Well, I've decided to toss my hat into the ring for the Hildon Foundation Board election.

Most of you who've been around the Maemo Community for a while probably know me. If not personally, I'd guess through reputation, but for those of you who don't:

Hello, my name is Ryan Abel. I go by GeneralAntilles online.

I've owned a Maemo device since the beginning of 2006 (around the time the 770 became available in the US), and began participating on Internet Tablet Talk at that time.

2013/05/17 Council Meeting Minutes

Attending: [HFC + MCC] - Rüdiger Schiller (chemist), Joerg Reisenweber
(joerg_rw), Christian Ratzenhofer (merlin1991), Michael Demetriou (qwazix),
Aakash Sadh (thedead1440)

Log: <a href="http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-meeting-irclog/%23maemo-meeting.2013-05-17.log.html" title="http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-meeting-irclog/%23maemo-meeting.2013-05-17.log.html">http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-meeting-irclog/%23maemo-meeting.2013-05-17.log.html</a>

Topics:
HFC - HiFo BoD Electorate Proposal[0] has been voted on 4 yes, 0 no,
1 did not vote
"Who is OK with the current proposal and agrees to start
elections 14 days after it being published to the community?"
BoD elections will start 14 days from it being published

Dear Maemo community,

I would first like to thank everybody that voted in the recent barrage
of elections.

I am honoured to be nominated for the Maemo Community Council and Hildon
Foundation Council and I accept the nomination.

The reason that I do accept despite that I have recently said otherwise is
because I feel that a vote with many candidates is needed to provide
legitimacy to the elected council to take the actions required.

My goal for the next term is to minimize the needless bureaucracy that has
made our life difficult the last few months and part of this effort is the
combination of the two bodies MCC/HFC into one, as I firmly believe there
is no need for two different councils.

I'm nominating/suggesting
for (mcc/hfc, see <a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...47&amp;postcount=7" title="http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...47&amp;postcount=7">http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...47&amp;postcount=7</a>)

***council(s)***:
chemist
generalantilles
jaffa
kerio
me
mentalisttraceur
merlin1991
qwazix
sixwheeledbeast
texrat
thedead1440

I think kerio already has self-nominated, the others pending their
accepting/rejecting to run

Please notice timetable at <a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=89711" title="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=89711">http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=89711</a> and
particularly DEADLINE for nominations (resp the acceptance of those by
nominees) which is
2013-04-23 23:59UTC:
Nomination Period for Board/Council Ends

I hereby declare my candidature for the april/may 2013 elections for the
maemo community council.

<a href="http://maemo.org/profile/view/merlin1991/" title="http://maemo.org/profile/view/merlin1991/">http://maemo.org/profile/view/merlin1991/</a>

Christian "merlin1991" Ratzenhofer

I declare my candidature for the april/may 2013 elections for the council.

Edoardo "kerio" Spadolini

Since a few days ago we have been on our own and having a body that it's main
function is to communicate with Nokia no longer serves a purpose. Another body
with similar functionality is however provisioned by the ByLaws of the Hildon
Foundation.

Hi,

I recently got an old N770 tablet. It works correctly with OS2005 version of
Maemo. I installed OS2008-HE, which is also working quite correctly (I have an
issue with WiFi but I'll address it later).

My plans with this machine is to upgrade it to a Debian distro (I'm quite
comfortable with Debian). Before this can be achieved, I need to install a
recent kernel on the N770. The current Debian stable kernel is 2.6.32.

I installed a cross-compiling environment (scratchbox2) on my PC and compiled
the 2.6.32 kernel for the N770.

Hello.
Sorry if this is considered spam - I do not know where else
send it.
I have n900 but I do not use it anymore and it is just gathering dust.
I would like to sell it for 100EUR (+shipping), preferably
to some developer (preferably in EU).

I bought n900 in 2009; it was my main phone for 3 years.
It was restarting, so it had replaced motherboard in middle 2010.
I have never overclocked it, never installed power kernel nor CSSU.

Best regards.

Dear all,

Did you hear about viber.com ?
How can i install same thing under N900?

--mohsen

Lately, new generation of Davicom's el-cheapo USB->Ethernet dongles
flooded the market. They can be bought for as cheap as ~2$ per (new)
piece, and unlike precedors, works quite reliably (no more MTU
problems, it seems - at least they don't spazm out after ping -s
1400).

There is one problem, though - new chip means, that old dc9601 module
(included in kernel-power) doesn't work anymore. Thankfully, Davicom,
despite having irritating history, released sources for linux modules.
It results in qf9700 module, required by current generation of
dongles.

We (the cssu team) have more and more GTK+ based applications in the
repository, and by far not enough manpower to work on all of them.

With the latest steps towards replacing closed components the amount of
those applications increased again.

Things like the virtual keyboard could need some love in order to
finally enter cssu.

We are happy about every bit of help (gtk or not) and can be found on
irc (#maemo-ssu on chat.freenode.net).

