[maemo-community] Self-Nomination for the Maemo Board Members delegation...

[From: Piotr Jawidzyk]

It's great that You decided to throw Your name into hat - keeping my
thumbs for You :)

/Estel

2012/9/12, robert bauer <nybauer at gmail.com>:
> Great news Tim.  Glad to see you back here.
>
> Rob (SD69)
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Tim Samoff <tim at samoff.com> wrote:
>
>> Clearly, I'm excited (or something). I'll resubmit this after the
>> nomination period begins. ;)
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Tim Samoff wrote:
>> > Hello Maemo Community!
>> >
>> > While I've been silent on the mailing list and TMO for a while, I've
>> > continued to lurk and participate in other venues like Twitter and
>> > Facebook. In fact, I still submit Maemo news to mwkn.net often.
>> >
>> > But, that's all moot in my mind.
>> >
>> > Most of you who know me will hopefully agree that I am passionate,
>> > dedicated, hard working member who has put countless time and effort
>> > into the Maemo cause. I have served on three terms of the Maemo
>> > Community Council (one of those terms as the Chair); I have spearheaded
>> > several community efforts (the m.o website redesign, contests,
>> > application development, UI/UX improvement, conferences, etc.); I have
>> > presented talks; I've volunteered; etc.
>> >
>> > Most of your who know me will also know that none of this work was done
>> > from a developer's point of view. I came to the Maemo Community as a
>> > user (the N800 was my first Maemo device) and that's how I initially
>> > got
>> > involved. My first involvement was in the discussion forums (back then
>> > it was still itT) [0]. Then, I moved on to lodging bug reports [1].
>> > Then, since I am a designer, I began helping folks with graphics and UI
>> > design. The list could go on and on, but my main point is just that I
>> > am
>> > really still who I was back when my N800 first arrived in the mail: a
>> > passionate user. In fact, my main handset (by choice, not by necessity)
>> > is the Nokia N950.
>> >
>> > One must possess 100 Karma points or more to be nominated for this
>> > position. I have 1,586 [2].
>> >
>> > While I haven't been interested in taking part in Council business over
>> > the last couple of years, I am still very interested in seeing the
>> > advancement of (and even helping to steer) the community into the
>> > future. I don't see a lot of hope for Maemo as a specific "product" of
>> > any sort (which, in the end, may end up disqualifying me from running
>> > for this position), but I am still very hopeful for the community at
>> > large. Maemo is more than just a product anyway, it's a philosophy.
>> > And,
>> > more than any other open source community that I've been involved with,
>> > Maemo community members are the most transparent, dedicated, and
>> > involved in the life of that philosophy.
>> >
>> > I would be honored to come back aboard with a group of whose job is to
>> > negotiate this community's future.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Tim Samoff (timsamoff)
>> >
>> >
>> > [0] http://bit.ly/UHQYnK
>> > [1] http://bit.ly/PfAjDZ
>> > [2] http://bit.ly/OEcTJb
>> >
>>
>> --
>> http://samoff.com
>>
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