I dont expect anybody to vote for me with so many good and well known candidates but I have had such a good experience with this community that I would like to get more involved with it.
All the community/open source experience I have I own to this community. I am an independent software developer and started writing software long ago when the new kids on the block were talking about windows. I own an n800 and couldnt wait to get my hands on the n900 after I heard about it. I have to say that got disappointed but finding this community has made all the difference. One common complaint I hear about maemo is the supposedly small number of applications. While I dont agree this is necessary true, it is clear that maemo has failed to attract commercial applications. I dont see why an open platform based on open source has necessary to scare off commercial applications. One common subject among consumers is how the n900 compares to android and the iphone the applications available always end up being the most important maemo disadvantage. Also, how many times have you read about how bad/useless the ovi store is for maemo? It is obvious that the hardware will not evolve but the software can. We may get a chance or two to update the OS with plain vanilla meego but eventually that will also stop. I believe that the ability to get new applications to be the most important aspect of keeping our devices/community alive. We must make sure that Qt and Qt Mobility packages will continue to evolve/exist on the n900, I would even say that we have to invest on getting the latest qt back ported to the Diablo as well n800 owners are a big part of this community. More important than my candidacy I would like to offer some questions for the candidates and future council: - Is meego a suitable replacement for the maemo community? We have debian but there is also the ubuntu community. All this assuming that at some point it will make sense to replace fremantle with some meego flavor. - Can we find sponsors for the maemo so we can continue to exist? Cant we talk Nokia into making maemo the house for the new nokia meego devices? I am quite sure Nokia will also have a meego by nokia community of some sort. - Can we figure out some model where the device owners will contribute money so their devices dont get obsolete? Anybody that had to pay for the device will probably not mind paying to get better/more software. Maybe bringing somehow the ovi store for the n900 to the maemo community will be enough to justify maintaining it. - Unrelated but important: Security and Privacy. Shouldnt this be an important issue? How can we just ignore all the current vulnerabilities? My name is Felipe Crochik, I was born in Brazil and live in the U.S. I have created MyContacts (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57162), WakeOnLan (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=52058), ported (and enhanced) Macuco (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=51487) and tried to help other developers with my experience. If there is any room for a fresh/green candidate I believe my experience with consumer software development can be useful to the community as the community experience has been very useful to me. I hope my ignorance will help bring some new arguments/ideas to the table. Please forgive me for being so naïve. Felipe
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