MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 7 Jan 2013
Front Page Hildon Foundation open letter and Jolla's response Last week, the Hildon Foundation sent an open letter to Jolla requesting cooperation and financial assistance with maemo.org: “We would welcome discussion about a relationship between our organizations… If anything, we would like to form a friendship. If Jolla would be willing to become a sponsor and aid us in promoting the open source software aspects of Jolla and Sailfish — or, possibly even foot the bill — we would offer valuable community support to Jolla. In fact, we see a huge possibility of the Hildon Foundation becoming a part of the Jolla ecosystem or Sailfish Alliance itself.” Jolla replied in comments, “We can talk on a regular basis and we can form a friendship
Happy New Year from the Hildon Foundation — and future years to come for the Maemo Community!
Happy New Year Maemo Community! As we move into the new year, we’re also faced with a very new phase of life — that is, complete control of the maemo.org infrastructure, meaning community governance of the Maemo Community and everything that it implies (community servers and software repositories, various maemo-related software and technology, the talk.maemo.org forum and wiki, etc.). It’s a lot to fathom, but we are certain that if any community can handle it, this one can. Fundraising Likewise, most of you know that the new changes require that we, as a community, foot the bill for all of these new responsibilities
The New Hildon Foundation Website
We’d like to take a minute to unveil the new Hildon Foundation website: http://hildonfoundation.org As you’ll see, there is a fairly easy way to donate to the Hildon Foundation and the Maemo Community: http://hildonfoundation.org/support/ This is the same method that’s being used here on tmo : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1303767
Open Letter from the Hildon Foundation Board to the Maemo Community
Dear Maemo Community, As long-time supporters and contributors — and, in all humility, quite honored to be counted among all of you — we, the inaugural Hildon Foundation Board felt it necessary that we put forth an open, public statement about how we feel the “Board” should be considered and engaged with. At this point, the first Board meeting minutes have been published for public review. As we hope you’ll see, it is nothing but the Maemo Community’s best interests that we are concerned with.
Board Election Results and Council Election Cycle Update
The results of the Hildon Foundation Board elections, Q4 2012 are now official. Congratulations to all involved, and many thanks to the community for their support and their vote. Please keep in mind that the Council election cycle is still going! Nominations continue through the 28th, and voting will occur the first week of November! There are currently four standing candidates for Council
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 1 Oct 2012
Front Page Management not-for-profit board and Community Council nomination period closes The nomination period for the two concurrent elections have closed. The new “not-for-profit” organisation which will take over community ownership duties from Nokia has had six candidates declare their intention to stand: * Randall Arnold * Niel Nielsen * Ivan Galvez Junquera * Joerg Reisenweber * Tim Samoff * Craig Woodward
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 16 Jul 2012
Front Page Draft bylaws for non-profit entity to take over Maemo infrastructure In a proposal on the Maemo Community mailing list, RM Bauer details a draft bylaw to change the maemo.org infrastructure that is currently provided by Nokia to a non-profit entity possibly to be named the Hildon Foundation. “In order to continue the community at www.maemo.org in the future, it will be necessary to migrate much of the infrastructure and associated elements to a new site and to establish a separate entity for that purpose. See generally http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84933
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.38
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-09-12 through 2011-09-18 As of 2011-09-19 Extras contains: total items 2723 ( 20) total open items 998 ( 
open bugs 571 ( 5) critical/blocker 43 ( 1) “easyfix” 6 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 ( 1) unconfirmed 342 ( 1) open enhancements 427 ( 3) “easyfix” 3 ( 2) “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 ( 1) unconfirmed 184 ( 2) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (2%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (+1 this week) (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (new this week) Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes : (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (+1 this week) (3%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (-1 this week) (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
C FM Radio
/ 0 votes – 8 downloads Updated 2011-09-06 23:45 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license FM radio player A FM radio player written in plain C using Hildon with a minimalist interface. Author Javier S.
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.36
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-08-29 through 2011-09-04 As of 2011-09-05 Extras contains: total items 2673 ( 19) total open items 981 ( 10) open bugs 570 ( critical/blocker 43 ( 2) “easyfix” 5 ( 2) “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 8 ( 2) unconfirmed 343 ( 1) open enhancements 411 ( 2) “easyfix” 2 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 178 ( 2) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (2%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote