[maemo-community] Council thread : who wants my vote - and why?

[From: Tim]

My turn...
 
> What do you bring to the council that no other candidate does?

I'm a media industry veteran with a pragmatic philosophy of user experience
issues, end-user satisfaction, and digital media in general. I value
customability, but at the same time, understand a need to create an end
product that is usable and sellable. I work in a large corporation (20,000
employees) and understand and can navigate corporate bureaucracy as well as
budgeting and cycle time issues -- I've also been highly successful in
learning how to circumvent some of these potential blockers. I am versed on
the Mac, PC, and Linux platforms and realize that while they all have
aspects that keep the end-user in mind, there are lots of things in every
platform that still need a lot of work.

> What do you expect to achieve on/with the council? What's your top
> priority issue to resolve, and how do you plan to help make that happen?

I would like to see a centralized location for Maemo/maemo.org information
to be stored and presented. A lot has been achieved with the new wiki so
far, and I see great potential for its use in the future. I aim to help
correlate the variety of sources for Maemo-related information (from within
and outside of the community) into a place that's easily accessible by all
community members, whether this be through a "Council Blog," or other wise.

> Where do you want to see the council at the end of your term in 6 months?

In six months, the council should have:

* A firm grasp on an organizational process for Maemo dissemination
* An internal (and documented) governing process that deals with Council
   meeting schedules, Council-related announcements, communication
   with Nokia, and community advocacy
* A concrete method for new Council nominations and election
* A roadmap for Maemo Summit 2009

> From: David Greaves <david at dgreaves.com>
> What are you going to do if you get it?

Go to Disneyland.

TIm

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> Subject: maemo-community Digest, Vol 24, Issue 14
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> Date: 09/06/2008 3:00 am
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> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:05:00 +0200
> From: Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org>
> Subject: Re: Council thread : who wants my vote - and why?
> To: List for community development <maemo-community at maemo.org>
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> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for starting this thread! I was wondering when someone was going
to.
> 
> David Greaves wrote:
> > I have a vote.
> > 
> > Who wants it?
> > 
> > What are you going to do if you get it?
> 
> I'd ask a couple of slightly different questions (hopefully the answers
> will answer your questions too):
> 
> What do you bring to the council that no other candidate does?
> 
> What do you expect to achieve on/with the council? What's your top
> priority issue to resolve, and how do you plan to help make that happen?
> 
> Where do you want to see the council at the end of your term in 6 months?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
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