Community Council

Elections Announcement

mentalisttraceur@gmail.com (Alexander Kozhevnikov) — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:17:51 +0000

Hello Community,

The main part of this post is simplified to a few sentences. If you want more details, you can read the "footnotes" below.

As many of you are aware, the Hildon Foundation Board of Directors has come to be filled with all unelected Directors. [1]

There has been some significant desire to have a reelection take place once the infrastructure migration issues were settled. [2]

Those infrastructure issues are now essentially settled - we are running on our own servers (not the interim Nemein hosting), and our volunteer techstaff maintains essentially all of *maemo.org. [3]

The Hildon Foundation Council has the authority to call for the elections of both the Council and the Board of Directors, if there is unanimous agreement by all members on the Council. [4]

It is the position of this Council, that this Council was always intended to count as the Hildon Foundation Council. And thus we have the authority to trigger both elections simultaneously. [5]

Furthermore, even besides this point, a careful consideration of the Bylaws and the timings of the resignations and appointments of Directors from the Board, indicates that an election should have already been triggered by the Bylaws themselves. [6]

Having taken all of the above into consideration, we find that the desires and wellbeing of the Community is best served by us calling for the election of both the Council and the Board [7]. We have waited until the last possible moment in our term to call for this election of both bodies, to give the Board a chance to get everything done within a reasonable timeframe and then call for an election in accordance to the intended democratic spirit of our Hildon Foundation on their own.

Thus, we hereby announce the elections for both the Hildon Foundation Board and the Council.

Election nominations are now open! Please send nominations to the mailing list maemo-community@maemo.org . Do not be afraid to nominate yourself or those you think are suitable for the positions. The last time we barely scraped together enough candidates for both Council and Board.

Voting timetable:
2013-03-22:
Referendum was Announced
2013-04-09:
Nomination Period for Board/Council Begins
2013-04-22:
Referendum Contemplation Period Ends
Referendum Voting Begins
2013-04-23:
Nomination Period for Board/Council Ends
Board/Council Candidate Contemplation Period Begins
2013-04-29:
Referendum Voting Ends
2013-04-30:
Board/Council Candidate Contemplation Period Ends
Board/Council Election Voting Begins
2013-05-07:
Board/Council Election Voting Ends

- Elections Eligibility Criteria -

Eligibility criteria will likely remain the same as they have been, in as much as feasible. There is, however, a modifying circumstance: *.maemo.org account registration and login has been broken for months, until recently; furthermore, karma is /still/ broken, with a significant number of members missing a significant amouht of karma.

We will manually calculate karma for candidates, so the restrictions on candidates are the same as they have been. However, we think it is infeasible to manually count the karma for every user who might be eligible to vote. So unless there is a serious volunteer effort to calculate everyone's karma by hand, we will treat all maemo.org accounts older than 3 months as eligible for this election only (if it comes to pass that karma is still broken by the next election cycle, it will be up to that Board/Council, and the Community then, to sort out what to do.)

If people with newer accounts think they ought to be eligible to vote (for example, you would have registered earlier but it was impossible to do so at the time because the system was broken), please contact the Council by either responding to this message or, preferably, by emailing council@maemo.org. (Please note, while we will try to process requests for eligibility inclusions as late as possible, we can only realistically guarantee that we'll manage to do it if you get it in a week before the vote for the referendum takes place - so before the 15th of this month.)

- Footnotes -

[1] All three of the original Directors left over time. Texrat/Randall had to depart early on, and Rob (originally in the non-director position of legal adviser) was appointed to replace him. Ivgalvez/Ivan had to leave because he had to relocate himself and his family from one country to another. Tim left shortly after Ivan due to reasons that would take longer to explain than appropriate for this footnote, but which can be found here. Woody and Jim were appointed to replace Ivan and Tim respectively.

[2] Thread where Council solicited Community opinion on the matter of Board re-election. Also here, where both Jim and Woody (two of the current three Board members) indicate support for reelection. Also, a few of the Community members who come to the Council meetings on IRC have indicated a desire to see a re-election happen for several meetings now.

[3] We still do not have a final contract signed with Nokia, but that should not in itself be hindered by a reelection, because the next Board can sign the contract just as easily, and we are starting to suspect they'll get it done faster.

[4] §X ¶2 (¶3 if you count the separated-by-pagebreak paragraph as two) of the Hildon foundation bylaws. (The Board can also trigger an election of both bodies, but that's beside the point.)

