Community Office

Revision as of 16:10, 16 February 2010

The role of MeeGo working groups are explained at http://meego.com/about/governance

This is a request to the Technical Steering Group to approve the creation of a Community working group. There is no procedure defined but we can can improvise with some common sense:

Mission

The Community working group defines the strategy for collaboration tools and processes within the MeeGo project, and observes its implementation.

Areas

The main areas within the scope of the working group are (in no particular order):

• Maemo/Moblin transition: bringing the best from maemo.org and moblin.org to meego.com (urgent now, until the mission here is fulfilled).
• Web administration: server maintenance, team of admins and other users with special permissions.
• Platform infrastructure: selection and administration of online tools for collaborative software development: build infrastructure, code repositories, bugzilla, localization...
• Community infrastructure: selection and administration of online tools for non-technical community collaboration: planet, wiki, forum, brainstorm, downloads...
• Community marketing: merchandising, events, evangelism...

Contributors

MeeGo members interested in taking an active role in this working group. Please detail your interests and what you can contribute to the group:

• Quim Gil - regular Nokia contact with the Maemo community, and maemo.org contributor myself. One of the people responsible of the maemo.org transition from Nokia's hands to a fully community-driven site. Submitter of this proposal and happy to take an active role. Full disclosure: Nokia pays me to take care of open source / community matters in maemo.org and now meego.com. I can put time here.

• Jeremiah C. Foster - maemo.org's current debmaster. Recently I've taken on a role in the GenIVI consortium as Core Integration team lead. I would like to participate actively in helping develop MeeGO, keeping it open with a thriving community.

• Niels Breet - maemo.org webmaster and long time maemo.org community member. Liberated by Nokia to work on community infra and community repository infrastructure for maemo.org. Interested in doing the same for meego.com.

• David Greaves/lbt - Mer build guy and maemo.org member. Introduced OBS to Maemo and working on Nokia build infrastructure.

• Andrew Flegg/Jaffa - Long term Maemo community member and developer and twice Maemo Community Council member. Interested in bringing the best of the Maemo and Moblin communities together in the nascent MeeGo community and ensuring that cross-community facilitation happens.

• Sanjeet Kumar Willing to contribute as server admin.

• Elliot Smith/townxelliot - meego.com websites techie, worked on moblin.org Moblin SDK materials, contributor to Moblin SDK tools. Intel pays me.

• Henri Bergius - contributor to the maemo.org community infrastructure, behind services like Brainstorm, Karma and Social News. Working on maemo.org projects through Nemein, and interested in doing the same for meego.com

• Gabor Ambrozy/amby - recently joined maemo.org community member; would like to contribute to transition, community infrastructure and community marketing. Can bring virtual project mgmt and organization transition experience; IT system integration, sw development and learning projects practices. And a lot of end-user enthusiasm ;)

• Lucas Maneos/lm - member of the maemo.org bugsquad, happy to contribute in any way to the bugzilla transition.

• Tero Kojo - One of the Nokia people involved in the Maemo community and maemo.org. My area has been working with the liberated community members and the infrastructure for maemo.org. Interested in making sure that MeeGo.com provides the necessary tools and services to both developers and active users. I work in Nokia Maemo developer platform team as project manager responsible for communities.