Technical Contributor Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation

Today Last week I finally joined the Wikimedia Foundation , with my US visa renewed and all the bureaucratic requirements in place. I work at the Platform Engineering team, reporting to Sumana Harihareswara and having other (remote) neighbors like Guillaume Paumier ,  Chris McMachon and Andre Klapper (of GNOME & Maemo/MeeGo fame, what a coincidence!). I feel happy.

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Community Council Meeting (July 13, 2012)

Sorry for the delay on these. I thought I'd posted them but apparently never hit the send button.

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Community Council Meeting (June 1, 2012)

In an effort to provide increased transparency of the operation of Council, meeting minutes are being provided via the Community Council blog. Future meetings will also have full web transcripts via the maemo-meeting channel auto-logger. In an effort to provide increased transparency of the operation of Council, meeting minutes are being provided via the Community Council blog.  Future meetings will also have full web transcripts via the #maemo-meeting auto-logger

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.39

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-09-19 through 2011-09-25 As of 2011-09-26 Extras contains: total items 2732 ( 9) total open items 1005 ( 7) open bugs 575 ( 4) critical/blocker 43 “easyfix” 6 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 344 ( 2) open enhancements 430 ( 3) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 184 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 (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%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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Snuggle – Cell Tower Geolocation

/ 0 votes – 6 downloads Updated 2011-09-07 23:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license The Snuggle application uses the cell tower information to locate the geolocation coordinates. It captures the CellID parameters (available from the connected GSM network) and by using Google APIs translates those to locate your position in a map. Additional information on the usage, settings and implications can be found in the wiki page Author Christos Saturn Links Homepage

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Decent examples, at last!

Jon spent a lot of time in the last weeks improving our documentation for Maliit . However, while documentation is good (and necessary), Jon thinks that examples are better

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MeeGo conference San Francisco

I went to San Francisco (US&A) to play Ping-Pong with Chris (I also recommend him as a tour guide – he knows the city). At the same time a conference took place. At the weekend’s preconference I discussed MeeGo L10N with Margie.

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Where We’re At In April 2011

The new maemo.org community council has been installed… sudo apt-get install council-2011.1 …and we’ve spent some time discussing what we want to prioritize and accomplish this term

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Pandora + Debian = Happy Penguins :p

Well its been a while since my last post, I had to RMA my pandora, it took a couple weeks, It had one faulty SD slot, but this is all another story.

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 21 Feb 2011

Front Page State of Maemo, Q1 2011 from the Community Council The Maemo community's fifth council will soon be stepping down and the sixth (for March – September 2011) will be elected. Tim Samoff , chair of the outgoing Maemo Community Council, has started wrapping up the current term whilst summarising the opportunities and challenges facing the Maemo community: “In conclusion, the Council would like to thank you, the Maemo Community, developers, end-users, and Nokia employees alike, for helping to make this a fun ride

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