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Community Council/council rules referendum

2013-03-22T20:26:29Z

98.230.32.237: /* HFC Rule List */

= Community Council Rules Amendment Referendum =

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. We need to set up election rules for this new body (Hildon Foundation Council) and transform Maemo Community Council to Hildon Foundation Council.

The Maemo Community Council election rules ( http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...ection_process ) are a good base to start with, but they have a drawback: While there is a provision to avoid unelected members for less than 5 members, this provision does not cover the actual number five resulting in all 5 candidates to be appointed councillors (what has currently happened). This should be corrected and the clause "If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council. " must be changed to "...fewer than or equal to five...". For the same reason, the clause "If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held. " must be changed to "...fewer than or equal to three...".

Thus, a referendum is called with the following question:

In order to repair special cases in MCC rules, and bring them into alignment with HFC rules, the following: ([[#MCC Rule List]]) Shall become ([[#HFC Rule List]]), and the Maemo Community Council will from now on be transformed into Hildon Foundation Council. Yes or No?

Follow the discussion here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1330915

== MCC Rule List ==
The 5 council members will be elected by the community.

# Nominations will be accepted 2 weeks before the election begins from any community member with a [[karma]] of 100 or above.
# Elections last for 1 week.
# Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months, and have karma of 10 or above, may vote.
# Each community member eligible to vote gets a single ballot.
# The 5 nominees voted for most, as counted by a single transferrable vote system are elected.
# Nominees with a professional interest in Maemo, such as working for Nokia - or any other company involved in Maemo-related software development - must declare their interest when advertising their nomination. Failure to do so may result in the Nokia Community Manager, or the outgoing Council, declaring their nomination invalid and so bar them from standing in the current election.
# There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-election.
# The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
# The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
# If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
# If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
## The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
## If, after 1 month's delay, there are still fewer than 3 candidates; the outgoing council will decide - in conjunction with Nokia's Community Manager (currently Quim) - about how to proceed. The preferred solution is to encourage more members of the maemo.org community to participate and re-run the election, but ''all'' options are open.
# Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
## Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
## The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
## Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.

== HFC Rule List ==
The 5 (or 3) council members will be elected by the community.

# Nominations will be '''accepted during a 2 week period at least one week before the''' election begins from any community member with a [[karma]] of 100 or above*.
# Elections last for 1 week.
# Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months, and have karma of 10 or above*, may vote.
# Each community member eligible to vote gets a single ballot.
# The 5 nominees voted for most, as counted by a single transferrable vote system are elected.
# Nominees with a professional interest in Maemo, such as working for Nokia - or any other company involved in Maemo-related software development - must declare their interest when advertising their nomination. Failure to do so may result in the Nokia Community Manager, or the outgoing Council, declaring their nomination invalid and so bar them from standing in the current election.
# There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-election.
# The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
# The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
# If fewer than '''or equal to''' 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
# If there are fewer than '''or equal to''' 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
## The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
## If, after 1 month's delay, there are still fewer than 3 candidates; the outgoing council '''in conjunction with the Hildon Foundation Board of Directors shall decide''' how to proceed. The preferred solution is to encourage more members of the maemo.org community to participate and re-run the election, but ''all'' options are open.
# Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
## Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
## The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
## Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.

<nowiki>*The exact eligibility requirements are determined by the HFC according to the Hildon Foundation bylaws in the Electorate and Nomination Requirements, but the current council proposes keeping the same elibility requirements.</nowiki>

Community Council/council rules referendum

2013-03-22T20:23:05Z

98.230.32.237: /* HFC Rule List */

= Community Council Rules Amendment Referendum =

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. We need to set up election rules for this new body (Hildon Foundation Council) and transform Maemo Community Council to Hildon Foundation Council.

The Maemo Community Council election rules ( http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...ection_process ) are a good base to start with, but they have a drawback: While there is a provision to avoid unelected members for less than 5 members, this provision does not cover the actual number five resulting in all 5 candidates to be appointed councillors (what has currently happened). This should be corrected and the clause "If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council. " must be changed to "...fewer than or equal to five...". For the same reason, the clause "If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held. " must be changed to "...fewer than or equal to three...".

Thus, a referendum is called with the following question:

In order to repair special cases in MCC rules, and bring them into alignment with HFC rules, the following: ([[#MCC Rule List]]) Shall become ([[#HFC Rule List]]), and the Maemo Community Council will from now on be transformed into Hildon Foundation Council. Yes or No?

Follow the discussion here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1330915

== MCC Rule List ==
The 5 council members will be elected by the community.

