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Well, if there's [non-German] beer...

Seriously, I really doubt I deserve a sponsorship, but if I could get a ticket in and maybe a pointer to a hotel room, I'd probably come for a laugh. It's merely a matter of hopping in a train and bringing enough reading stuff for the trip.

Just don't expect any amazing software contributions from me.

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It's not just about software contributions, we'd also like to arrange some Community chats, interaction, etc. from the big hitters in the Community (and others).

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Valid point, Mr. General! - and I wasn't saying that something should/should not be allowed. I was just spotting a trend.

Tell you what: if you and I both make it there, I'll have some made. You'll have to tell me sizes and preferred color. Deal?

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I'll cop to vindictively thumbing Aisu's posts. I was getting tired of the screaming Debian and Android announcements, and he had a post with a very prominent "GIVE ME MONEY PLS" section which pushed me over the top. ;)

I might be singing a different tune if "No Thanks!" had ever been implemented here. ;)

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It's amazing how many humble people we have here on ITT!

I would love to come, but have no money, and don't consider myself having contributed enough to the community (I have a couple plans for the future, but they're all still eggs). Moreover, people that I've seen here that have REALLY done ALLOT.... and they are saying that they don't deserve to go! If the people who have posted above me don't, then who does? :p

Personally, I'll take a chance and see if I can design a nice logo for maemo, if not, well there's always next year. (and I'm sure I won't be missed lol)

--Jon

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I hope you both do make it. Talk about the definition of "rock stars", although GA has more of a punk rock star attitude...

That -108 karma is hilarious! I want to go out now and give "thumbs down" to all of Thoughtfix's posts, just so it can be even more absurd!

EDIT: There's something weird in general with thoughtfix's profile.... -123 blogs?!

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Well, it's weird how some people become rock stars... I wrote a couple of shell scripts (one of which I mostly borrowed from penguinbait) and made a .deb package out of it all, and suddenly I'm a "rock star"... Whatever.

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I'm beginning to think the summit should include a "least worthy of being here" competition.

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But nobody would think they were worthy to enter the competition.

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GeneralAntilles, are you going?

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Hi, this is off-topic but...

I'm a regular follower of the Maemo news, being always curious about the ratings. I think in most cases and for more people the ratings make sense... if you consider that maemo.org has been until now a place for open source & non-profit software for developers and power users. Think also that people are not necessarely voting "against you", they might just want to avoid that off-topic news hit the front. What is off-topic? That is subjective...

As a general pattern, Thoughtfix gets thumbs down when talking about consumer devices (including tablets seen as consumer products), Nokia/Nseries PPRR activities, commercial software. You also get some thumbs down just because you summarize about the news, the original news is already on the top and people give thumbs down to echoes not adding more information, which imo is part of a useful community editorial work.

Krisse got also some when her articles were considered perhaps too basic for that audience. Karoliina got thumbs down blogging about Ubuntu desktop and Vala (in the desktop too). The poor Zeeshan gets thumbs down even when blogging about GUPnP development upstream... probably by people ignoring that libgupnp is installed in their devices. That's it, or am I missing anyone?

So what? Does anybody doubt about the overall merits of Thoughtfix, Krisse, Karoliina and Zeeshan in the Maemo development and community? I don't.

I reckon the system is unfair for some individuals and the 4 mentioned above came to complain at some point. If we look at the overall system though I think the process is quite good (and it would be good to have more people rating actually) and the top 5 news in the front are really the most interesting stuff going on most of the times.

The garage news could get more visibility, some of them are quite interesting (many of them are just 2 basic lines though). They always get underrated, I guess because most of the people ratign follow http://planet.maemo.org instead of http://maemo.org/news

Conclusion: Daniel don't worry.

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Thanks, Quim!
After watching that pattern and reading your response, I realize that some people are "purists" and want only "maemo as a development platform" related news. It started as a development platform that later evolved into a community but never took things like "editorial content" and "related consumer news" into any official capacity. If that's the case: to each their own.

I still want to make thumbs-down shirts for GeneralAntilles and myself. ;)

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That would be cool, but I don't know how I'd be able to pull it off. I *might* have enough airline miles by then to pay for the trip... but I won't know until mid August. Anyway, I'll hit you up in corporate email.

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Welcome back, Texrat. We need you to come! Mr. Gil, make it happen.

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Sorry, I guess I never got around answering for certain either way in this thread, but that'd be a "no". ;) Scheduling issues and whatnot that wont be resolved for sure until well after the the sponsorships are handed out, and I don't want to take up a slot and end up unable to attend (and definitely wont be able to afford a $1700 plane ticket).

Next get-together. :)

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We have been shopping around for air tickets. RT Berlin to NC can be as low as $810 as of TODAY. Not sure about FL. Orbiz or airline weekend advertisement emails are the most economical. I would be more than happy to furnish more info if interested.


bun

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I feel similar but I hope it is not so bad. I'm not dead yet but became quite slow. My latest (10 days today) project with one fine lady is here and together with the previous one it takes almost all of my time now :-)

I'd love to go but I simply can't promise anything so I'd apply only if canceling in last minute is not a problem (which is of course not the case, booking costs money).

