Re: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
 

Conspiracy theories are cooooool. :rolleyes:

Re: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
 

Wow! this is getting tired... If you do not wish to comment constructively on what I actually proposed in this thread, fine. Move on...



For the record no one said anything about a concpiracy...

... also, I now understand Texrat's earlier fishing analogy. :)

Re: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
 

Umm, sorry to rain on your parade, but Open Source Software is all about freedom.

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http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=36

That's exactly what I was saying to you two days ago.

Re: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
 

Freedom as in speech, not necessarily beer. Some do make money in the OSS world.

Ah... clouds clearing... sun returning... fish biting... :D

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I know of plenty of OSS that is sold via retail channels. So its NOT always about free.

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for the n810 the bar was set low as to who got a developers discount. I wrote a small script to change some settings for the 770 and answered a few questions on itt. This time if they give out discounts for 500 people, a karma of 60 will be needed. That's if karma is all that is needed.

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Well I truly hope hope you earned yourself a device with your vigorous defense of a position that no one attacked dude. Peace.

...and for the record I will now restate the thought that prompted my participation in this thread.

I am glad Nokia took the initiative and got devices in the hands of some of the community before the general release. :)

***

The possibility that a particularly helpful and knowledgeable young man may have a new N900 as he begins a new school year kind of makes me proud to be associated in a small way with Nokia and this community.

@ Texrat

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I think I'm starting to feel some love...

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Please discuss the OSS free/libre elsewhere since it's unrelated with the topic. If you can stop playing tennis here many will appreciate it as well. :) I think everybody following the threas got the points.

I actually agree with you. 200 karma feels like a right orientative thresold BUT DO NOT GET OBSESSED WITH KARMA as we are not.

Let us deploy the N900 device program, see who can apply and then you can start looking whether we missed someone essential.

By the way, I was serious supporting debernardis' proposal. If you are serious about it as well please go ahead. And as a test, check whether your potential candidates would have a karma belos 200. If only to check how well/bad the karma system actually works.

Re: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
 

what is karma?

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This is Karma

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http://wiki.maemo.org/Karma

http://maemo.org/profile/list/

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So if you have a karma of 300+, should you be worried that you haven't been contacted yet? :)

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Ouch, poor me -- hey I need some "thanks" people. This post could use a lot of thanks. ;-D

Nathan.

Re: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
 

Hi Gnuite! Good to see you around. :)

Let me improve the string I used already for penguinbait:

In other words: work making your software available in Fremantle Extras.

Also, the fact that a developer like you has around 300 karma points and no more shows that we need to do something about http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...heir_software/

Please vote and contribute to that proposal (but not in this thread because it's off-topic and there is already another thread open about it http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=31519

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rofl, all my accounts are registered under different emails I think (bug list reporting, my maemo talk account, whatever). But interesting to learn.

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You can add your emails to your profile and they will count.

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I wish there was some Karma for the number of hours spent here. My Karma will definitely jump to 200+ then!

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This does not seem to me to be am improvment? Is this saying that if the software is not in Fremantle we aren't considered?

You can't win can you...

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How many times do I need to say "relax"? :)

People like me are paid to make everybody win.

I have nothing more to say, really. Once the device program is announced you will be able to give feedback and discuss based on something tangible.

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Any more openings like that? :D

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Texrat, your English skills have nothing on him.

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I've moved requests for Nokia Maps alternatives for Maemo 5 --and related discussion--to their own thread.

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qgil sounded like Ali G on that one. LOL

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English isn't his first language, but he does damn well at it... and I can't say anything because I only speak one. :o

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I didn't know he wasn't a native English speaker. Just thought it was a typo. But hey, I only speak Hoodlish myself, so I'm at a disadvantage too.

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In fact it is not his second language neither. First one is Catalan and second Spanish (or the other way arround). Not bad for a third language.

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"So you're saying there's a chance..." (from a guy with squat for karma. :(

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I believe you'd be hard pushed to find anyone whose mother tongue is full blown catalan.

Re: N900 device program / developer, promoter discount?
 

Uh? Considering that catalunya has a population of around 6 millions and not all of them are immigrants, there are several millions people with catalan as their mother tongue.

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Please, there's an interesting section in this forum called "Off Topic", go there.

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News about the next steps in the N900 device program expected this week. Please be patient.

The last thing tmo needs is a thread about Catalan so I'll cut it here: CrashandDie, next time we sit on the same table I will explain you one thing or two about Catalan native speakers. :) fwiw the tonge of my mother is German, so you can add that one to the mix.

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It is not easy to be patient with 300+ people already having the device and hacking stuff like mad :-)

Personally I feel almost physical pain when seeing stuff like this :-)

Be patient, mmm, sure, no problem at all :-)

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qgil: Hervorragend! Leider hier in Amiland redet (fast) keiner Deutsch. (Also höre ich z.B. MDR Info und lese die FAZ im Internet). :)

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fanoush, why so tense? Don't you have the arrival of your Pandora to look forward to?
;)

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I am wondering how so many pre-release devices could have been handed out, before and during summit, and yet Fanoush does not yet have one. It makes me wonder about the thought process behind this. It seems to me perhaps there could have been some better thought behind releasing pre-release devices. In the past this has always been done badly. This time devices were actually out and in the hands before the public, some developers / hackers received n900's prior to summit. Yet Fanoush sits without a device?

How could he be overlooked? Seriously?

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Well, I guarantee that fanoush would have been voted for full Summit sponsorship if he had applied, and then he would have gotten one for sure.

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Well I am sure I could have done the same, but I could not make the trip. Sometimes life gets in the way of wants. However it does not negate the fact that the way it is handled, while better than in the past, obviously not optimal.