Maemo Council has two proposals that it is publishing for consideration and comment by the community. The first proposal involves the promotion of projects that are believed to be important to the community and will meet minimum criteria of openness and self-governance. The second proposal is for Council to step back from involvement in technical issues in lieu of project governance. Council member Jeremiah notes that he objects to the proposals to the extent that they seek to change the governance of the community. <br>
<br><br><span><b>Council Proposals</b><br>
For the last few months, the community has been
sorting out the future of <a href="http://maemo.org/" target="_blank">maemo.org</a>.
After initial discussion by the new Council, two changes are proposed at this time. First, we propose steps
to better organize and manage Maemo-related
development while at the same keeping intact the
Maemo community's history of openness and
inclusiveness. Second, Council will refocus its
activities and attempt to establish mutually
beneficial relations with other open source
communities such as Meego, Qt, and Debian. These proposals are
intended to improve the overall functioning of the
community so that it can continue into the future.</span><br><span><br>
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<div><b><span>1) Software Development</span></b></div><span>Council proposes to promote
one or more significant and strategic SW development
projects within the community so as to accelerate
and encourage participation by more developers in
those projects. </span><span>Council
will ensure that these projects receive the necessary
infrastructure to achieve their goals and may provide them with direct access to some parts of the
infrastructure administration.</span><span> The
projects will maintain their own governance on a meritocratic basis
by those community members involved in the projects
rather than community wide. The governance may, but
need not, take the commonly known form of a Technical Steering Group
(TSG). All technical decisions
will be made by the project governance. Council
will not
interfere with the selection of TSG members or
technical decisions made by the projects. </span><span>However,
the promoted projects will be required to be operated and managed
openly, and to include any maemo member in good standing in the project.<br>
</span><span><b>2) Council Responsibilities</b><br>
Council will step back from software development and
refocus slightly to concentrate on collecting
feedback widely from all community members, and to
facilitating opportunities for members to contribute
to the community by, for example, establishing
volunteer positions such as for the former
webmaster, etc. It is hoped that meritocratic project governance will free Council from
having to address and resolve certain development
related issues, leading to a quicker and technically
better resolution of those issues. Council will
continue to be generally responsible for managing </span>the
website, domain name, software licensing, IPR, and
infrastructure and to <span>serve as the point of
contact with Nokia, and now for other companies and
other open source projects</span> as well.