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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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1. Front Page
   • 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?

Dear community.

Firstly we would like to thank all the people who voted in the recent elections. Your say matters and it's important that you "the community" have your say on who will represent us. 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 did not happen and we are currently left with one different member in each body, out of the five.

The members of the Councils to be aligned are:

Maemo Community Council
 Rüdiger Schiller / chemist
 Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw
 Christian Ratzenhofer / merlin1991
 Michael Demetriou / qwazix
 Aakash Sadh  / thedead1440

Hildon Foundation Council
 Rüdiger Schiller / chemist
 Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw
 Christian Ratzenhofer / merlin1991
 Michael Demetriou / qwazix
 Paul Healy / sixwheeledbeast

We feel three bodies will cause great confusion to the community and will be counter-productive.

Therefore to solve matters, sixwheeledbeast and thedead1440 stepped down with immediate effect from HFC and MCC respectively. While they step down to allow the alignment of the two Councils into one singular body, the current Council
for its term must listen to the opinions the aforementioned two may have on any topics before council reaching a consensus.

Hence the aligned Hildon Foundation Council members now are:

Rüdiger Schiller / chemist
Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw
Christian Ratzenhofer / merlin1991
Michael Demetriou / qwazix

We believe the above is an important step for moving the Community forward with a unified Council in the post-Nokia era.

So:
MCC  hereby declares the bodies of HFC and MCC to be one single body in perpetuity.

Further,

MCC agrees to align all future changes to be in line with HFC's procedures of change so that the Bylaws are adhered to.
and:
HFC hereby declares the bodies of HFC and MCC to be one single body in perpetuity.  Further, HFC accepts as it's own all existing rules, electorate processes and generals of MCC, including future changes, as it's own.

Regards
Maemo Community Council & Hildon Foundation Council coalition.

Date: 21/08/2012
Tags: Crunchbang, Waldorf, TeamViewer
Title: TeamViewer on Waldorf Crunchbang 64bits

TeamViewer is a remote control tool that can be found on the TeamViewer web site.

Only package for ubuntu are provided, but the package can be installed directly on Crunchbang.

Except for the 64 bits version where some dependancies aren't installed correctly (the 32bits libs). Waldorf is based on debian testing and so use multi arch. We need it to install teamviewer else at the first launch we will got an tvwine.dll.so missing error.

We need to activate first the arch i386 :

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

Then we need to install missing dependancies :

sudo apt-get install libxext:i386 ia32-libs

Title: BitPurse, KhtNotes and KhtSimpleText development version
Tags: bitpurse, khtnotes, khtsimpletext, git, github, drone.io
Date: 19/04/2013

Each time code modifications in the github repository of KhtNotes, KhtSimpleText or BitPurse are pushed,
drone.io build a new debian package of the apps for Harmattan.

So if you want to try development version of KhtNotes, BitPurse or KhtSimpleText,
now you can without building them yourself

Date: 11/08/2010
Tags:
Title: News feed and a new design

I've just fix the news atom feed and also set a more simple design for the
website as i found the previous one was too dark.

Title: BitPurse 2.0.1 available in Nokia Store
Date: 19/04/2013
Tags: Bitcoin, Harmattan, MeeGo, BitPurse

BitPurse 2.0.1 is now available in Nokia Store : BitPurse 2.0.1 in Nokia Store

A donation will be appreciate : 18tFSEMgeHbCK28hAC81RT6cNCjCDZ91sx

Alternate Downloads:

This new version should be available soon in Nokia Store, and MeeGo COBS and
is already available here : BitPurse 2.0.1

When last time I was in Cambridge we had a discussion about ARM processors. Paweł used term “ARMology” then. And with recent announcement of Cortex-A12 cpu core I thought that it may be a good idea to write a blog post about it.

The growth of mobile web users is staggering. While some of us have been browsing the web on mobile devices for nearly ten years, most of the world population is only now getting there.

I win the prize for last-to-write-about-conference, hands down. I had enough time to come up with solid excuses of course: Right after GNOME.Asia Summit in Seoul I went on to Tokyo, for two more conferences. And after that, I've been busy with my vacations.

With a direct flight from London (LHR) to Seoul (ICN), I was lucky enough to fly on Korean Air. Only Quatar Airways comes close in terms of service, though I still like their aubergine-colored uniforms more. Incheon Airport won a "best airport" award several times in a row, and I think it's well-earned. It starts with the gorgeous view when flying in, but the best argument going for the airport is probably A'REX, an affordable, fast and reliable railway line that connects Icheon with the most important spots in the city. Taxi drivers will try to convince you otherwise but don't be fooled, there's no competition to that line.

I stayed near Hongik University station, which is serviced by A'REX. It's a great location, especially at night. Tristan, our famous GTK+/Glade (and now also EDS) hacker, decided to stay nearby so we could go out for drinks and cure my jetlag with great food and a hangover. The hangover didn't happen (too much food?) and neither did the jetlag. As I arrived a couple of days early, I had enough time to discover the city a bit and prepare for the conference (read: slides and stuff). My talk about Wayland input methods seemed to be well received. It lead to a couple of good discussions about text input in general.

The venue was difficult to find in this maze of office buildings. It was good to see old & new friends at the summit though I had hoped for a lot more attendees. Perhaps (local?) advertising the event at universites would have helped. At least in my perception, the target audience for F/OSS development have always been students with enough spare time on their hands to try out stupid things (such as writing free software). I have come to prefer 3-day conferences over 2-day conferences. Two days just doesn't allow for enough hallway discussions as your time to attend talks is very limited. Spreading talks out over three days gives me a better opportunity to balance between talks and hallway track. I wish for instance that FOSDEM wasn't crammed into two days. The other extreme are probably Akademy and GUADEC that go over a week if you count BoFs and workshops as part of the confernence. But I am pretty sure that two days are too short ;-)

Thanks to the GNOME Foundation for 1) accepting my membership \o/ 2) approving my travel sponsorship. This would not have happened without my talk being accepted, which as I understand from talking to others who submitted session proposals was a quite lucky circumstance on its own.

The newly elected Hildon Foundation Council (HFC) provide the new Hildon Foundation Board eligibility rules (see appendix) for Board of Directors elections and announce elections for HiFo's BoD.

The nomination period for said BoD elections will start on the June 1st 0:00UTC and will end on June 14th 23:59UTC, the contemplation period runs from June 15th 0:00UTC till June 21st 23:59UTC, and voting then runs from June 22nd 0:00UTC till June 28th 23:59UTC.

Appendix - Hildon Foundation Board Candidate Eligibility Rules

1. Nominations will be accepted 3 weeks before the election begins from any community member with a karma of 100 or above.

2. Nominees with a commercial interest in Maemo or Hildon Foundation, such as working for Nokia - or any other company involved with software development - must declare their interest when advertising their nomination. Failure to do so may result in the HFC, declaring their nomination invalid and so bar them from standing in the current election.

3. Elections last for 1 week.

4. Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months and have karma of 10 or above, may vote.

5. Each community member eligible to vote gets a single ballot.

6. The 7 nominees voted for most, as counted by a single transferrable vote system are elected. (For special cases see HiFo bylaws.)

7. There is no limit to the number of times a board member can stand for re-election.

Your Chairman Chemist