[5] There was some disagreement (from one current Board member that we know of) whether this Council officially counts as the Hildon Foundation that the Bylaws refer to previous Council. The alternative would be that the election for electing a Council and the first Hildon Foundation Board members at the same time did not mean for the Council to be the Hildon Foundation Council. This, to be frank, is clearly not what any member of the Community would expect, since the Council was written in to the Hildon Foundation Bylaws as a way to formally include the already existing Council for communication with Nokia into the new, Nokia-independent framework. Nor is it what was intended by the person mainly responsible for writing the bylaws (Woody, who is currently another member of the Board). Finally, if the Hildon Foundation Council is not the current Maemo Community Council, then A. the Board has failed to appoint or call for the elections of a Hildon Foundation Council for 6 months, and B. this makes no logical sense because the election criteria for the Hildon Foundation are determined by the Hildon Foundation Council according to the bylaws. So if a Council wasn't intended to be initiated at the same time as Hildon Foundation Board was, how is Hildon Foundation supposed to execute an election of either the next Board or a Council, if there is no Council to set the election eligibility criteria?

[6] We only ever had 3 Directors. The bylaws state that the Board can spend at most seven days in a row with less than 3 directors, else an election has to happen. §IV ¶6 (¶7 if you count the paragraph split into two pages two paragraphs) of the Hildon Foundation bylaws. This has occured. This post counts the dates and times of official (in-writing) resignations and acceptance-of-assignment statements of Directors. Other earlier posts, for example by joerg, in the same thread, indicate that the same gap of more than 7 days applies to the informal resignation and acceptance statements.

[7] A more verbose/formal announcement can be seen here, in the latest Council meeting.

2012-12-14 Meeting Minutes

mentalisttraceur@gmail.com (Alexander Kozhevnikov) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:19:43 +0000

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: DocScrutinizer05, qwazix, ivgalvez, Mentalist Traceur.
Absent: NielDK.

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- CC Device Issue Almost At Dead End
- Hildon Foundation Monthly Monetary Reports
- Infrastructure

Topic (CC Device Issue Almost At Dead End):

qwazix still has no reply from anyone about the CC devices.
ivgalvez recently acquired one more Nokia contact, who he will try.

Topic (Hildon Foundation Monthly Monetary Reports):

Mentalist Traceur brought up for consideration that the Board could publish a monthly (or some other timeframe) report to the community, saying how much money was earned, how much was spent where, and what the financial aftermath was for Hildon Foundation for that month.
There was mutual agreement with this suggestion.
ivgalvez will forward this suggestion to the Board

Topic (Infrastructure):

Nokia agreed to pay for everything except TMO for two months while the preparations for a transition are ongoing.
TMO, however, has no such provision, and is thus fairly urgent.
TMO will be needing an administrator in the near future.
It is looking likely that the Foundation will have to hire a professional sysadmin at some point, if there is no sufficiently skilled volunteer.
We had a significant debate about what the better course of action was (note: infrastructure decisions are decided by Board, not Council, so this has only indirect influence on policy, if any).
The disagreement largely boils down to whether the hosting of talk.maemo.org forums and the other maemo.org website needs to be on one server, and more importantly, how soon should the servers be consolidated.
It is also partly informed by a claim made that the laws of the US (where TMO is currently hosted) would require us to notify and/or get the agreement of all TMO members before the forum could be relocated to the EU.
The details of the discussion can be seen in the IRC log, linked above, but were not included in the minutes for brevity.

Action Items:

ivgalvez will contact his remaining Nokia contact in the hope of getting the CC issue unstuck.
ivgalvez will forward the monthly (or other time period) Foundation financial report to community idea to the Board.

2012-11-30 and 2012-12-07 Council Meeting Minutes

mentalisttraceur@gmail.com (Alexander Kozhevnikov) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:15:37 +0000

This post contains the meeting minutes for both the 2012-11-30 and the 2012-12-07 meetings. As the person responsible for preparing these minutes and posting them in a timely manner, I apologize to the community for falling behind on them these last two weeks. It is worth noting that since these meetings took place, there has been discussion on the TMO infrastructure topic, both internally and visibly to the community through Board posts, and probably to some extent forum discussion. So the bullets regarding TMO infrastructure issues do not necessarily reflect the latest information by any means.

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2012-11-30 Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: DocScrutinizer05, qwazix, ivgalvez.
Absent: NielDK, Mentalist Traceur completely forgot about meeting.

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- Board Update / Infrastructure - TMO
- Board Update / Inftrastructure - Other
- Misc. Topics

Notes

This meeting was largely a casual discussion based on topics that, by the time these minutes were written, have been covered in the Board's meeting and minutes. Thus, this meeting's bullets should not be read as council's official positions/decisions, as is the case usually, but rather as just a summary of ideas that came up for discussion.

Topic 1 (Board Update / Infrastrucure TMO):

Reggie has apparently decided to donate TMO to the Hildon Foundation.
If the forum is kept, it looks like the board will either have to put it into read-only mode, and/or pay for a vbulletin license, because forum-porting/converting to another platform is not particularly feasible.
DocScrutinizer intended to talk to Reggie about this some more, in part to see what Reggie's reason for doing this is, in case it was due to some lost-in-translation issues.

Topic 2 (Board Update / Infrastructure Other):

It was noted that it is likely the board will have to trim off some of the current infrastructure in order to be able to maintain anything.
Garage and Bugzilla were both mentioned as things that might need to be made read-only.
It was suggested that the autobuilder might only be left for Fremantle, or perhaps also Diablo, and that anything below that can be considered obsolete by now.