# Nominations will be accepted 2 weeks before the election begins from any community member with a [[karma]] of 100 or above.
# Elections last for 1 week.
# Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months, and have karma of 10 or above, may vote.
# Each community member eligible to vote gets a single ballot.
# The 5 nominees voted for most, as counted by a single transferrable vote system are elected.
# Nominees with a professional interest in Maemo, such as working for Nokia - or any other company involved in Maemo-related software development - must declare their interest when advertising their nomination. Failure to do so may result in the Nokia Community Manager, or the outgoing Council, declaring their nomination invalid and so bar them from standing in the current election.
# There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-election.
# The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
# The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
# If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
# If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
## The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
## If, after 1 month's delay, there are still fewer than 3 candidates; the outgoing council will decide - in conjunction with Nokia's Community Manager (currently Quim) - about how to proceed. The preferred solution is to encourage more members of the maemo.org community to participate and re-run the election, but ''all'' options are open.
# Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
## Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
## The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
## Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.

== HFC Rule List ==
The 5 council members will be elected by the community.

# Nominations will be '''accepted during a 2 week period at least one week before the''' election begins from any community member with a [[karma]] of 100 or above*.
# Elections last for 1 week.
# Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months, and have karma of 10 or above*, may vote.
# Each community member eligible to vote gets a single ballot.
# The 5 nominees voted for most, as counted by a single transferrable vote system are elected.
# Nominees with a professional interest in Maemo, such as working for Nokia - or any other company involved in Maemo-related software development - must declare their interest when advertising their nomination. Failure to do so may result in the Nokia Community Manager, or the outgoing Council, declaring their nomination invalid and so bar them from standing in the current election.
# There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-election.
# The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
# The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
# If fewer than '''or equal to''' 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
# If there are fewer than '''or equal to''' 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
## The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
## If, after 1 month's delay, there are still fewer than 3 candidates; the outgoing council will decide - in conjunction with Nokia's Community Manager (currently Quim) - about how to proceed. The preferred solution is to encourage more members of the maemo.org community to participate and re-run the election, but ''all'' options are open.
# Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
## Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
## The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
## Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.

*The exact eligibility requirements are determined by the HFC according to the Hildon Foundation bylaws in the Electorate and Nomination Requirements, but the current council proposes keeping the same elibility requirements.

Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure

2013-02-02T03:54:12Z

98.230.32.237: /* Introduction */

== Introduction ==
[up to date as of 2013-01-30]
Albeit Nokia's plans about discontinuation of maemo support been known since spring 2012, Nokia gave "Go" to Nemein (service provider on behalf of Nokia) for the real migration work not earlier than 2 weeks before christmas 2012.

As of January, 18th 2013 the *.maemo.org infrastructure has been consolidated from a 20+ physical servers to current config and completely migrated to new locations independant of Nokia servers. This task been accomplished by Nemein. Talk.maemo.org forum been integrated with the other infra, many thanks to Nemein for donating the VM for that. Also many thanks to Nemein for this incredible piece of work done during times when others (as well as the guys there) usually are already away for winter holidays.

The current setup (see below) consists of around 10 Virtual Machines hosted by Nemein on their xen-grid. This is an interim solution since the hardware (servers) Nokia will donate to the community is not purchased/installed yet. Nokia paid Nemein for this consolidation/migration and hosting until end of February.

Handing over control to community still pending, right now (2013-01-30) it's still Nemein and affiliates to control that infra.

Transfer of control over (*.)maemo.org DNS entries is still being negotiated between Nokia and HiFo, all DNS changes done so far been done by Nokia dnsmaster on Nemein's request

The plans of council and HiFo board so far are: kindly ask Nemein to migrate the VM from xen-grid to our own servers as soon as they are installed, so we will inherit all *.maemo.org nicely bundled. We hope for this setup to be free of major known bugs (I.E. autobuilder working, repository working albeit maybe slow) when Nemein hands us the package.

Further plans are to migrate again (yes, this will be 3rd migration then) from our servers to some hosted root servers, either on a sponsor like http://osuosl.org/about-osuosl or to our own stuff we may rent from e.g. Hetzner. This is necessary since we can't afford running our own hardware, colocation costs and hw maintenace would kill us, sooner or later. After we accomplished this 3rd migration, we like to get rid of the server hardware. Purchase price been ~7000EUR, offers are welcome.

Alternatives - however obvious - for the above plans have been discussed with Nemein and HiFo and are not feasible. E.G. there is no way we could get the money instead of the server hardware. Sustaining the current xen-grid based VM hosting would be ~1500EUR per month plus a basically not evadable 2200EUR on top for maintenace. We want to switch away from that by all means, thus the 2nd migration to our own hardware during next 4 weeks the latest.

