo ages. Weather that is Jolla, a MeeGo device, an independent start-up, or something as yet not even visible in the market place, in the end that's for the community to decide. But I'm willing to bet that the direction will be pretty uniform when it happens.

As stated in public meetings (both Council and Board), I am treating this as both an election and an referendum on my current performance. Regardless, I will continue to offer my services to the community and those representing it, for as long as they would ask it of me. (As most past Council have and continue to do.)

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   I also hereby announce my self-nomination for the upcoming Hildon Foundation Board election.
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   My name is Craig Woodward, I generally go by Woody14619.
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   I joined the Maemo world as an excited N900 pre-order member in late 2009.&nbsp; I was mainly a forum reader and mild script editor for some time, mainly because my RL work deals with micro systems, so the last thing I wanted to do when coming home was work on more stuff for a micro system. 
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   In mid-2012 I ran for Council and was elected one of 5 members for the term.&nbsp; During that term, three of the Council founded the Hildon Foundation to become the legal body under which Maemo could continue to survive when Nokia decided to pull the plug (which was announced as happening before we took that action).&nbsp; In addition to being one of the three founders of the Hildon Foundation, I am also currently a director via late appointment, after Ivan's early exit.&nbsp; (I'm hoping nobody holds that against me...) 
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   Currently, the Hildon Foundation board is in an odd state.&nbsp; In part because of inaction and/or loss of previous/current directors, and in part due to squabbles over legal verbiage.&nbsp; While all have played a part in that, I'd like to think that my actions have been in line with the desires of the community.&nbsp; I frequently read the forums, am active on IRC, attend Council meetings with great regularity, and work as an admin/maintainer for a portion of the Maemo system, so am up to date on most tech-staff items as well.
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   My views on the community and it's future are very similar to many already expressed by many candidates already.&nbsp; We need am immediate focus on the present, both in keeping current services running and getting the legal items needed to continue to function as an independent entity.&nbsp; For future goals, we as a community will naturally grow toward another platform as Maemo ages.&nbsp; Weather that is Jolla, a MeeGo device, an independent start-up, or something as yet not even visible in the market place, in the end that's for the community to decide.&nbsp; But I'm willing to bet that the direction will be pretty uniform when it happens.
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Ryan Abel | 20 May 2013 20:25

Nominating myself for the Hildon Foundation Board

Well, I've decided to toss my hat into the ring for the Hildon Foundation Board election.

Most of you who've been around the Maemo Community for a while probably know me. If not personally, I'd guess
through reputation, but for those of you who don't:

Hello, my name is Ryan Abel. I go by GeneralAntilles online.

I've owned a Maemo device since the beginning of 2006 (around the time the 770 became available in the US),
and began participating on Internet Tablet Talk at that time. I began contributing seriously to Maemo in
2007 when timeless helped get me involved in bugzilla.

In 2008, Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) proposed an idea that would help put the Maemo Community in charge of its own
direction. Jaffa's idea became the Maemo Community Council. Simon Pickering (lardman) and myself were
involved with helping Jaffa to bring that idea into fruition. All three of us served on the inaugural
council (myself, as a rather inexperienced chair) and on the 2nd council (and Jaffa and I on the 4th
council). Since then, I've been involved with bugzilla, the wiki, and various community facilitation
issues. I've also been one of the editors (along with Jaffa and fiferboy) bringing you MWKN for the past two years.

Although Maemo is not as much in my daily life as it has been (I'm using a BlackBerry Z10 these days), it still
holds an important place in my heart. It's the community that introduce me to, and got me involved in, open
source; has given me the opportunity to attend international conferences; and introduced me to close
friends from all over the planet. I want to help ensure that it remains as vibrant a community as it always
has been.

The Hildon Foundation has had a rough start. Politics and personal grand visions have taken a front seat to
the foundation's primary mission: ensuring the continued operation of maemo.org and its services for
the Maemo Community.

Despite these diversions, the foundation has raised enough money to keep mameo.org running, and heroic
volunteer efforts from the community have provided the expertise to ensure that maemo.org's complex
infrastructure operates more smoothly than it has in the past (and stays operating). (I won't name names,
but make sure you thank your volunteer sysops! These skilled individuals have taken on a very complex, and
time consuming, project in volunteering to maintain maemo.org.)

I have one goal in mind in running for the Hildon Foundation Board: to help make keeping maemo.org running as
painless as possible.

Long-term, the community may need to branch out. An obsolete, unsupported platform is not going to provide
the fertile soil to maintain a vibrant community forever. But, ultimately, any growth into new focuses
must be organic and bottom-up. Strategic partnerships with Jolla, Canonical, Qt or whomever
established by the Hildon Foundation will not be productive unless a large percentage of the community's
interest is focused on those things.

maemo.org's power is found in the multitude of individuals who contribute to it in a wide variety of ways.
Individuals in the community must be the ones to steer the direction of the community, not dictates and
decrees from a board of facilitators.

I hope to assist in keeping this community healthy from the Hildon Foundation Board (if you all will have
me). This is an important time for the Maemo Community to determine its future direction, and I want to help
ensure that we are able to do so.

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