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In fact we didn't have to think much to approve the sponsorship request from a guy like you. :)

http://maemo.org/news/events/maemo_summit-001/

What I'm actually surprised is about the lack of sponsorship requests coming from the rest of core contributors. Specially those flying from outside Europe should register asap so we can book flights earlier.

LATER MEANS MORE EXPENSIVE MEANS LESS BUDGET FOR INVITING MORE CONTRIBUTORS

Thank you for your understanding. Please hurry up!

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WOW, not really sure how I missed this thread??

I want to come, I would need to go get a passport within the next two days, before I leave on vacation. because its gonna take two months to get it. It would be really cool to come meet so many names :)

I just dont think its in my cards this year. Hey Quim, Hawaii would be a nice middle ground for next years summit :)

Safe flights everyone, I look forward to the movie :D

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GO NOW!

BUMMER! I was really really really hoping you'd be going.

EDIT: I'll buy you beer!

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Penguinbait - be there! I want to bend your ear at least and I' sure there are many others :)

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In Spain you can get a passport in 2 days, literally. I have no clue how this works in the US though. I guess US citizens don't need to get any visa in advance and they can get it just at the airport, like EU citizens do (when the White House is not paranoid about something out there). ;)

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Its crazy, now I am supposed to have a passport to travel to Canada, you used to only need a drivers licence. It looks like they are only running about 4 weeks out at the moment.

http://travel.state.gov/passport/get...sing_1740.html

I'm still just not sure I could make it. Its very very cool you are doing this though. I am really going to try to plan for next year. Quim will this be an annual event, can we expect Maemo Summit 2009? Is it possible to get 6 months advanced notice of dates/location for next year?

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penguinbait!

pleasepleaseplease try!

And as for the passport to Canada business, that's not our fault. You guys are the ones who started requiring the passport!

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Oh I am not blaming Canada, if Canada were only south of the US, I would have defected long ago :)

I am in Michigan though, so I need someplace warmer, NOT colder :D

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Ask this question right after a successful Maemo Summit 2008. ;)

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Come live in Vancouver. We're warmer than Michigan. At least in the winter. In the summer, we're cooler.

Well, we think we're cooler than most all year round. Dare you to find a corner without a Starbucks.

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This SIZE=6 keeps me wondering...

How many key contributors are still missing the fact that we want then in the Maemo Summit and we even can help them landing and sleeping in Berlin.

Like John Costigan aka gnuite aka the Mapper brain. Is it suspicious or not that he hasn't said anything. Can you please help poking the right guys? Think of it: all the beauties they can discuss and hack when sharing the same roof some days...

PS: for planning purposes I'm thinking of closing the sponsorship program around August 1st. To give you an idea about deadlines.

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Well, you can PM all the people on that list (I can do just did that, actually...) but there are some people who've made major contributions that don't hang out on here.

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Also, it's vacation season... For instance, Mr. T. Rat hasn't been heard from for a few weeks...

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Go to Mexico; they have better wireless plans, anyway. :D

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And has a full PM inbox...

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I tried to message qgil privately about this, but couldn't, so here's my response.

I'm flattered to be mentioned in this group and don't deserve to be. However, I'd be glad to come. I don't have ANY money, sorry about that. If I can apply for sponsorship, I'd be glad to do it.

My expertise is supposedly in customer service. I don't feel like an expert, but I did a lot of work in that area for Quarterdeck, a company some of you may have heard of, which was eventually swallowed by Symantec. I could try to come up with some new ideas on the easy-to-misuse topic of users. I can't think of any other way I could contribute or I would suggest it.

If anyone has questions or feedback for me that should be private, feel free to PM me.

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Quarterdeck was my 1st multitasking environment. Symantec was not even born, or I have NOT heard of at that time. Quarterdeck was my hero, so does people assoc with Quarterdeck, like geneven.

bun

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Just for fun, I looked it up, Vancouver to Berlin = 7989 km, or 4964 miles.

Anybody coming from farther away?

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Yeah, sorry for being suspicious. :) I'm in the middle of a cross-country road trip at the moment, and I'm lucky to have any internet access at all! I've been missing out on all the latest and greatest ITT posts.

In any case, I sent my registration in with request for sponsorship. (Thanks to Benson for poking my ITT message box.) And I've been approved. So I'll see you guys at the Maemo Summit. :) (And hopefully also at OSiM World?)

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OK, I received that PM reminder from Benson, and my only question is: Why?

Why wasn't my name taken off that list the moment it popped up? Why does anyone think I could bring a useful contribution? I don't program, I don't port, I don't blog, I frankly don't even know how I got all these thanks.

So unless you really -- and I mean really -- need someone on that summit to continually b*tch about Nokia and what they did wrong with the Itablet platform, or someone to ask incessant questions on when we're going to get true HWR on the N800, I'm gonna pass...

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Well, I'm flattered. I stumbled upon iTT almost 3 yrs ago in my quest for a linux based handheld with wifi. My best bet up til that point was an iPAQ with linux on it - - *shiver*. Til then the only contribution I made was randomly helping newbies when I was able. Oh. And I convinced someone to compile Dopewars.

While I could probably stay away from the beer halls long enough to participate coherently (albeit with a strong headache day 2 onward), I'm completely unable to. (Cost, time away from work, etc.)

HOWEVER. I hate you guys. I really hate you guys. I have 3 other browser tabs open and am comparing Canadian prices for the N810. So far the lowest price from a reputable site is $387.

Stay tuned.

P.S. I hate you guys. :rolleyes:

Oh, and Geneven? QEMM was awesome. ;)

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On a separate note. (I finally read every post in this thread...) If there are people from North America who can't make it, why not (get ready, this is spectacular - - ) - - videoconference!

I'd love to see some of the presentations/talks as they happen (if they could be streamed) and it'd be great to hear guys like Penguinbait talk from home Michigan (if he could be videoconferenced).

If all that is too technologically unfeasible, why not pre-recorded talks or something?

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I got the e-mail for this yesterday and I think it's an amazing idea, however, I think I would like to pass my chance on to someone else who has been active lately. I haven't been active enough, I feel, to deserve this due to my lack of a tablet. I sold my N800 thinking that my developer device N810 would come through.

So as much as I want to go, I think it's just fair for it to go to someone that's been a lot more active here as of late and deserves it more.

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But zerojay, this is your chance to grab someone from Nokia by the lapels and say, "gimme my N810, dagnabit!" :D ;)

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No, "only" 6,606 km (3,567 miles) for me. However, as the least expensive flights appear to originate with Northwest Airlines, there's a good chance I'll be heading west to Detroit before making any progress east.

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I've added some comments to the wiki page:

https://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Maemo_Su...008_recordings

Jamie, if you'd like to collaborate, that might be cool... Or, if you just want to be the one that does it, that would be fine too. Add comments to the wiki.

Tim

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Seconded. Zerojay--preferably wearing his Pac-Man hat--chasing Nokia employees while screaming for a working N810 developer discount code would be extremely memorable.

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If you sign the comment (~~~~), it will help others resolve the first-person singular personal pronoun there.

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I love you guys. :)

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Before I send my information off to the travel agency, is there any reason a nobody like me should be considering OSiM? The sessions look interesting, sure, but it's already costing Maemo a disturbingly large amount of money to bring me to the summit, and as I've not done any development for the tablets, sending me to OSiM doesn't sound like a good investment. I'm simply asking in case we're all to try to make it to OSiM in order to meet up and discuss, work on, what-have-you Maemo/maemo.org things as a build up to the summit proper.

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Is this sponsorship like... all expenses paid or something? Sorry, I can't say I've looked into this all that much yet.. anyone fill me in?

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I'm hoping to attend OSiM and attend Ari's keynote as well as attend the other keynotes and sessions.

I'm arriving Tuesday the 16th, around noon: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2008/Travel

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It covers OSiM World registration, round trip travel to Berlin, and accommodations. It doesn't cover travel within Berlin or meals. There are more details on the Maemo Summit 2008/Sponsorship wiki page.

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I will probably get directly for the Summit and by train. I also have no idea how to search or register for accommodations in Berlin though.

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No me neither, I guess I'll trust to the wiki and/or Lonely Planet or something. As much as I like adventure, I'm not 21 anymore, so a bunk bed in a hostel just isn't enough for me anymore... :(

EDIT: Nokia, sponsor Tim Samoff, I want to meet him, and compare beer preferences with him, too!

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They are doing so.

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Thanks a bunch for that PM Benson ! I had managed to miss that thread altogether...

I'm flattered that I'm still on Quim's list of "rock stars" despite having being very discreet over here since early this year... mostly out of work overload, sadly. Things have been pretty hectic lately and I've kind of burn out.

I still visit ITT daily at least, but due to the sustained high level of activity I barely skim through the new posts to keep in touch and get an idea of what's happening. It's a kind of self-inflicted torture though, because I see a lot of great stuff go by with no time or energy left to try it out... haven't even flashed Diablo yet, let alone all that's coming in from qwerty12 or Qole or others... KDE, debian, Android, rotation, specialty kernels and whatnot. Sigh...

Although living almost net door I haven't been to Germany in quite a while, and never to Berlin, so I'd really love to grab the chance and be on another planet for a while. Obviously I'll have to confirm that with my job schedule first though... and family :-)

Also, as many here, I do wonder what sort of a contribution I could make there. After all I'm not a Linux hacker, nor a prolific porter, not even a real coder... just a user with a really big mouth (and not quite the biggest either :-)

I do have a small idea however, so if all the other problems clear up all the way to Berlin, that wouldn't be a showstopper.

Anyway, whatever happens, many thanks to Quim for the offer (and for organizing the whole shebang, which must be quite some task :-), and to you for the heads-up !

fpp

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Oh come on Karel... surely you speak some German ? I still remember the whole of "Die Lorelei" from my high school days... maybe we could do a duet on that ? But mostly we need you to DRINK BEER WITH, man !
'nuff said :-)

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Well, I went ahead and registered despite my maemo profile showing that I have a negative 108 karma. Looking at the karma system, it seems some people are more personal than topical when it comes to voting things down and I know I have two or three anti-fans doing this.

I noticed the same thing with other users, too. This user's post has a thumbs-down from someone though it is clearly pertinent to the Internet tablets and I've noticed that feed has other targeted thumbs-down.

In Internet Tablet related posts (excluding those that are clearly unrelated to the maemo community,) here's the trend I see:

• If it's an alternative Linux distro (debian, android) but is on the internet tablets, some people give it thumbs-down.
• If it's for the tablets but closed source (like some INdT products) a few people give it thumbs-down
• If it is about commercial applications, some people give it thumbs-down.
• If it's by certain people regardless of content, some people give it thumbs-down.

I wish I knew who those people were. I'd give them a thumb-down T-shirt and a mirror and hope they get lost in that little world.

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It's a news rating system, if somebody doesn't like a story they thumb it, if they don't like the submitter they thumb it, if they don't like the subject they thumb it. Who cares? :rolleyes:

Who put you in charge of deciding which opinions should be allowed? ;)

Personally, I'd have to wear karma like that like a badge of pride. :D