This page is intended as a central place where status and other operational information can be gathered.

== Inventory (obsolete, please update) ==

As a first step we try to gather information about the present infrastructure at *.maemo.org. This "inventory" is intended to provide an overview about all components of the infrastructure as well as to provide information that will later on aid during the actual migration.

Currently the following topics are considered important for the migration:

* Legal Issues (Names, Trademarks, Domain Names, etc.)
* Infrastructure (Web Site, Forum, Wiki, Autobuilder, Mailinglists, Garage, etc.)

== Legal Issues ==

=== What is the state about the name "Maemo"? ===
"... Maemo is currently a registered trademark of Nokia and the domain name is owned by Nokia.

=== Who owns "maemo.org"? ===
Negotiations about domain ownership still ongoing between Hildon Foundation board and Nokia (2013-01-20), if community can't get control over the DNS, we might revert to maemocommunity.org.

Domain ID:D105692361-LROR 
Domain Name:MAEMO.ORG 
Created On:07-Feb-2005 16:26:32 UTC 
Last Updated On:07-Jan-2013 10:25:55 UTC 
Expiration Date:07-Feb-2014 16:26:32 UTC 
Sponsoring Registrar:MarkMonitor Inc. (R37-LROR) 
Registrant ID:mmr-31461 
Registrant Name:Nokia Corporation 
Registrant Organization:Nokia Corporation 
Registrant Street1:P.O.Box 226 
Registrant Street2:Nokia Group 
Registrant Postal Code:00045 
Registrant Country:FI 
Registrant Phone:+358.718008000 
Registrant FAX:+358.718034496 
Registrant Email:dnsauthority@nokia.com 

== What is needed for the community to run maemo.org? ==
TMO forums donated to Hildon Foundation: http://maemo.org/community/board/tmo_forums_donated_to_hildon_foundation/

== What are the costs? ==
Nokia paid for hosting until end of February.
Current (2013-01-30) interim config (VM on Nemein's xen-grid) will cost 1300EUR/month for the VM, plus 2200EUR/month for the maintenance. For the colocation rackspace, traffic, energy etc of the pysical server(s) Nokia donates to community there will be another 500+EUR/month. All excl VAT.

At end of February we hope to drop the xen-grid VM since they shall run in a virtualization on the server hardware by then.

If you're willing to donate, please visit http://hildonfoundation.org/support/

== What about the personal information of the users? ==
Please refer to the privacy policy posted on the website. If you want info about what's the data stored about you inside *maemo.org, or want this data / your account getting permanently deleted, please contact council@maemo.org

== Operational Platform ==
For now (2013-01,02) all services are implemented as VM running on Nemein's xen-grid. Plan is to migrate those VM to a virtualization installed on the serevrs (see below) that Nokia donates to the community. This hardware is not yet purchased and installed (2013-01-30).

List of hardware Nokia will donate to HiFo, according to Nemein's plans. [TBD]

{| class="sortable wikitable" border="2"
|-
! ID
! Hostname
! Mgmt IP Address
! OOB Mgmt IP Address
! Type (Virtual / Baremetal)
! System Admin
! HW Vendor
! HW Model
! Form Factor
! CPU
! Memory
! Disk
! Acquisition Date
! Warranty
! Services
! Comment
|-
| 01
|
|
|
| Baremetal
|
|
|
| 2U 19" Rackmount
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
| 02
|
|
|
| Baremetal
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

=== OS and virtulization on community servers (planning, discussion) ===
Please don't forget to tag your contributions with your nick!
====Server OS====
===== alternative A =====
blabla-OS
===== alternative B =====
===== alternative C =====

====Virtulization====
===== alternative A =====
XEN (with OS blabla of above)
===== alternative B =====
VMware
===== alternative C =====

=== Services ===
The following table is intended to give a concise and easily perceivable overview of the *.maemo.org services. Please use the next sub-section for providing more detailed information.