Topic 3 (Misc topics):

CC Devices:

qwazix notes nothing has come of trying to contact anyone at Nokia.
Asked ivgalvez to see if he can manage to contact anyone.

Action Items:

None

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2012-12-07 Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: qwazix, Mentalist Traceur
Absent: DocScrutinizer, NielDK, ivgalvez was traveling with limited connectivity.

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- Wiki Infrastructure
- CC Devices
- Nexus 7 As a Maemo Reference Device

Topic 1 (Wiki Infrastructure):

Wiki continues to have issue. kerio and ivgalvez are waiting for a response from X-Fade on the issue.

Topic 2 (CC Devices):

qwazix notes there's still no progress on the CC devices front; we're waiting for the Board's Nokia contact to respond about the matter.

Topic 3 (Nexus 7 As a Maemo Reference Device):

A day or so before the council meeting, the Council and Board mailing lists had the idea of using Nexus 7 as a Maemo reference device come up, due to the fact that there is now a Ubuntu installer available for it, which includes possibly workable linux drivers.
qwazix brought this up during the council meeting, suggesting that the Council take the initiative in querying the community to see how much interest there is in the idea.
Due to only two councilmembers being present, it was decided to merely mention it in the meeting minutes, and to discuss the topic in more depth when we had a fuller council meeting.

Action Items:

None

2012-11-23 Council Meeting Minutes

mentalisttraceur@gmail.com (Alexander Kozhevnikov) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:11:47 +0000

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: DocScrutinizer05, qwazix, MentalistTraceur.
Absent: NielDK, ivgalvez

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- IRC Account for ivgalvez
- Infrastructure
- CC Devices Situation
- Misc topics

Notes

Before the meeting, ivgalvez was able to give us an update from the Board, saying that next week the board has a conference with both Nemein and Nokia, and that hopefully this helps unblock the current situation.

Topic 1 (IRC Account Requirement for Councilors):

DocScrutinizer brought up that community councilors are supposed to have registered IRC accounts on FreeNode IRC, and ivgalvez currently doesn't have one.
Significant reasons for this mentioned were:

An unregistered username can be used by anyone, and impersonating councilors has significant potential for community disruption.

An unregistered username cannot receive special permissions for IRC channels, such as being able to change the topic of the council meeting channel.

Unregistered users can't receive cloaks.

Thus, DocScrutinizer cannot proceed with the cloak/permissions changes request until ivgalvez has registered his IRC nick.

Topic 2 (Infrastructure):

Wiki (still) has edit error.The error comes from /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/EditPage.php
Thus, Council decided to request that X-Fade publishes that, and perhaps other *.php files, or the entire /usr/share/mediawiki/includes* subdirectory, excluding any secret/sensitive files, to maemo.org, so that the community could take a look at them and perhaps someone could figure out where the error is coming from.

Topic 3 (CC Devices Situation):

(Note: DocScrutinizer did not actively participate in this topic)

qwazix sent e-mail to the contact that sent the DHL tracking information for the CC devices, to ask about the two CC devices that have not yet been delivered. He has not received a response yet.
Recipient of the slightly malfunctioning N950 has sent e-mail to the same person, but has not followed up since then.
There is another contact that handled the previous wave(s) of device giveaways, it was decided to try them next, after a full week of no reply has elapsed.

Topic 4 (Misc topics):

Jolla Relations:

qwazix noted he has introduced himself to the Jolla community relationship chief, as a Council Member.

IRC Cloaks:

DocScrutinizer will just make a blanket request to set all current IRC "maemo/community/council*" cloaks to "maemo/community/contributor", before giving the new councilors council cloaks - to make sure there's no straggler "council" cloaks left.
Anyone wishing to keep a "maemo/community/council" cloak for some reason even though they are not a current council member, may contact the council explaining their reasons, to have their case considered.

Action Items:

qwazix will send ivgalvez an e-mail to request that he register his FreeNode IRC nick.
DocScrutinizer will send the IRC cloak/permission change requests to X-Fade when ivgalvez does the aforementioned.
qwazix will send X-Fade a request to publish the relevant wiki pages as per above.
qwazix will wait until Monday, then e-mail the fallback contact for the CC devices.

New Council Introduction and 2012-11-16 Council Meeting Minutes

mentalisttraceur@gmail.com (Alexander Kozhevnikov) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:11:32 +0000

Hello all,

First, greetings to everyone from your new Council members. As you all already might know, on the council for this term are:

We look forward to serving you for the duration of our term. We will also keep posting the minutes of every meeting we hold, just as the last council did. Please do not hesitate to contact either of us with problems and/or concerns, and we will do our best to address them. Also, remember that the IRC room where community council meetings take place is open and you can always drop in when we hold the meetings (18 UTC, in #meeting-maemo on the FreeNode IRC network).

