Council Nomination: YoDude

I have recently joined this list and I am posting today in order to nominate
myself for election to the Maemo Community Council.

I am not an active Maemo or MeeGo developer. The N900 is the first Nokia
"phone" I have ever owned.

I have however, used an N800, N810, or an N900 as my mobile Internet
connection in and outside work and home every day for over 3 years now.
Prior to that my need for internet access via cell phone connection had me
using whatever hardware was available. At that time it was an iPAQ 4200
series running Windows Mobile 2003. This solution left a lot to be desired.

With the release of the NIT's I felt that Nokia accurately realized the
concept I was working with. I have been a power user ever since and believe
I will continue to be one as this concept continues to evolve with MeeGo.

I do have a blog that I have maintained since 2005. I do not advertise this
on the forums because the purpose of this blog is to support my posts in
various mobile forums and not the other way around. I only mention it here
for those who do not know me and would like some sort of reference from
which to evaluate my sincerity

My first NIT blog post was in March of 2007
>> http://my.opera.com/yodude/blog/2007/03/24/gotta-love-the-nokia-n800

I believe that the Community Council we elect should have some
representation from the average customer/user base. I also believe that the
forums are, and will continue to be the communication means of choice for
many engaged users. I also believe that some of the future leaders of our
community will come from within the ranks of these engaged users.

Recently a current member of the Maemo Community Council posted that it was
his desire during his term:
"...to make the "engaged users" segment of this community a more important
part of the community's "core". It always frustrated me that the decision
makers often chose to marginalize the forum users because they were too
many, too unruly, too... unmanageable. By doing the important business on
the mailing lists and IRC instead of the forums, it kept the noise down, but
at the expense of losing a huge pool of resources."

I wholeheartedly agree with his statement and as a prospective Maemo
Community Council candidate I will stand as a rep for "engaged users" and
promise to pick up the torch that this Maemo Community Council member lit to
keep the forums under the gaze of the decision makers in this community as
well as the community that is forming over at meego.com.

>> http://talk.maemo.orgn/showpost.php?p=565836&postcount=38

Future MeeGo devices will rest on a community platform supported by three
legs. The legs represent the software developers, the hardware
manufacturers, and the eventual customer/users of those devices. Although
the three legged stool analogy may be a bit tired, in this case it may be
accurate none the less. If one of those legs is either longer or shorter
than the other two or worse, each leg is of a different length, the platform
is unstable and the devices resting on it will not be presented at their
level best.

Thank you for your considerations and for the time taken while reading this
rather long first post.

With best regards,

Steven Paolini Yeager
maemo.org member: YoDude

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On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 14:55, S P Yeager <yodude@ovi.com> wrote:
>
> I have recently joined this list and I am posting today in order to nominate
> myself for election to the Maemo Community Council.

Thanks Steven. I've a few questions for the candidates, your answers
would be appreciated:


Sprint process
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is the main organised point of contact between Nokia, the paid
contributors and the community, however the maemo.org sprint process
is quite heavy for volunteers and it often seems to be a checklist
affair; rather than a collaborative planning exercise.

1) Do you see any flaws in it, and how do you think it can be improved?

2) What are your thoughts on ongoing communication during the sprint?


MeeGo
~~~~~
MeeGo is, IMHO, the single biggest thing to happen to Maemo since the
770. In many ways, it's the opening up of the design processes that
many of us have wanted in Maemo for so long. As Maemo as an operating
system disappears, this will have a big effect on the community.

3) As we move from "day zero" to "day one", what do you think the
priorities for the MeeGo community should be?

4) Should leaders in the MeeGo community (whether from a Moblin or
Maemo background) try to move the existing communities with them to
form the MeeGo community; or should a new community form around the
operating system and its devices?

4a) If yes, what steps should be taken to prevent overreactions and
allegations of "take over" that happened when internettablettalk.com's
theme changed to match the rest of maemo.org?

4b) If no, how do you see the relationship between the Maemo community
which has been "left behind" and the MeeGo community? How does the
Maemo community stay vibrant if large portions on moving on to Maemo's
successor, or drifting away to other mobile platforms?

5) What are your thoughts about existing maemo.org resources (such as
Extras, auto-builder, Bugzilla) as Nokia, and the paid contributors,
look to the future?


Community
~~~~~~~~~

6) How can we encourage more, and higher quality, applications for
Maemo - and specifically through Extras?


Thanks for your time in answering these questions. Your answers are
much appreciated.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Andrew Flegg wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 14:55, S P Yeager <yodude@ovi.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have recently joined this list and I am posting today in order to
>> nominate
>> myself for election to the Maemo Community Council.
>
> Thanks Steven. I've a few questions for the candidates, your answers
> would be appreciated:
>
>
> Sprint process
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> This is the main organised point of contact between Nokia, the paid
> contributors and the community, however the maemo.org sprint process
> is quite heavy for volunteers and it often seems to be a checklist
> affair; rather than a collaborative planning exercise.
>
> 1) Do you see any flaws in it, and how do you think it can be improved?
>
> 2) What are your thoughts on ongoing communication during the sprint?
>
>
> MeeGo
> ~~~~~
> MeeGo is, IMHO, the single biggest thing to happen to Maemo since the
> 770. In many ways, it's the opening up of the design processes that
> many of us have wanted in Maemo for so long. As Maemo as an operating
> system disappears, this will have a big effect on the community.
>
> 3) As we move from "day zero" to "day one", what do you think the
> priorities for the MeeGo community should be?
>
> 4) Should leaders in the MeeGo community (whether from a Moblin or
> Maemo background) try to move the existing communities with them to
> form the MeeGo community; or should a new community form around the
> operating system and its devices?
>
> 4a) If yes, what steps should be taken to prevent overreactions and
> allegations of "take over" that happened when internettablettalk.com's
> theme changed to match the rest of maemo.org?
>
> 4b) If no, how do you see the relationship between the Maemo community
> which has been "left behind" and the MeeGo community? How does the
> Maemo community stay vibrant if large portions on moving on to Maemo's
> successor, or drifting away to other mobile platforms?
>
> 5) What are your thoughts about existing maemo.org resources (such as
> Extras, auto-builder, Bugzilla) as Nokia, and the paid contributors,
> look to the future?
>
>
> Community
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> 6) How can we encourage more, and higher quality, applications for
> Maemo - and specifically through Extras?
>
>
> Thanks for your time in answering these questions. Your answers are
> much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/

>

Thank you Andrew,

I have posted my response on the community forum.

>> http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=570079&postcount=96

I'm glad you eventually decided to run, BTW.
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S P Yeager wrote:
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>
> Thank you Andrew,
>
> I have posted my response on the community forum.
>
>>> http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=570079&postcount=96
>
> I'm glad you eventually decided to run, BTW.
>

Answers to additional member questions as well as more background
information can also be found here >>
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=572804&postcount=107
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I concede! :rules:

The concession prize I received for my involvement in the process of this
terms community council election is that the candidate I did nominate,
javispedro became one of the newer faces on the council.

Congratulations to Randall Arnold, Andrew Flegg, Attila Csipa, Javier S.
Pedro, and Ryan Abel on their election to this, the 4th Maemo Community
Council.

Although I concede the vote to whom those I also believe are perhaps better
qualified to promote and execute current council business, I do not concede
the premise that motivated my involvement in this election in the first
place.

I believe that focusing the energy of "engaged users" into a more productive
and valuable asset that then could be used by the whole community, should be
the legacy of this next council's term. The lessons learned and skills
acquired in doing so with an improved sense of urgency, could be the "sauce"
that this community will bring to the table from which the new MeeGo
community develops.

Thanks for reading...
and many thanks to those who voted for me.

-YoDude






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