Sources for everything inside cssu can be found here:
<a href="https://gitorious.org/community-ssu" title="https://gitorious.org/community-ssu">https://gitorious.org/community-ssu</a>

Christian

PS: I've posted this on tmo as well:
<a href="http://talk.m" title="http://talk.m">http://talk.m</a>

Hi,

You probably know that the SSL setup on vcs.maemo.org is broken. The
certificate and the private key file do not match.

The certificate will anyway expire on the 3rd of Jan, 2013. Hope that
the Hildon Foundation can request a new one, as soon as the domain
ownership is transferred.

Hi all,

We're trying to track down 2 missing device prizes from the coding
competition (we've tried a few Nokia contacts over the past while but have
had no luck with responses). Would anybody know anyone inside Nokia who
might be able to assist us with locating these two missing devices?

One was to be sent to maemo.org member netvandal and one to
maemo.orgmember Wikiwide. Neither have received a shipping
notification or tracking
number, and nothing has arrived for these guys. The prizes for the other
winners have been received fine long ago.

Mi 19. Dezember 2012
Reggie, the whole point of this enterprise is to keep the domain. That's the
only reason basically why HF been founded.

[sending again since I did a nasty oopsie with last one, attachment been
multipart ;-D Sorry!]

Just as a friendly reminder see attached mail from Andrew (Jaffa).
Just claiming there are "issues" is a tad thin.
Since you (board) are inheriting those new servers today or tomorrow anyway,
it is the absolutely most cost efficient place to host tmo right now (actual
cost: zero), given Nemein is willing to set up a plain VM for this purpose.
Running the VM will be basically for free.

Hello,

The subject says it all.

Once the services are read only we will start rsyncing data to the new
hosting. As soon as this move is completed we will verify the new setup
and if all goes fine will apply the necessary DNS changes.

I just want to ask if you are OK with the timing: today, 2012-12-18 1600
(UTC/GMT +1) ?

Cheers,
ferenc

Hello Maemo Community!

We have big problem with repositories. Two months ago GPG key for
downloads.maemo.nokia.com expired and Hildon Application Manager
refusing to install or reinstall packages from these
repositories. Part of downloads.maemo.nokia.com is OTA and OVI
Store repository.

TMO <http://talk.maemo.org> forum started being part of maemo.org more than
3 years ago with funding from Nokia.

Hello,

I needed to connect to WiFi WPA2 network which using EAP/TTLS+GTC
authentification. Maemo5 has for these settings chechboxes in
Control Panel, but it does not remember password for TTLS+GTC
authentification. It is really annoing that user must enter
password every time.

I found which Maemo application is responsible for EAP
authentification. It is daemon /usr/bin/eapd which is in Nokia
non-free proprietary package osso-wlan-security.

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting ([logs][1])

**Attending:** DocScrutinizer05, qwazix, MentalistTraceur.

Hello everybody, excuse me for repost from here:
<a href="http://maemo.org/community/maemo-users/double_screen/" title="http://maemo.org/community/maemo-users/double_screen/">http://maemo.org/community/maemo-users/double_screen/</a>
but maybe someone here not reading forum.

I'm having a problem with my N800, it starts appearing two screens
folding one on another, second screen is about 15 pixels lower than
the first.

Hello all,

First, greetings to everyone from your new Council members. As you all already might know, on the council for this term are:

* [Alexander Kozhevnikov / Mentalist Traceur][1]
* [ Iván Gálvez Junquera / ivgalvez][2]
* [Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw][3]
* [Michael Demetriou / qwazix][4]
* [Niel Nielsen / nieldk][5]

We look forward to serving you for the duration of our term. We will also keep posting the minutes of every meeting we hold, just as the last council did.

Why don't you do this on your own? Go to TMO and find ANY post by Estel. You can then look up the user profile by clicking his name, and see *all* posts (most recent first). Just review the past dozen or so posts, and you will see him being just as offensive and baselessly accusatory there as he has been in this thread.

By advice of helping soul from IRC and Estell (thanks, man!), i'm sending my rant here: what the hell is happening with maemo.org forum?! Today, one moment i'm posting, and two hours later i see this:

[code]
You have been banned for the following
reason:

Estel

Date the ban will be lifted: Never[/code]

Someone went ape shit nuts there?! estell pointed me out to this link: <a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1293253&amp;postcount=293" title="http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1293253&amp;postcount=293">http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1293253&amp;postcount=293</a> as reason for ban. i'm JCDentom quoted there, and all my posts got deleted too!!
What the hell is happening there?

Minutes for first Hildon Foundation Board meeting. VoIP meeting held on Google Hangout. Attending: - Randall Arnold / texrat - Tim Samoff / timsamoff - Ivan Galvez / ivgalvez - Robert Bauer/ SD69 - Craig Woodward (intermittent) / woody14619

**Hildon Foundation, Meeting 1 - November 3, 2012**
====================================

+ Note:
- Technical Issues persisted via Google Hangout: only Randy, Ivan and
Tim had voice capability. Others participated via chat.

+ Public Meeting Minutes?
- Tim: Yes
- Randy: Some private; some public
- Ivan: Are they required?