After the suggestion from a member of this community (I don’t want to nominate him because I don’t want to influence anyone) I’ve decided to candidate myself for the Maemo Council. Here I’m! You can read something about me and about my motivations in the rest of this post.

Name: Andrea Grandi
maemo.org: Andy80 - http://maemo.org/profile/view/andy80/
Corporate affiliation: none

Introduction

My name is Andrea Grandi, I’m 28 and I live in Pistoia (Tuscany, ITALY). I’m a programmer, in particular very interested in Linux and opensource. I’ve been working for some years as computer programmer, then I decided to begin studing at university, and currently I’m attending at “Università degli studi di Firenze” to get the Computer Science degree. I spend lot of my time to manage the Pistoia Linux User Group I founded in 2001.

My life in the community

I’m part of the community since I bought my first Nokia 770. I started contributing to the mailing lists, I wrote some tutorials (in italian language, then I translated them to english) and I ported SPIM (a MIPS emulator) to Nokia 770. Later I had the possibility to buy a N810 and I was able to experiment more with the Maemo SDK. I was at the Maemo Summit in Berlin, doing a light talk about Maemo development using Eclipse, PluThon and EsBox plugins.

Motivations

I really would like to be able to do more for the community and one of the best way could be to be part of the council, to help both users/developers to explain their requests to Nokia and Nokia to understand the requests from the community. There are a lot of fantastic ideas comung from the community that could improve what we are doing: the key is to organize them and giving them more attention. This is what I’ve always looked for: working together to build something great!