<div dir="ltr">Seconded.  Andrea would be an outstanding representative IMO.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span><strong>Randall (Randy) Arnold</strong><br />
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> ----- Original message ----- <br />
> From: "Andrea Grandi" <a.grandi@gmail.com><br />
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
> Subject: Council nomination: Andrea Grandi<br />
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:14:26 +0100<br />
> <br />
> <br />
>Hello,<br />
> <br />
> my name is Andrea Grandi, from Italy. Most of you probably already<br />
> know me, but I'll introduce myself for people who joined later.<br />
> <br />
> I'm a computer science student at Università degli Studi di Firenze<br />
> and I've worked in the past as software developer for some companies.<br />
> I also lead the Linux user group of my city (PtLUG), and for this<br />
> reason my programming interests are directed to opensource<br />
> development.<br />
> Working for PtLUG I've also gained a lot of experience about how to<br />
> relate to a community and how to organize events.<br />
> <br />
> Past and present in Maemo Community<br />
> <br />
> I joined the Maemo Community since the first Maemo device was out<br />
> (Nokia 770) and I've been always so excited for being able to<br />
> contribute to this project.<br />
> In the past I've attended at both Maemo Summit doing a short talk.<br />
> During last summer I collaborated with PyMaemo team during a stage at<br />
> Igalia and at the moment I'm developing a couple of applications using<br />
> Python and Qt.<br />
> <br />
> Areas where I could help in the council<br />
> <br />
> In the Maemo Council I could help mainly for two things. First of all<br />
> I could help for the organization of the events. Finding a strategic<br />
> place to organize an event and selecting interesting contents to<br />
> attract more people is not an easy task. I think that there are still<br />
> some areas where we can work better to give to the Community a better<br />
> Summit.<br />
> Being a developer too I think I could help improving tools that Maemo<br />
> developers use. For example a lot of work could be done to improve the<br />
> Maemo Garage (did you notice that main Maemo project have their code<br />
> in Gitorius, mailing list on Maemo Garage, website on another hosting<br />
> service ecc...... ?!).<br />
> <br />
> What I would like to do in the Council<br />
> <br />
> - Maemo(MeeGo) Summit organization: as I already said, there are some<br />
> areas that we could improve and I'm going to work in this direction.<br />
> - Promoting developers contests: a nice way to attract developers is<br />
> challenging them. We could organize a contest and I'm sure that a lot<br />
> of interesting applications could be created by community.<br />
> - Improving the "getting started" part of all areas: I've noticed that<br />
> for a new developers or users has never been easy to find where to<br />
> start from. I think that a lot could be done to improve this.<br />
> <br />
> Of course I've also other ideas for the Community, but first of all<br />
> let's see how this Maemo+Moblin fusion will evolve. We are no more<br />
> just "Maemo" now, we are a larger community so I think it's better to<br />
> start as soon as possible working together to create the best<br />
> community ever :)<br />
> <br />
> Regards,<br />
> <br />
> --<br />
> Andrea Grandi<br />
> email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT] com<br />
> website: http://www.andreagrandi.it<br />
> PGP Key: http://www.andreagrandi.it/pgp_key.asc<br />
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