Re: Council nomination: Andrea Grandi

Seconded.  Andrea would be an outstanding representative IMO.

Randall (Randy) Arnold
maemo.org community council
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> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Andrea Grandi‎" <a.grandi@gmail.com>
> To: "List for community development‎" <maemo-community@maemo.org>
> Subject: Council nomination: Andrea Grandi
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:14:26 +0100
>
>
>Hello,
>
> my name is Andrea Grandi, from Italy. Most of you probably already
> know me, but I'll introduce myself for people who joined later.
>
> I'm a computer science student at Università degli Studi di Firenze
> and I've worked in the past as software developer for some companies.
> I also lead the Linux user group of my city (PtLUG), and for this
> reason my programming interests are directed to opensource
> development.
> Working for PtLUG I've also gained a lot of experience about how to
> relate to a community and how to organize events.
>
> Past and present in Maemo Community
>
> I joined the Maemo Community since the first Maemo device was out
> (Nokia 770) and I've been always so excited for being able to
> contribute to this project.
> In the past I've attended at both Maemo Summit doing a short talk.
> During last summer I collaborated with PyMaemo team during a stage at
> Igalia and at the moment I'm developing a couple of applications using
> Python and Qt.
>
> Areas where I could help in the council
>
> In the Maemo Council I could help mainly for two things. First of all
> I could help for the organization of the events. Finding a strategic
> place to organize an event and selecting interesting contents to
> attract more people is not an easy task. I think that there are still
> some areas where we can work better to give to the Community a better
> Summit.
> Being a developer too I think I could help improving tools that Maemo
> developers use. For example a lot of work could be done to improve the
> Maemo Garage (did you notice that main Maemo project have their code
> in Gitorius, mailing list on Maemo Garage, website on another hosting
> service ecc...... ?!).
>
> What I would like to do in the Council
>
> - Maemo(MeeGo) Summit organization: as I already said, there are some
> areas that we could improve and I'm going to work in this direction.
> - Promoting developers contests: a nice way to attract developers is
> challenging them. We could organize a contest and I'm sure that a lot
> of interesting applications could be created by community.
> - Improving the "getting started" part of all areas: I've noticed that
> for a new developers or users has never been easy to find where to
> start from. I think that a lot could be done to improve this.
>
> Of course I've also other ideas for the Community, but first of all
> let's see how this Maemo+Moblin fusion will evolve. We are no more
> just "Maemo" now, we are a larger community so I think it's better to
> start as soon as possible working together to create the best
> community ever :)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Andrea Grandi
> email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT] com
> website: http://www.andreagrandi.it
> PGP Key: http://www.andreagrandi.it/pgp_key.asc
>

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Hi,

Randall Arnold wrote:
> Seconded. Andrea would be an outstanding representative IMO.

While canvassing for your favourite candidate is fine, I just want to
remind everyone that there is no need to second someone who proposes
themselves.

However, for candidates nominated by someone else, the nomination does
need to be accepted to be validated.

Thanks!
Dave.

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