Renewing my nomination for the new nominations period. On May 20, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Ryan Abel <rabe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I've decided to toss my hat into the ring for the Hildon Foundation > Board election. > > Most of you who've been around the Maemo Community for a while probably know > me. If not personally, I'd guess through reputation, but for those of you who > don't: > > Hello, my name is Ryan Abel. I go by GeneralAntilles online. > > I've owned a Maemo device since the beginning of 2006 (around the time the > 770 became available in the US), and began participating on Internet Tablet > Talk at that time. I began contributing seriously to Maemo in 2007 when > timeless helped get me involved in bugzilla. > > In 2008, Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) proposed an idea that would help put the Maemo > Community in charge of its own direction. Jaffa's idea became the Maemo > Community Council. Simon Pickering (lardman) and myself were involved with > helping Jaffa to bring that idea into fruition. All three of us served on the > inaugural council (myself, as a rather inexperienced chair) and on the 2nd > council (and Jaffa and I on the 4th council). Since then, I've been involved > with bugzilla, the wiki, and various community facilitation issues. I've also > been one of the editors (along with Jaffa and fiferboy) bringing you MWKN for > the past two years. > > Although Maemo is not as much in my daily life as it has been (I'm using a > BlackBerry Z10 these days), it still holds an important place in my heart. > It's the community that introduce me to, and got me involved in, open source; > has given me the opportunity to attend international conferences; and > introduced me to close friends from all over the planet. I want to help > ensure that it remains as vibrant a community as it always has been. > > The Hildon Foundation has had a rough start. Politics and personal grand > visions have taken a front seat to the foundation's primary mission: ensuring > the continued operation of maemo.org and its services for the Maemo Community. > > Despite these diversions, the foundation has raised enough money to keep > mameo.org running, and heroic volunteer efforts from the community have > provided the expertise to ensure that maemo.org's complex infrastructure > operates more smoothly than it has in the past (and stays operating). (I > won't name names, but make sure you thank your volunteer sysops! These > skilled individuals have taken on a very complex, and time consuming, project > in volunteering to maintain maemo.org.) > > I have one goal in mind in running for the Hildon Foundation Board: to help > make keeping maemo.org running as painless as possible. > > Long-term, the community may need to branch out. An obsolete, unsupported > platform is not going to provide the fertile soil to maintain a vibrant > community forever. But, ultimately, any growth into new focuses must be > organic and bottom-up. Strategic partnerships with Jolla, Canonical, Qt or > whomever established by the Hildon Foundation will not be productive unless a > large percentage of the community's interest is focused on those things. > > maemo.org's power is found in the multitude of individuals who contribute to > it in a wide variety of ways. Individuals in the community must be the ones > to steer the direction of the community, not dictates and decrees from a > board of facilitators. > > I hope to assist in keeping this community healthy from the Hildon Foundation > Board (if you all will have me). This is an important time for the Maemo > Community to determine its future direction, and I want to help ensure that > we are able to do so.
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