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming (Council Meeting Minutes):

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: DocScrutinizer05, ivgalvez, qwazix, MentalistTraceur.
Absent: NielDK

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

Election of Chair
Malfunctioning Coding Competition N950 Issue
Board Update
Other Infrastructure Discussion
Misc topics

Topic 1 (Election of Chair):

Prior to meeting, DocScrutinizer nominated MentalistTraceur for chair.
MentalistTraceur accepted.
Vote was held, everyone present was in favor.
DocScrutinizer wished it noted that NielDK wasn't there to vote.
MentalistTraceur noted that he would be fine with a re-vote should NielDK wish to apply for chair.

Topic 2 (Malfunctioning Coding Competition N950 Issue):

Qwazix brought up that a receiver of a coding competition N950 had an issue with a portion of the screen being dead to touch.
Decided that first step is to see if receiver of the device got an e-mail confirmation with a contact address.
If they never got an e-mail confirmation or that contact doesn't work, qwazix will provide them with the contact e-mails other council members have to try.
Aside from that it's outside of Council's power.

Topic 3 (Board Update):

ivgalvez delivered an update from the Board meeting, particularly on the topic of the Board selecting admins, and their liability.
It was noted that no formal contract is necessary, that accepting an appointment from the Board constitutes a verbal contract under the relevant not-for-profit law.
Board will have an officer appointed to be the official administrator, but this "officer" can be either an individual or a group (such as the whole Council).
This administrator is not necessarily the most technically knowledgeable or the one doing the bulk of the administration, but rather is to hold the root passwords, grant/revoke access as necessary, and coordinate the "real" admins.
DocScrutinizer was nominated for that position by the Council.
ivgalvez will take this nomination to the Board at the next Board meeting.

Topic 4 (Other Infrastructure Discussion):

No news/progress on the current infrastructure situation.
Wiki allows login again, but still no editing.
Nemein has not responded to requests for an estimated time to fix the situation.

Topic 5 (Misc topics):

(Note: ivgalvez had to leave at this point)
IRC Cloaks:

woody14619 will have his cloak changed from maemo/community/council to
maemo/community/contributor.
e*_ (Estel) and Stskeeps will have their maemo/community/council cloaks removed.
qwazix and MentalistTraceur will have maemo/community/council cloaks added.

Action Items:

qwazix will follow up with dirksonguer regarding his malfunctioning N950.
ivgalvez will take the DocScrutinizer nomination to the Board during next board meeting.
DocScrutinizer will handle the IRC cloak changes.

Open Letter from the Hildon Foundation Board to the Maemo Community

ivgalvez@gmail.com (Ivan Galvez Junquera) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:01:27 +0000

By Tim Samoff, Hildon Foundation Board Member.

Dear Maemo Community,

As long-time supporters and contributors -- and, in all humility, quite
honored to be counted among all of you -- we, the inaugural Hildon
Foundation Board felt it necessary that we put forth an open, public
statement about how we feel the "Board" should be considered and engaged
with.

At this point, the first Board meeting minutes have been published for
public review. As we hope you'll see, it is nothing but the Maemo
Community's best interests that we are concerned with. In fact, the
entire reason for the Hildon Foundation to exist is so that the
community may continue with as few interruptions as possible. So, as
you read on, please keep this in mind.

A little history first...

Sometime in 2007 this community reached a tipping point. There were many
active users, new devices, new code, and a lot of questions pertaining
to the future of the maemo.org website and the community's relationship
with Nokia. Because of this, the idea to create a "community council" as
a way of fielding community issues and communicating them with Nokia was
proposed. Those of you who have been a part of this community for a
while will remember that the idea was widely agreed upon and the Maemo
Community Council was born.

This new entity, while totally unpaid and volunteer, ended up being an
amazingly efficient conduit between community matters and those at Nokia
who considered Maemo their charge. Both the community and Nokia
flourished because of this relational reorganization.

Fast-forward to the present...

Nokia is leaving the scene (figuratively, of course, as we hope that the
community still sees some Nokia faces here and there); the community is
in a bit of an identity crisis; the Council and Foundation Board
elections are rife with issues... The list could go on. But, regardless
of these problems, we now have a new phase of community life to forge.

Because of this, it is necessary to reevaluate how the community
operates and who is responsible for its continued operations.

Today's Maemo Community Council...

Thankfully, the new Maemo Community Council is made up of very dedicated
and trustworthy folks. And, as it has been since the Council's

inception, these are the people who will directly fend for the daily
life of our community. It is with gratitude that our community should
receive this new Council. Treat them respectfully and always give them
the benefit of the doubt. They are our dedicated and faithful guides.

The Hildon Foundation...

The Hildon Foundation and, specifically, the Foundation Board should be
viewed in quite a different light, though. It is the Hildon Foundation
that will oversee the transition of the Maemo Community away from Nokia

and into the hands of the community. Of course, the Foundation is also
very concerned with ongoing development within both the Mer and Nemo
projects, so facilitating their future is also quite important.