{| class="sortable wikitable" border="2"
|-
! Resource
! URL (If Applicable)
! Migration Status (DONE/WIP/NST)
! Service Maintainer
! System Admin
! Software Name
! Software Version
! Software License
! Known Issues
! Last status update
|-
| Maemo Main Web Site
| http://www.maemo.org
| style="background-color:lime;" |1 DONE
| ?
| ?
|
|
|
| orphaned links/404s: http://maemo.org/community/council/system_operator_needed/
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Maemo Forums
| http://talk.maemo.org
| style="background-color:yellow;" |1 WIP
| [[User:chemist|chemist]], Reggie
| Eero, [[User:chemist|chemist]]
| vBulletin
|
| Unlimited duration, no upgrades included, acquired on 2012-20-12
| Captcha image issues
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Maemo Wiki
| http://wiki.maemo.org
| style="background-color:yellow;" |1 WIP
| ?
| Nemein
|
|
|
| (Watch) Email not working; random connection timeouts
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Repositories
| http://repository.maemo.org
| style="background-color:yellow;" |1 WIP
| X-Fade
| Nemein
|
|
|
| former akamai serverfarm, now points to stage.m.o VM master of farm, OFFLINE, DNS change pending
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Blog aggregator
| http://planet.maemo.org
| style="background-color:lime;" |1 DONE
| ?
| Nemein
|
|
|
|
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Maemo Garage
| https://garage.maemo.org/
| style="background-color:lime;" |1 DONE
|
| Nemein
|
|
|
|
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Maemo Autobuilder
|
| style="background-color:red;" |1 NST
| X-Fade
| Nemein
|
|
|
| OFFLINE
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Maemo Nameservers
|
| style="background-color:red;" |1 NST
| ?
| Nokia
|
|
|
| Still using Nokia Nameservers
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Drop
| http://drop.maemo.org
| style="background-color:yellow;" |1 WIP
| X-Fade
| Nemein
|
|
|
|
| 2013-01-25
|-
| VCS
| http://vcs.maemo.org
| style="background-color:yellow;" |1 WIP
|
| Nemein
|
|
|
| OFFLINE
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Listserv
| https://lists.maemo.org
| style="background-color:yellow;" |1 WIP
|
| Nemein
|
|
|
| HTTP requests produce 404 errors
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Static
| http://static.maemo.org
| style="background-color:yellow;" |1 WIP
|
| Nemein
|
|
|
| temporary fix via NAT redir, instable?
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Stage
| http://stage.maemo.org
| style="background-color:red;" |1 obsolete
| X-Fade
| Nemein
|
|
|
| VM got assigned to repository.m.o via DNAT redir, DNS changes pending (remove stage, change repo)
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Bugs
| http://bugs.maemo.org
| style="background-color:lime;" |1 DONE
| Andre
| Nemein
|
|
|
| -
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Scratchbox
| http://scratchbox.org/
| style="background-color:red;" |1 ?
| ?
| Nemein
|
|
|
| 80.248.164.245, Logica Finland Oy
| 2013-01-25
|-
| Voting Infrastructure
| ?
| style="background-color:red;" |1 ?
| woody14619
|
|
|
| ?
| ?
| 2013-01-25
|}

=== More Detailed Information ===
In this sub section more detailed information about the entries in the table can be placed. The intent is to keep the table concise while still being able to have all relevant information at hand.

List of VMs and their associated IPs:
IP adresses
188.117.59.198 test.maemo.org
# www.maemo.org maemo.org
188.117.59.200 www.maemo.org
188.117.59.200 planet.maemo.org
188.117.59.200 static.maemo.org
188.117.59.199 drop.maemo.org
188.117.59.207 garage.maemo.org
188.117.59.204 lists.maemo.org
188.117.59.202 wiki.maemo.org
188.117.59.212 bugs.maemo.org
188.117.59.203 repository.maemo.org
188.117.59.205 stage.maemo.org
188.117.59.206 vcs.maemo.org

==== Forum (talk.maemo.org) ====
Unlike the other services, talk.maemo.org is not behind the endian firewall. Maintenence access is not via test jumpserver.

Software: vBulletin
licence: Unlimited duration, no upgrades included, acquired on 2012-20-12

=== Scratchbox ===
Scratchbox is also sponsored by Nokia. (Please verify?)
Scratchbox is required for running the Fremantle and Harmattan SDK.

Currently there's a VM on Nemein's xen-grid named "scratchbox", but state of the case is unclear.

===Maintainers (please update/augment/fix)===
(please don't usually pester maintainers directly! First try to contact council@maemo.org, we'll forward)

Nemein / x-fade|Niels Breet, Niels at maemo.org (mail, IRC, ???...)

maemo / chemist|Ruediger Schiller, chemist at <to-be-disclosed-by-owner> (talk)

??? / andre_|Andre Klapper, ??? at ??? (bugs)

??? / ???, ??? at ??? (wiki)

(planet???):...

...

== Steering ==
council is in charge of any steering.
Joerg Reisenweber got appointed for "maemo.org infra administration coordinator" and thus is the single point of coordination for any detail questions.

== More ==

* OBS @ TiZen or SuSe : https://bugs.tizen.org/jira/browse/TINF-48?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel