[maemo-community] Post-election and Summer(north)-Winter(south) device program

[From: Timo Härkönen]

Yep. please join in. The meetings are held every monday @ 15:00 UTC

wiki task page for the obs work here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_OBS

-Timo

2012/5/25 robert bauer <nybauer at gmail.com>

> COBS people are X-Fade, javispedro, timoph, lbt (to some extent).  I
> suggest joining their meeting rather than asking them to check in with
> available times for a new meeting.
>
> On community awards, there is a history of council awarding themselves
> maemo conference sponsorships, etc.  I don't see device awards as much
> different (except that device should not be given to somebody who already
> has one).  QGil has already indicated on the forum I believe that the
> community can decide how to do community awards.
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Piotr Jawidzyk <twilight312 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I would like to personally thank everyone participating in Council
>> election - people voting, candidates, and, finally, elected
>> Councilors.
>>
>> Especially thanks for people involving in starting voting - thanks for
>> help X-Fade, Qgil and others!
>> ---
>>
>> Now, as 6 months isn't long period, and we have *much* work to do,
>> I'll go straight to merit:
>>
>> 1. I would like organize Council meeting (IRC) with people that are
>> working on COBS, during next week. Generally, 18 UTC and later was
>> proposed during working days. Dear COBS volunteers, could You write
>> about Your availability, so we could choose best time&date? Also, I
>> would like to make contact list of people working on COBS
>> (independently from meeting).
>>
>> 2. Qgil - as one of device seeding category is to be organized by
>> Council (community Awards), I got some questions:
>>
>> a) How much devices we can have available for Community Awards? As
>> it's one of four categories, and You've written about 40 N950's and 60
>> N9's, I though about 10 N950's and 15 N9's.
>>
>> Honestly, amount is quite low - especially, considering that it's
>> first time we're going to have Community Awards (would refer to it as
>> CA), while things like Coding Competition happen every year. If it's
>> possible to submit more devices to Community Awards (either additional
>> devices, or moving them from QT5/Nokia Store), it would help for sure,
>> as there are many people deserving it. Something like 15 N950's and 20
>> N9's would be sufficient, IMO.
>>
>> Of course, if it's not possible, we're still thankful for having
>> devices at all :)
>>
>> b) Few weeks ago, I've asked about situation, when Councilor (or
>> candidate for Council) is going to submit for device from CA program,
>> while Council is body that choose winners. It was meet with positive
>> reply from mailing list - generally, there was no problem with it -
>> some, as timoph, suggested that Council members should receive device,
>> because they've contributed much already (or they wouldn't be
>> choosen). Other suggested, that it's absolutely ok to submit for
>> device, but such councilor should not take part in deciding who will
>> get device.
>>
>> While Council appreciate what timoph said, way with Councilors
>> applying for devices being out of deciding winners sounds most
>> reasonable for Council. Ho ever, it seems thatn 4/5 of current Council
>> will apply for device (Woody isn't going to submit)
>>
>> Current Council proposition to workaround this "problem", is that
>> Woody *and* Council chair will decide about CA winners (while Council
>> chair also apply for device - we will choose chair tomorrow). Is it ok
>> with You, qgil? After all, you're providing devices ;)
>>
>> /Estel
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