Community Council elections update
The Maemo Community Council election date is growing nearer. Unfortunately due to some communications issues and the unavailability of certain individuals, the elegible candidates list hasn't been generated, but: We're still working on getting a published list of eligible candidates together for the next Maemo Community Council election nominations. In the meantime, if you have 100 Karma points or above, you are eligible. This being said, please seriously consider declaring yourself as a nominee for the upcoming election. Nominations close on Thursday March 10th at 23:59 UTC, so be sure to get your nomination in before then if you're planning on running. The election starts Monday March 14th, so watch for your voting tokens!
Call for Papers for MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco open
With the opening of the MeeGo Conference 2011 registration, the call for papers has also gone out: We are inviting proposals for presentations in a wide variety of areas: device/Product development, app development, platform development and MeeGo project, process, and progress. We also welcome submissions on any other MeeGo related topics. Be creative, the program committee will look at each and every submission, to create a vibrant and interesting conference. This includes community and open source related proposals, as well as commercial or proprietary developments around MeeGo. Proposals are due by March 18, 11:59 PM PST.
Birmingham (UK) MeeGo meetup
MeeGoExperts' Ash has shared an open invite to a Midlands' meetup: Time to get together for another Birmingham UK MeeGo meetup. The interest in the Operating System has increased and also we now have some available devices, So it should be a good time to be had by all. Drag along anything that you might also have been working on with regards to MeeGo / Maemo / QML / Qt etc as we would love to see what else everyone else has been upto. The meetup is scheduled for March 17th at Bennets Pub, 8 Bennets Hill, Birmingham, B2 5RS.