It is the Hildon Foundation that will administer such things as
community infrastructure, managing money needed to continue the
community, and general oversight of features and functionality in and

around the strata of the community. Understand that it is the
"Foundation Board" -- regardless of the individuals who actually occupy
the roles within -- who accept and administer responsibilities.

Because of this, it is the current Board's opinion that the relational
dynamic between the community, the Council, and the Board should remain
very similar to how they existed between the community, the Council, and
Nokia in past years. And, because of this, it is the Boards opinion
that the community should continue to communicate directly with the
Council, and not necessarily with the Board. (Hence, discussion forums
such as "Ask the Board" are quite inappropriate for these purposes as
they never existed between the community and Nokia.)

In Conclusion...

All of this being said, the Hildon Foundation Board will make every
attempt to run "business" in an open source manner. We will publish as
much of our meeting minutes as possible without violating any non
disclosure agreements. Likewise, we will make every attempt to respond
to community communication via the Maemo Community Council, especially
those things that pertain to community infrastructure and daily
operations. Lastly, we will remain active within the community as
regular community members.

Thank you...

Thank you for supporting this community. It is the reason why we who
choose to serve in more political capacities like the Community Council
and the Board. There is no other reason. We believe in this community.
We desire this community to succeed. We will do everything we can to
facilitate the growth of this community.

In service,
The Hildon Foundation Board

Board minutes for meeting on November 3rd, 2012

ivgalvez@gmail.com (Ivan Galvez Junquera) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:54:19 +0000

Minutes for first Hildon Foundation Board meeting. VoIP meeting held on Google Hangout. Attending: - Randall Arnold / texrat - Tim Samoff / timsamoff - Ivan Galvez / ivgalvez - Robert Bauer/ SD69 - Craig Woodward (intermittent) / woody14619

Hildon Foundation, Meeting 1 - November 3, 2012

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+ Note:
- Technical Issues persisted via Google Hangout: only Randy, Ivan and Tim had voice capability. Others participated via chat.

+ Public Meeting Minutes?
- Tim: Yes
- Randy: Some private; some public
- Ivan: Are they required?
- Rob: n/a
- Craig: They should be public, with exceptions of criticalinformation/NDA.

+ Bylaws, version 7
- Bylaws unanimously approved by all Board members.

+ Board Officers
- Chair: Randall Arnold
- Secretary: Robert Bauer
- Treasurer: Currently, Tim Samoff
> Proposed to ask Cosimo Kroll/zehjotkah to occupy this role.
~ Cosimo has agreed to take the position and will be appointed at the next Board meeting.)

+ Bank account?
- Find out about bank account (ask Niel Nielsen/nieldk).

+ Meeting schedule
- VoiP every two weeks?
- IRC meetings (Board Business) every two weeks & VoiP meetings(Official Board Meetings) monthly?
- Will schedule regular meetings on Google Calendar (which will also create a permanent Hangout for the Board).

+ Transitioning tasks from Council to Board. Separation of current tasks.
- Ensure Council remains communication conduit for community.
- Board organizes operational decisions.
- Board needs an official statement for Board responsibility withcommunity.
> Ask Craig Woodward about maemo.org channel(s) of Board communication.
~ After the meeting, Ivan asked X-Fade to set up the same mechanism that Council is using for communication. In the meantime, Council account can be used.

+ Funding activities:
- Nothing to report at this time.

+ Private session concerning some NDA-protected issues (recorded elsewhere).

+ Infrastructure problems:
- To be discussed via email.

+ Meeting concluded.

Meet the new (Q4 2012) Maemo Community Council!

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:22:52 +0000

Based on historic review, the following seems to be the only viable option for this process.

After confirming with the election rules, and historic precedent, the case for five Maemo Community Council candidates seems to be very clear. The case for five is a "no election" scenario, granting the candidates full Council-ship.

This being said, it brings me great pleasure to announce the new, Q4 2012 Maemo Community Council:

As stated many times in the past month, these five maemo.org contributors have put in timeless hours supporting our community. They are all people who our community has expressed much support for and who will do what it takes to see this community through the tumultuous months ahead of us. In speaking for the entire previous Council, I'd like to offer a warm welcome (or welcome back) and wish them a happy and productive term! The formal hand-off will occur at the Council meeting, Friday at 18:00 UTC on #maemo-meeting (on IRC/freenode).

Remember, the position of Community Council member is completely voluntary and unpaid. These fine people are serving you, the Maemo Community, in their free time, out of the goodness of their hearts and a passion for what Maemo is and means.

Once again, thank you all for the ongoing support. This Council only exists because of you.

Board Election Results and Council Election Cycle Update

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:54:53 +0000

The results of the Hildon Foundation Board elections, Q4 2012 are now official. Congratulations to all involved, and many thanks to the community for their support and their vote.

Please keep in mind that the Council election cycle is still going! Nominations continue through the 28th, and voting will occur the first week of November! There are currently four standing candidates for Council.

Board Elections and Council Nominations

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:12:01 +0000

For those who haven't been following along with the discussion:

Board elections have started, and will close on October 18th.
Council nominations have re-opened and been extended until October 28th.

The election thread has all the details, including the new time tables. Thanks again to MisterC for creating the candidate declaration wiki page, and to Andrew for helping with clarifications and nomination validation on the community mailing list.

If you have not yet received your token for voting, please check your spam filters and/or validate you are elegable and have a current e-mail address in your maemo.org account.

Council logs for meeting on September 28th, 2012

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:29:59 +0000

This is a review of the weekly meeting of the Maemo Community Council.

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: Woody14619, Ivgalvez, NielDK, SD69

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

CC status
Elections
Bylaws updates and NFP status
Council Mailbag (QT5 competition related)
Misc topics

Topic 1 (CC Status)

Elections for CC are finished, organizers are working on finalizing results.
See the official wiki page for links and eventual official results.

Topic 2 (Elections)

We have enough candidates to move forward, nominations end the 28th.

Topic 3 (Bylaws and NFP status)

Updates from Woody and TMO are posted in TMO.
We now have a tax-ID number.
Woody has had no time to work on getting bank account setup.
We need to chat with Nokia/Nemien to do further setup for transition.

Topic 4 (Council Mailbag)

Laszlo Papp requests Council attempt to recall/redistribute awards from QT5 competition from earlier in 2012, as he feels recipients have not promoted QT5 as the award required.
After consideration, this was a Nokia-run competition which Council was not involved in. Council feels it would be inappropriate to interject itself into the QT community (which is much larger than Maemo, Harmattan, and/or MeeGo).
It is decided we will encourage Laszlo to take this matter up with the Community via TMO. If there is a consensus there, the next Council may revisit this topic.

Topic 5 (Misc/reminders)

We continue to have infrastructure problems, hopefully resolvable by Hildon Foundation when we/if they get the keys.

Last Call for Council Nominations And Bylaw Review

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:52:56 +0000

The nomination period for Council and the Board of the new Foundation are ending in just under 48 hours. To date we have had NO submissions for Council and only two for the Board. If there's no interest in keeping Maemo.org going, ignore this and it very well may go away.

Also, what may be the final version of the bylaws (version 5) has been posted on the TMO thread where there's been a lively discussion going on. For those involved in that, thank you. For those who would like to check them out and comment, please hit the link.

Council logs for meeting on September 21st, 2012

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:41:55 +0000

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: Woody14619, Ivgalvez, SD69

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

Elections
Bylaws updates
Legal status and paperwork
Back-burner items and path forward
Misc topics

Topic 1 (Elections)

Elections for CC are underway, all looks to be working well.
Banners were posted on TMO by Reggie for CC Election and Council Elections.
Ivan suggests Woody14619 do a thread/wiki page about the voting system.
The ML moderation is not happening, need to check X-Fade on that.

Topic 2 (Update on bylaws)

Updates from Woody and TMO are posted in TMO.
We should do at least one more round, using blog/ML, etc.

Topic 3 (Legal status, paperwork)

Hildon Foundation paperwork is in, we now exist (or will very soon).
Next steps include setting up a bank account, negotiating contracts.
Ivan suggests we use the donation policy from Mer.

Topic 4 (Path forward)

Discussion about the next steps for the Foundation and Council.
The suggestion of creating a to-do list to hand to both next cycle is made.
One Council member suggested that the community and potential nominees don't know the status of Reggie's reluctance to transfer TMO, and that the status should be made public before the election nomination period closes. The majority felt it was not prudent to disclose it announce it publicly, but instead to inform nominees directly.
The suggestion of creating a "things candidates should know" list is made.

Topic 5 (Misc/reminders)

SD69 wants to setup a "coming soon" landing page for Hildon Foundation.
SD69 takes action to donate his domain and the one NielDK has to foundation.

Council logs for meeting on September 14th, 2012

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:28:20 +0000

Due to time demands meeting minutes were not produced until 9-25. Sorry for the delay!

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: Woody14619, SD69, ZogG, djszapi, DocScrutinizer

Pre-meeting discussion:

A primary worker in QT5 development takes issue with those getting awards for QT5 development, but not helping on porting for the N9.

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

Elections (Council and CC)
Update on bylaws
Misc topics

Topic 1 (Elections)

Woody14619 has updated scripts to allow single-token to multi-election voting.
The CC will be setup and in effect will be a test of the system, having 7 elections on one token.

Topic 2 (Bylaws)

SD69 will have yet another revision out this weekend, shaping up nicely.

Topic 3 (Misc)

SD69 discusses issues around Foundation setup.
OBS and such are discussed, movement to continue collaboration with Mer touched on.
Discussion from before the meeting continues...

Council logs for meeting on September 7th, 2012

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:26:34 +0000

Due to time demands meeting minutes were not produced until 9-25. Sorry for the delay!

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: Woody14619, Ivgalvez, SD69i, DocScrutinizer05, Kerio

Summary of 15:00 meeting with X-Fade:

Council elections were announced, X-Fade will help w/ elections.
Discussion on using a single token for multiple elections.
X-Fade commits to handling CC if Woody can make single-token work.
Bergie will look at why Merlin can't get access.
Nokia rep for giving SSL certs for sites has gone missing.

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

Council Elections Started
Infrastructure status
Bylaws updates

Topic 1 (Council Elections Started )

Woody announced elections, things are moving along.

Topic 2 (Infrastructure discussion)

Woody will look to update the voting software to do multi-token voting.
We should be able to use the machine for CC if that gets done soon.

Topic 3 (Bylaws updates)

New questions are being asked, some require more info, all please review.
SD69 is doing a revision with required legal bits.
We should attempt to settle bylaws before the 15th.
We should re-post articles into TMO/ML/Blog, etc.

Topic 4 (Misc)

Discussion about bylaws and Karma, how to codify?

Maemo Elections (September 2012)

woody14619@yahoo.com (Craig Woodward) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:45:21 +0000

While it's been just over 5 months, the current Council feels that due to timing considerations the next Community Council elections are due at this time.

While it's been just over 5 months, the current Council feels that due to timing considerations the next Community Council elections are due at this time.
This election will be a very special one, considering the state of Maemo and Nokia and how things have unfolded over the past few months.

The election timescale (all times UTC) is as follows:

For Council the election timescale is as follows:
Nominations open: 00:00, Saturday, 15th September 2012
Nominations close: 23:59, Friday, 28th September 2012
Voting opens: 00:00, Saturday, 6th October 2012
Voting closes: 23:59, Friday, 12th October 2012
Nominations close: 23:59, Sunday, 28th October 2012
Voting opens: 00:00, Friday, 2nd November 2012
Voting closes: 23:59, Thursday, 8th November 2012

For Board the election timescale is as follows:
Nominations open: 00:00, Saturday, 15th September 2012
Nominations close: 23:59, Friday, 28th September 2012
Voting opens: 00:00, Saturday, 6th October 2012
Voting closes: 23:59, Friday, 12th October 2012
Voting opens: 00:00, Friday, 12th October 2012
Voting closes: 23:59, Thursday, 18th October 2012

What will be decided?

This year there are two elections to be run in parallel.

COUNCIL MEMBERS - The council is a body of volunteers taken from the Maemo community that acts as a focal point for the community. Historically, Council's role has been limited to representing developers on, and users of, maemo.org to Nokia (and vice versa). Examples of council activity can be found on the Council homepage or in the blog. The role of Council will continue to be as it was before, as a group to work with the Community, and act as a focal point for communication with group in charge of services needed by the community to continue, whomever that turns out to be.

BOARD MEMBERS- Due to Nokia's state, its funding for maemo.org in 2013 is uncertain. The community is working on bylaws for a new legal entity (currently with the working title “Hildon Foundation”) that can legally inherit the domain name or have donations (monetary, hardware and/or data) from Nokia, the current providers, and community members, which can be used to continue operation of resources vital to the community. The bylaws are currently in discussion, and will be formalized shortly. The initial Board for the Foundation will be elected parallel to, and with the same election rules and requirements as, those currently established for Council elections. It is expected that the Board elected for this new entity will adopt the community's desired bylaws and be ready to take the reigns as soon as the entity is ready for operation.

How does the vote work?

Each member of maemo.org, who has an account that is more than 3 months old and who has earned over 10 "karma" points on that account, gets an electronic ballot. This election ballot is a pair of "single transferrable votes". Voters will rank their Council candidates in order of preference; understanding that if their top candidate cannot get elected with the votes they receive, the votes are redistributed by rank order until all five seats have been allocated. They will then be able to vote for Board members in the same manner as the Council election above, with the list of candidates running for that body.

What's next?

Community members should be considering whether they want to stand for Council, the Board, or possibly for both. Anyone who has karma of over 100 is eligible to stand, including employees and sub-contractors of Nokia. When nominations open, you can nominate someone via an email to the maemo-community mailing list (which they must reply to and accept in order to be considered a candidate) or you can put your own hat into the ring by emailing the same list indicating such.

To be clear, candidates may choose to run for the Board, for Council, or for both bodies. Elections will be held at the same time, but each body will be voted on and tabulated completely separately. If a single candidate runs for both positions, they will appear in both ballot lists. At no point will vote tallies flow from one election source into the other.

Update Oct-2:

The list of nominees is complete, with one nominee pending Karma recalculation. Please review the list, and feel free to ask questions either here, on the mailing list, or on the wiki page. All candidates will be encouraged to answer community questions, preferably in a format that can be easily wiki-fied.

Just as a reminder, those that want to vote should be sure they have 10 Karma. Note that in order for your TMO activity to count, you must link your TMO account to your Maemo.org account. Be sure to do that if you have not done so already!

Edit: For reasons not entierly clear, this Council blog post did not create a matching TMO thread. Instead, one has been created for disucssion by the Chair with referal links to this page.

Community Council Meeting with Nemein (august 31st, 2012)

ivgalvez@gmail.com (Ivan Galvez Junquera) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:14:47 +0000

In an effort to increase transparency and access for the community, Council holds public meetings each Friday at 18:00UTC. This was an specific meeting with Nemein about infrastructure.

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs) at 15:00 UTC

Attending: SD69, X-Fade, merlin1991, ivgalvez

Summary:

## Transference of administration to volunteers.

Merlin1991 was granted with some administrative rights on repositories (delete and promote applications), however it's not yet working correctly. X-Fade will dig into it.
We have also requested to add more administration permissions and more people to the working group. Next meeting will take place at same time next week.

## Current needs for voting system

- Council elections might take place beginning October, we'll need X-Fade support to setup voting process.
- By-laws approval might take place beginning October at the same time than Council election, we'll need X-Fade support to setup voting process.
- Coding Competition will need voting mechanism by mid September, we'll need X-Fade support to setup voting process.

## Situation of servers and contracts

- Council will talk to Henri, from Nemein, to know the required budget for hosting Maemo services.

- New Council, if by laws are approved should decide about keeping servers with Nemein by end October, so a proper decision about continuing with Nemein will be ready beginning November.

- Servers are paid by Nokia until the end of December so contract could be transferred to legal entity in the beginning of November.

- If decided, migration could begin in November, to avoid getting too close to December and holidays.

Next meeting with X-Fade will be held #maemo-meeting next Friday September, 7th 15:00 UTC

Community Council Meeting (august 24th, 2012)

nieldk@gmail.com (Niel Nielsen) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:39:13 +0000

In an effort to increase transparency and access for the community, Council holds public meetings each Friday at 18:00UTC. Meeting logs are available at any time, and minutes are posted to the Council blog soon after (usually the following Monday).

Council logs for meeting on August 24th, 2012

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-meeting-irclog/%23maemo-meeting.2012-08-24.log.html)

Attending: nieldk

## Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

Update on bylaws and presentation/setup for NFP
Infrastructure migration issues
CSSU support and issues
Misc topics.

## Topic 1: Update on bylaws
SD69 have updated bylaws document in order to publish it for community feedback. It is published on wiki (http://maemo.org/community/council/by-laws_for_hildonfoundation/) for community members review, feedback and final acceptance.
This issue is blocker for several actions, including:
- Elections for next Council/Board of Directors, we'd like to use one single voting for both elections and Bylaws approval
- Legal entity, that will took place after elections.

Other open issues from previous Council meeting is postponed due to Council members on vacation.

By-Laws for Hildonfoundation

nieldk@gmail.com (Niel Nielsen) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:37:01 +0000

SD69 have updated bylaws document in order to publish it for community feedback. It is published here in full, for community members review, feedback and final acceptance.

This issue is blocker for several actions, including:
- Elections for next Council/Board of Directors, we'd like to use one single voting for both elections and Bylaws approval
- Legal entity, that will took place after elections.

It is by all means not a final document, and only a suggestion from the current Council for establising a legal entity to continue the Maemo society.

Therefore the feedback after review is necessary from community members and a final acceptance of the community is needed in order to establish a legal entity to be responsible for carrying out the Maemo.org infrastructure.

RevisedHildonFoundationBylaws.docx

Community Council Meeting (august 17th, 2012)

ivgalvez@gmail.com (Ivan Galvez Junquera) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:50:00 +0000

Council logs for meeting on August 17th, 2012

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: nieldk, Pali, ivgalvez

## Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

Update on bylaws and presentation/setup for NFP
Infrastructure migration issues
CSSU support and issues
Misc topics.

## Topic 1: Update on bylaws

Still pending on SD69 to update bylaws document in order to publish it for community feedback. As it was previously discussed during last Council meeting (August 10th) Woody14169 will review it himself in case SD69 is not available and publish it. If it's not prepared by the end of this week, we will publish it as is.

This issue is blocker for several actions, including:

- Elections for next Council/Board of Directors, we'd like to use one single voting for both elections and Bylaws approval

- Legal entity, that will took place after elections.

## Topic 2: Infrastructure migration issues

Woody14619 commented during last Council Meeting that merlin1991 had finally obtained the administrative rights to repositories but something wasn't working correctly in the web interface.

merlin1991 is right now on holidays so it's unclear what's the status about this issuem. In the meantime. ivgalvez has sent a few emails to both X-Fade and merlin1991.

## Topic 3: CSSU support and issues

A new CSSU Testing release is planned for this week.

A new version of CSSU enabler is now in devel (should by in Testing by next week) and is candidate to land in Extras to allow users to install CSSU via HAM without the need to enter TMO.

ivgalvez has asked via ML for the conclusions from last CSSU meeting and also proposed to keep fixed scheduled meetings.