<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Greetings Maemo community,</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Like my good friend Tim Samoff, I am submitting myself as a candidate for the</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Hildon Foundation board.</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px;
line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Those who know me are familiar with my qualifications. For those who don't,</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">here's a synopsis:</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- Former Nokia quality engineer for early Maemo devices</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- Prominent member of N800 launch team</span><br
style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- Early member of Internet Tablet Talk and maemo.org; helped develop community</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- maemo.org forum moderator</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- creator of Maemo (and MeeGo) Greeters program</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- MeeGo community office member; created and coordinated device program</span><br
style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- 3-term maemo.org council member</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">- 2 term (and current) Nokia Developer Champion</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Regardless of where my career and interests have taken me, I am a strong</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;
">advocate of open source, both software and hardware. In addition to Maemo and</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">MeeGo involvement, I am also heavily plugged into 3D printing communities and</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">pushing for increased opportunities for community contributions to device</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">ecosystems (phone cases, sim card adapters, etc).</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family:
monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">I've been very concerned with the negative tone I see permeating our community</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">and i would like to see us work at dispelling that. We started as a can-do</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">collective of passionate, talented people and I would like to see that spirit</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">renewed. I have
hope that the Hildon Foundation will be sufficiently empowered</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">to turn this thing around!</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">maemo.org profile: </span><a href="http://maemo.org/profile/view/texrat/" target="_blank" style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">http://maemo.org/profile/view/texrat/</a><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "> (outdated but I am</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height:
18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">having trouble logging in to make changes)</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Randall (Randy) Arnold aka texrat</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">Developer and Enthusiast Advocate</span><br style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://texrat.net/" target="_blank" style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">http://texrat.net</a> <br></div></div></body></html>