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Microsoft buys Nokia "Devices and Services" division for $7.2 billion

In what, perhaps, should not be an unsurprising outcome of the appointment of Stephen Elop to head Nokia, Microsoft will be acquiring Nokia's devices and services division as part of a nearly $7.2 billion deal to be finalized early next year, pending regulatory approval:

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Autobuilder & Extras Assistant for Maemo 4 fixed

More good news on the autobuilder and Extras Assistant front. Ivaylo Dimitrov's continued hard work has brought them back online for Maemo 4: "I am glad to say that freemangordon have fixed Maemo autobuilder & Extras Assistant for Maemo 4. The packages appear in Maemo Packages interface, are promoted, etc."

Big thanks for the continued hard work from all of the community volunteers helping to ensure both that the maemo.org infrastructure keeps running and that degraded services are brought back to life.

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   • Autobuilder & Extras Assistant for Maemo 4 fixed
2. Applications
   • Wazapp nightly 34 test
   • Gameplay video of chro.mono
3. Announcements
   • Deb packages creator for Harmattan

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Maemo autobuilder & package interface now fully working again

Ivaylo Dimitrov has completed a substantial part of rebuilding and maintaining the maemo.org infrastructure: the autobuilder and Packages interfaces are now working again (for Maemo 5, at least):

"All of you who were using extras-devel as a replacement to extras, disable extras-devel and extras-testing repositories. Now our packages infra is(or at least looks like) functional, we should revert to the way all this is supposed to work. Testers/users - please do your job and vote for the packages in testing. Developers - promote the stuff to extras." maemo.org is still understaffed, so anyone with any PHP skills, interested in maintaining the Midgard infrastructure which holds everything together, should get in touch with techstaff@maemo.org.

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   • Maemo autobuilder & package interface now fully working again
2. Development
   • Devel RT @jukkaeklund: Porting apps from #MeeGo Harmattan to #sailfishos. https://t.co/qkRfRY2647
3. Announcements
   • Power Menu QML

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Hildon Foundation Board minutes for meeting on July 16th

The Hildon Foundation is the relatively new body which has taken on legal responsiblity for maemo.org from Nokia. The newest, recently elected, board had their first meeting on IRC to appoint Andrew Flegg as Chair, Craig Woodward as Secretary, win7mac as Treasurer and Ryan Abel as Comms Officer. Rüdiger Schiller is also on the board.

The meeting was a fairly run-of-the-mill handover meeting, focusing on logistics; with Joerg Reisenweber representing the Council and, thus, the users of maemo.org. Unfortunately, due to an administrative oversight, the meeting wasn't pre-announced, but this will be corrected for the next meeting.

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Hildon Foundation Board minutes for meeting on July 16th

The Hildon Foundation is the relatively new body which has taken on legal responsiblity for maemo.org from Nokia. The newest, recently elected, board had their first meeting on IRC to appoint Andrew Flegg as Chair, Craig Woodward as Secretary, win7mac as Treasurer and Ryan Abel as Comms Officer. Rüdiger Schiller is also on the board.

The meeting was a fairly run-of-the-mill handover meeting, focusing on logistics; with Joerg Reisenweber representing the Council and, thus, the users of maemo.org. Unfortunately, due to an administrative oversight, the meeting wasn't pre-announced, but this will be corrected for the next meeting.

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OpenRepos replaces MeeGo OBS with repositories for community apps

Basil Semuonov has posted to TMO to launch a new service for developers: "Remember the sweet holy time when Meego OBS was alive, and you had your very own personal repository? Well, that awesome time has returned!"

"OpenRepos is a community driven personal repository system for Harmattan and Sailfish operating systems. It provides a repository which can be enabled on your device."

The project still seems to be bootstrapping itself at the moment, but has a laudable goal. It would be good to see this combined, though, with existing efforts on a maemo.org OBS and fit into the existing maemo.org repository system; expanding it to support Harmattan - although that might leave Sailfish a little underhandled.

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   • OpenRepos replaces MeeGo OBS with repositories for community apps
2. Applications
   • Replacement Dropbox sharing client for Nokia N9
3. Community
   • Tribal Method creative group unveiled by Texrat

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Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election results in

The results from the Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election for Q2 2013 are in: "Winners are Craig Woodward (Woody14619), Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles), Andrew Flegg (Jaffa), Rüdiger Schiller (chemist), and Gido Griese (Win7Mac)." 113 ballots were submitted (1 empty).

After some missteps in the Hildon Foundation's early life, and a developing image problem within the community, this is a huge opportunity to get the Hildon Foundation back on course by making sure maemo.org's techstaff and the community council have the tools and support they need to ensure maemo.org and the Maemo Community continue operating smoothly.

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   • Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election results in
2. Development
   • Panda QML framework announced
   • NemoMobile planning UI facelift
3. Community
   • Logs from last week's council meeting on 2013-06-29

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Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election opened

The Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election opened on Saturday 2013-06-22 last week. It will run for 7 days, ending at 23:59 UTC on Friday 2013-06-28. The candidates are: Ryan Abel, Andrew Flegg, Win7 Mac, Krzysztof Kuska Rüdiger Schiller, and Craig Woodward. The list of candidates and their nominations are available on the wiki. A questionnaire thread for candidates was also posted on the forum (the last link in this post), the candidates' answers and their nominations are recommended reading before voting.

Emails with voting tokens went out to eligible voters on Friday. maemo.org users with a karma of 10 or higher and an account at least 3 months old are eligible to vote. If you feel you are eligible and did not get a token, check in on the election thread on Talk (second link in this post).

Please remember to cast your vote. Good election turnouts are appreciated by everybody involved with maemo.org, and can be especially invigorating for an incoming body. It also helps ensure the elected candidates will be acceptable to a broader range of community members. Even casting an empty ballot is useful if you'd like to register your protest of some part (or all) of the election.

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maemo.org maintenance on Tuesday 2013-06-25 from 0700 to 0900 UTC

maemo.org will be experiencing temporary service interruptions on Tuesday 2013-06-25 from 0700 to approximately 0900 UTC while a new switch is installed.

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   • Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election opened
   • maemo.org maintenance on Tuesday 2013-06-25 from 0700 to 0900 UTC
2. Applications
   • MeeFox 1.0.3a released
3. Community
   • Last week's Hildon Foundation Board of Directors meeting cancelled due lack of attendance
   • Nokia's Harmattan developer site back online (for now)

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Contemplation period begins for Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election

The nomination period for the Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election ended Friday last week. The final candidate list is: Ryan Abel, Andrew Flegg, Krzysztof Kuska, Rüdiger Schiller, Win7 Mac, and Craig Woodward. 6 candidates, assuming all 6 last through the contemplation period, are enough to elect a board of 5 members.

"The contemplation period runs from June 15th"

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Aligning Maemo Community Council and Hildon Foundation Council

Last week, Joerg Reisenweber announced that the membership of the Maemo Community Council and the Hildon Foundation Council would change to accomodate the merger of both councils into a Unified Council:

"As I am sure you know by now the objective of the recent Referendum was to align HFC and MCC together, hence forming a Council with similar rules including a few tweaks to adjust to new practicalities; instead of being a Nokia conduit. This will allow the two bodies to be aligned for the current and any future term. Hildon Foundation will therefore be left with one Council and a Board of Directors. In future this shall result in a single election performed for the unified council. For the above to happen it is required that the elections for HFC and MCC members are to be the same. This unfortunately didn't happen and we are currently left with one different member in each body, out of the five."

sixwheeledbeast and Kash will still play a role in the decision making processes for the new Unified Council, and the unification of the two bodies should hopefully reduce confusion and unnecessary bureaucratic contortions.

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   • Contemplation period begins for Hildon Foundation Board of Directors election
   • Aligning Maemo Community Council and Hildon Foundation Council
2. Community
   • Hildon Foundation Board of Directors meeting this week
   • Logs from last week's council meeting
   • jaffa running for Hildon Foundation Board of Directors
   • fw190 running for Hildon Foundation Board of Directors
   • win7mac running for Hildon Foundation Board of Directors
3. Devices
   • Developing GTA04 internals for a Nokia N900?

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Nokia's funding for maemo.org is ending: call for donations

Council member, Joerg Reisenweber has announced a need for donations to keep all of maemo.org running as Nokia step back from support: "I have to inform all of you that we're approaching a critical date for all of us: Nokia is about to stop funding our infrastructure and board and council are busy to establish a new set of servers to run all the bits we need to continue with our daily maemo-life. First impact is on this very forum, which we need to either move to a new server until end of the year, or as a last resort find some 500 bucks to buy one more month of operation on the old one, until we established the move end of January then. There are other expenses the board is facing right now to ensure a smooth continuation of services like repositories, wiki, whatnot else."