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Well, I started at $2200, and worked down to $1700 from there based on some recommendations from rm_you.

Either way, it's just not gonna happen.

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Hmm...during Oktoberfest?

I signed up. My fredit card is going to hate me. I think I'll fly to Helsinki after the Summit; I was there last summer to visit some good friends in Tuusula and Espoo and loved it. Finland is beautiful.

Oh, and the saunas, can't forget those!

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And use Kayak.com to find rates, they search all those sites. As for me, I'm gonna swipe the hell out of my NWA WorldPerks Visa. I love flying KLM. Do they do a MSP-AMS-BER flight?

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Thanks Fanoush and congratulations - that's a beauty ! (I have two boys and am always jealous of dads with girls :-).

At least you have a valid excuse for throttling back, and a happy one, not a stupid one like mine...

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FYI: NYC <-> Berlin $722 on British Airways.

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Those in attendance, please post a photo of yourself here:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Participant_Photos

Tim

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Er, you're supposed to take your photos using the N8x0 camera of course.. those photos you posted aren't grainy enough so there must be some non-approved equipment involved there..

;)

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Is there a way to correct the registration. I was absolutely positive I selected sponsorship, but it's not listed on the attendees page. Trying to re-register gives me a permission denied. :-( Serves me right for doing the application at 1am.

I would love to demo two way Google doc sync ( or the progress I've made by that point ) :-)

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How does one upload the photos? I'm a bit confused by the wiki syntax....

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Anyone knows if the fring folks are coming to the summit?

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Go to http://wiki.maemo.org/Special:Upload to upload (must be logged-in).

On the wiki page, add:

Tim

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Tim, don't miss http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Participant_Photos

@brontide: edited manually. No it is not possible for users to edit registration because we wanted to avoid the fact of people requesting sponsorship after having registered weeks ago and etc.

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First class on KLM is the only way to go... They spoil you. :)

Lufthansa is a close second, with about the same comfort and amenities but with less personality than KLM crews.

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Okay, so I bit the bullet and registered : #69, auspicious, eh ?
So Karel, you gotta come over for beer.

@quim : please remove the sponsorship request from my registration, I hadn't understood at the time that accommodation was DIY. I was going to pay for my trip anyway, it was just to avoid some hassle if community housing was available.

Also, I must be tired, but I can't find the place where you can propose a presentation or talk or something. I'm sure there must be one ? :-)

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You can add your proposal to the appropriate section of this wiki page.

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Is there a possibility for a second round of sponsorship registrations if there are still not used resources at the end?

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Okay, being a nobody here and all I'm still very curious about the summit and would like to attend, learn and annoy with a bu**load of questions. Given that I can sort it out (just a matter of persuading the gf and checking with my job, I'm from Germany anyway) I could offer to pick some of those poor guys up that have to travel though most of Germany via train (i.e. landing in Dortmund/Duesseldorf etc.).
Corporate car/free fuel is a luxury these days that I'd like to share ;)

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My plane will be landing in Dortmund i guess :)

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Consider a hostel.

Public transport is high quality in Berlin, and sane prices.

Hitchhiking is very doable in Germany.

Booking a train ticket in advance via Deutsche Bahn can save up to 75% provided you book in advance! If you book a week in advance you still get 50% discount. A 25% discount card is also cheap, especially useful is you do further German sightseeing. But you need to order this all in advance!(!!)

I even once met some Belgian students in Berlin who used only local trains. Costed them like 35 EUR one-way, but they travelled about 12 hours from Belgium to Germany...

And, be sure to also visit Berlin centre. E.g. Alexanderplatz, Blinkenlights, CCC Berlin, and a living night time!! :)

PS: Don't forget to try out Club-Mate!

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She is beautiful, so does dad. Congratulation.

bun

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Short answer: NO (with very little room for exceptions).

In fact "my" problem is to see how to be nice to everybody that will request sponsorship before August 1st, even those that really deserve it. Look the registration list, countries of origin... Think also that a notable % are "senior contributors" (read people feeling like their time for youth hostels is kind of over) ;) and also that there are reasonable requests to get inside OSiM World (300€ the lowest bill we can mathematically get per person). We are discussing with the GNOME Foundation to fund a hackfest bringing some OSS upstream guys. And of course we have expenses to pay to c-base: rooms, equipement, etc.

So you see.

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Collaboration is great, the more information we can get from the Summit the better. We can continue this on the wiki. :)

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I may join and bring e.g. some of my n810/n800 controlled DIY USB hardware like the i2c-tiny-usb and the tiltstick.

But since our second child is to be born end of august i can't guarantee anything. One option would be to bring my then 18 month old daughter with me the 500km to berlin. She really likes the n810 and enjoys video conferencing with her mother between bedroom and living room. But she especially enjoys pulling out the n810's stylus and carefully putting it back in place.