Local MeeGo group collaboration

Jarkko Moilanen has started a discussion on meego-community about the number of MeeGo networks which have sprung up in Finland, and what could be done to coordinate at a national level: Has anyone thought about having national meetings/small conferences ones or twice a year? Meeting would IMO enhance the inter-network co-operation. I know the local communities and networks are still in the building/establishment process and the issue is more future related, but still. A fair bit of interest and discussion was generated, which is worth reading if you're interested in meeting "ameegos" in the flesh.

Minutes for maemo.org coordination meeting

Your outgoing community council chair and election candidate, Andrew Flegg, has posted the minutes of the maemo.org coordination meeting that occurred last week to the community mailing list. The meeting was primarily focused on what to do with the reduced contract hours Nokia is providing for maemo.org, refocusing work on the ideas from the 2010 Brainstorm, and handling the Nokia handover of maemo.org to the community. See Andrew's post for the relevant points.

Robin Burchell election ballot confusion: mini-constitutional crisis ensues

As most of you likely realize, the Maemo Community Council election is in progress (remember to vote!). In an unfortunate, though not nefarious, oversight, council candidate Robin Burchell neglected to disclose his professional affiliation with Nokia as required by the election rules. Robin explains, As many of you may know, I stood for council in the current elections. It was a spur of the moment decision, partly based on the (at the time) lack of candidates in what I consider an important time, but also due to my feelings on what I consider to be many key issues. However.. taking decisions on the spur of the moment often has consequences, and it certainly did in this case. [...] You see, as some of you will probably know, I am employed by Collabora Ltd. Amongst Collabora's clients is Nokia. Although the option is open for the Community Manager (currently Quim Gil) or the council to invalidate a candidacy if affiliation is not disclosed, the limited bearing Robin's affiliation with Collabora has on his candidacy and the good-faith nature of the oversight led the council to decide to keep him on the ballot.

The crisis will be taken as an opportunity to give the election process documentation a fresh going-over to clarify points like these.