Community Office

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.

Contents 1 Announcement 2 How to contribute 3 Mission 4 Areas 5 Contributors

Announcement

There is an upcoming meeting on http://meego.com/community/irc-channel as well. The scheduled time is Wednesday, March 24th 2010 at 20:00 UTC. Please note that the channel chosen for this meeting is #meego-meeting. An agenda for the meeting is here. This working group proposal will be considered by the Technical Steering Group during the meeting.

Current and older meetings can be found here.

How to contribute

To discuss and plan the MeeGo community, subscribe to the MeeGo community mailing list: http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community. You can also subscribe from your account page on meego.com.

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...
  • Forum
• Community infrastructure: selection and administration of online tools for non-technical community collaboration: planet, wiki, forum, brainstorm, downloads, metrics and reporting ...
• Community marketing: identity, 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 Alliance 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. Can get time to rework content from moblin.org for this site.

• 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.

• Margie Foster - I am the localization project manager for Moblin and also work on the MeeGo website. I am an Intel employee. I am really looking forward to helping create and maintain a vibrant MeeGo localization community using Transifex.

• Kathy Smith - maemo.org community member, non-technical end user. Special interest in community building, project management and channeling the input of end users.

• Robin Burchell - maemo fan as of n900, wide variety of technical skills from C++ (yes, including Qt)/PHP to server administration. happy to help the community, however I can.

• Qole - Two-term Maemo Community Council member, enthusiastic hacker and Linux user, primary maintainer of the Easy Debian project, and very active in the Maemo forums. Interested in helping out where I can to make MeeGo have the kind of powerhouse community that has made Maemo so special.

• VDVsx - Maemo Community Council member and developer, willing to keep helping everybody inside this new community from developers to end users.

• Randall Arnold/Texrat - Maemo Community Council member, former Nokia QA engineer for Maemo devices, originator of maemo.org community outreach efforts, maemo.org forum moderator and best practices blogger. Ready to translate lessons learned from maemo.org to whatever develops here!

• Ryan Abel - Long-term Maemo Community member and former two-term Maemo Community Council member. Interested in leveraging the strengths of the large maemo.org community into the growing MeeGo community. Also interested in helping to develop strong web infrastructure and tooling.

• Mike Shaver/mshaver - Moblin.org webmaster and developer behind the current meego.com site. I am an Intel employee. Would love to see this list of people contributing and directing what we build and support for the meego.com community.

• Sulamita Garcia - MeeGo Technical Marketing Engineer. I work at Open Source Technology Center at Intel and I've involved with Moblin from the beginning. I produce documentation, training and support for costumers and developers.

• Stephen Gadsby/sjgadsby - Maemo community member, poster of weekly Bugzilla activity reports, and forum moderator. Interest in community building and communication channels between users and developers.

• Reggie Suplido - maemo.org Talkmaster, primary administrator of talk.maemo.org. Founded Internet Tablet Talk where it's forum later on became talk.maemo.org. Can help run the forums section of MeeGo, or perform integration with talk.maemo.org if the need arises.

• timeless - regular Nokia Browser contact with the Maemo community, contributor to Maemo, Mer, Mozilla.

• danielwilms - working in Nokia on the maemo.org community developer support. Taking over community tasks, working on documentation and support. Interested in helping out, by working on MeeGo.com services, support developers and users, and documentation.

• Andreas Osowski/th0br0 - Interested in helping with infrastructure and community marketing. Currently working in Fedora as Ambassador and packager. ~4 years of C++ experience (with some Qt), RoR and Java experience

• Nicola De Filippo - maemo Qt4 contributor; technical skills: Qt (from 1997), C++, Javascript, Php, Java, Python

• Tim Samoff / timsamoff - Designer (graphic, UI, interaction, web), long-time Maemo Community member (two-term Maemo Community Council Member), and forever open source advocate

• Gadgety - maemo.org community member, business end user; I'd like to contribute to making the MeeGo community an easy place to join for newbies, fans, enthusiasts and creating a community where everyone feels welcome to contribute regardless of technical skill level

• Mikael Söderberg/mksoderberg - I am Chair of the GENIVI Alliance Reference System Work Group. I would like to contribute by assisting in development of the MeeGo Platform Infrastructure.

• Dave Neary/dneary - maemo.org community developer support with a specific documentation slant. Experienced community development consultant. I want to make sure that MeeGo makes the right strategic decisions related to transparency and participation guidelines at the project inception to avoid major issues later.

• Dawn Foster/dawnfoster - Intel's MeeGo community manager. I'm interested in helping out on a variety of community activities. I have past experience managing open source, developer and other types of online communities.

• Marcin Sołtysiak/solt - Open to help with community. Aligned with l10n efforts I would see a place for language/country sub sections. Also, have experience with Midgard. I could help with geek-to-human relations :)

• Ville Ilvonen/vilvo - Nokia's Maemo Test Tools - responsible for advocating and coordinating development of test tools and test automation inside Maemo. Looking forward to continue with MeeGo. I can help with tools contribution and evangelism within this working group. Nokia pays me to spend time with this.

• Danny Bennett - maemo.org community member, Nokia application architect for maemo sw. I'm interested in architecture and the technology components that make up the MeeGo distro. This is where and how I can contribute.

• Auke Kok - Intel MeeGo developer, working on releases, fastboot, l10n project.