Randall Arnold (Texrat) running for council
Randall Arnold has announced he is running for a spot in the Maemo Community Council: As a council member I championed the welcoming of new members and rolled out a volunteer program called Maemo Greeters with a very simple goal: ask members to include helpful links in their talk.maemo.org signatures, thus easily propogating helpful info throughout the forum. The program was more successful than I had even imagined, growing through user suggestions to include multiple languages and a variety of resources and approaches. I see value in continuing this at MeeGo. He is the only member of the current council who has signalled his intention to stand, at the time of writing. Randall graciously answered a series of questions posed by your editor in his announcement thread.
Andrea Grandi (andy80) running for council
Andrea Grandi has announced he is running for a spot in the Maemo Community Council: I joined the Maemo Community since the first Maemo device was out (Nokia 770) and I've been always so excited for being able to contribute to this project. In the past I've attended at both Maemo Summit doing a short talk. During last summer I collaborated with PyMaemo team during a stage at Igalia and at the moment I'm developing a couple of applications using Python and Qt. Andrea kindly answered a series of questions posed by Andrew Flegg in his announcement thread.
Andrew Black (andrewfblack) running for council
Andrew Black has announced he is running for a spot in the Maemo Community Council: I have been in the Maemo Community for about two(2) years now and I have jumped right in wanting to find a way to give back. I found this way in theme making. In the past year I have created and released over a dozen themes. I have released themes for every Maemo device including the 770 which I did not get until after I already had my N810. I have tried to help get more people interested in theming for Maemo by publishing how-to guides and helping answer any questions I get from new theme makers. Despite his announcement over a week ago, he has yet to answer the questions posed by Andrew Flegg in his announcement thread.
Steven Yeager (YoDude) running for council
Steven Yeager has announced he is running for a spot in the Maemo Community Council: I believe that the Community Council we elect should have some representation from the average customer/user base. I also believe that the forums are, and will continue to be the communication means of choice for many engaged users. I also believe that some of the future leaders of our community will come from within the ranks of these engaged users. At the time of writing, his nomination is only four hours old, so he has not yet answered the questions from Andrew Flegg.
Arek Stopczynski (hopbeat) running for council
Arek Stopczynski has announced he is running for a spot in the Maemo Community Council, after being nominated by Kathy Smith: Why I would like to become part of the council? I can provide user&developer insight plus I don't often get emotional: I believe in listening to others (and telling them they have no idea what they are talking about, if this is the case; but not before they are heard) Arek has kindly answered the series of questions your editor is asking of all the candidates. His answers can be found later in the thread.
Javier Pedro (javispedro) running for council
Javier S. Pedro has accepted Arek Stopczynski's nomination and is running for a spot in the Maemo Community Council: The biggest issue to solve when you have a set of volunteers is how to make the most of the limited amount of time they are willing to contribute to a project. However, instead of attacking this problem, one can decide to try to increase this amount of time -- developers (and I guess most people :) ) tend to "always find more time" for tasks they like. Javier has kindly answered the series of question asked of the other candidates by Andrew Flegg as part of his acceptance.