Hello my friend, Community Council sounds like a good idea but what you really need is a Board and Chairman of the Bord, President, Directors and having Maemo.org incorporated as profit or non-for-profit corporation.
Council is not the best solution, as council still has no rights but obligations. Please visit Global Alliance on Open Source Software http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en to see how it works. One thing should be discussed and disclosed yet, what is a role of Nokia in maemo.org to avoid legal issues and problems in the future. Linux developers should be fully aware in advance if they work and devote their time for Nokia Corporation, for maemo.org not-incorporated, maemo.org - organization , incorporation pending or just work for fun, for free, for the community. Working for Nokia Corporation on corporate products is really great think. But please aware, any software code is still copyrighted to its author not Nokia and today and forever. So you at Nokia need to establish legal relations between copyright holders and the Nokia Corporation. Another way is to discuss such contractual relations between Linux developers and corporations having global status and set terms, have lawyers from Free Software Foundation and other organizations to represent developers in relations with corporations to facilitate intellectual property rights transfer under US, EU IT rights protections acts, rules, regulations. But please don't advice Nokia to incorporate third party copyrighted Linux code into one of its product without such writtenm contract or agreement on transfer of intellectual property rights. One day, one developer, one lawyer in one case, may stop Nokia Corporation in developing one commercial product by court order, claiming intellectual property rights violations. So it is much better to have contract Linux workers than be dependent on a work of free developers, working for free, for the community, without any formal agreement or contract between any such developer and any such corporation. Corporate Linux Software Solutions are getting more and more common today. And you at Nokia and from Nokia, please follow an example by Apple, having developed iPhone, iPod Touch and new 3G GPS iPhone please look at repositories of community made software, look at SDK policy. If Nokia is still going to make business with Nokia Internet Tablet and generate profit not loss, must follow a good example and already known development path. Global Corporation like Nokia can't risk investing into community projects, products, developed for free by developers volunterring their work for the community. Nokia should incorporate Maemo.org as a business entity, corporation and nominate directors, board, officers and have job done under supervision and management provided by Nokia. Global Alliance on Open Source Software is a good place to discuss that issue and more problems related to Corporate Linux Embedded Hardware Products hardware locked or not. http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en Darius Multimedia Magazines (R&D Project No.GIM02577) http://tinyurl.com/3edako --- On Fri, 13/6/08, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: maemo.org community leadership - the maemo.org Community Council To: "[email protected] List" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 13 June, 2008, 1:51 PM Hello, Maemo Community. :) As most of you probably already know, the 100 Days brainstorm over at http://wiki.maemo.org/100Days has recently concluded, and now is the time to start working on pushing the Tasks: that came out of it. To that end, I'd like to request everybody's input on task that will likely help most in moving forward with a community-driven maemo.org, the maemo.org Community Council (http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council). Over the 30 days or so, we need to pound out a framework for the council—define its scope, responsibilities, organization, and purpose, and figure out the nomination and election procedure. This is the first draft, and all ideas are still fluid and open to modification. Please feel encouraged to discussion and modify any of these points on the wiki. Purpose The maemo community currently lacks focus for its issues and ideas. There are a lot of great minds with lots of good ideas but they lack organization and focus. The council will serve to help distill and focus these ideas (from the maemo.org mailing lists, IRC, itT, Bugzilla, etc), bring them to Nokia's attention, and seek to understand Nokia's position on these issues and help to explain it to the rest of the community. The council will also serve to facilitate a dialog between Nokia and the community on these issues, holding monthly IRC meetings with Quim to discuss progress on existing issues and raise new issues. Structure The council will be composed of 5 community members to be elected by the community with 1 member as the council chairman. The chairman will be selected by the council after the completion of elections and requires a majority vote of 3 out of 5 council members. If no majority can be reached, the chairman will be the member with the most community votes. Potential candidates must have 100 karma points on maemo.org. Elections * The 5 council members will be elected by the community.* Elections are held every 6 months.* Nominations accepted 2 weeks before the election begins.* Elections last for 1 week.* Only community members with karma above 50 may vote.* Each community member gets one vote.* The 5 nominees with the most votes are elected. Operations * The council will hold monthly IRC meetings with the contacts from the Maemo Software team at Nokia to discuss new issues and progress on existing issues.* Distill community issues to bring to Nokia's attention.* Help manage community involvement (e.g. Maemowiki Action Group, 100Days and 2010 Agenda) Andrew Flegg (Jaffa), Simon Pickering (lardman) and myself (GeneralAntilles) have been the ones pushing this idea so far, but a community council shouldn't be pushed by only 3 people, so we need everybody's help in figuring out how things should work. In the interest of keeping council discussion in a single easy-to-get-to place, anybody interested in helping out should head on over to the Community Council Talk Page (http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Task:Community_Council) and get discussing! It's preferable that discussion not be held on this mailing list, as the wiki will be easier for people to find, and to keep up-to-date and on-topic :) Let's make maemo.org the best community website it can be!_______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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