[maemo-developers] Community council

[From: Darius Jack]

Hi,

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Murray said below:
"
I like it. It's not clear what it will become, but it could be a good
way for Maemo to start becoming less owned by Nokia alone, thus giving
it more life....
"

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Quim Gil
marketing manager, open source
Maemo Software @ Nokia

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I really don't like the idea of anything being less or more owned.

Maemo is project by Nokia, Maemo.org website is owned by Nokia, development is supported, financed by Nokia, some developers are donated by Nokia,
so what is your idea of having third party owners to Maemo
or transferring some rights to Maemo to third parties ?

To me Maemo= Nokia.
Community council can't change anything in Maemo ownership rights
as council has no legal title to transfer any rights in Maemo.
So suggesting otherwise makes no sense.

Closing.
Maemo=Nokia and community council is ok for Nokia and for the community
as maemo can not be incorporated by initial directors as already owned by Nokia.

If you are aware of any maemo software based embedded device, made by other corporation than Nokia, please let me know.

Darius

--- On Mon, 23/6/08, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:
From: Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com>
Subject: Re: Community council
To: "Dave Neary" <bolsh at gnome.org>
Cc: "maemo-developers at maemo.org" <maemo-developers at maemo.org>
Date: Monday, 23 June, 2008, 1:31 PM

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 22:13 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So - the community council, then...
> 
> what do people think of the idea?

I like it. It's not clear what it will become, but it could be a good
way for Maemo to start becoming less owned by Nokia alone, thus giving
it more life. I think Nokia want to have way to do this.

I recommend being quite informal to start with, only adding rules and
bureaucracy where it's genuinely useful.

>  What should the remit be?

At the very least it can be a group of people who's job it is to clearly
and briefly express the community's needs and concerns. Where consensus
exists, it should express it. The mailing list is too busy for most
people to see that otherwise.  

Like the GNOME Board, it may later wish to delegate some tasks to
specialized groups, such as administrators for mailing lists, web
servers, source code repositories, etc.
 
> I agree with the poster who said that monthly or quarterly election
> would be too frequent. All depends on how onerous the voting process
> will be, I suppose.
> 
> Proposals to go here: https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council
> And discussions can go to the list, or here:
> https://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Task:Community_Council

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