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Hello Sir,


I'm just asking if how to install android gengerbread on nokia n900, i do all the procedures but nothing happen..... please help me.

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There are threads in Android subforum, such as The Grand NITDroid Thread.
And, under heavy construction, article Nitdroid easy install on EMMC.
Best wishes.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY
Nyan Nyah Mayan ayanahanabyabdhsjzhshsjahsnshz*hsnsnahsjsnanzhsnaj snsns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...Ea2SeCI#t=112s

sorry, I thought OT comment on OT post...

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Have moved away from using my N900 - and unfortunately from the TMO community but logging on after months to see this thread made me sad. I guess we knew this day would come and now it really can be a true and independent community (unless our hands get tied by a sponsor).

However - because i do secretly take out the N900 every now and then and play around with it - i think TMO deserves royalty for all it did to help me make the most of my device back in the day. Ready to donate when you need more money.

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just donate USD50 from my Paypal. Hope it helps.
Already totally transmit from Nokia to Blackberry. But can't forget the time I spend here with my N900. Hope the community goes well.

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Hi,

I can't give many money. But I rent a server and can host things (HTTP, FTP, SVN...) if required.

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I too have a limit in giving away money, but then again, who does not? So I chose to forward a small sum.

TMO is _very_ good source of information about Linux phones. If I can afford a sailfish phone, I can help to keep tmo alive.

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Just noticed that my latest donation is in "Unclaimed" status in PayPal. The previous donations to "Cosimo Kroll" have succeeded, however. What gives?

Code:

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May 2 2013  Donation To  Hildon Foundation  Unclaimed  Details    -$20.00 USD

Feb 4 2013  Donation To  Cosimo Kroll        Completed  Details    -$10.00 USD

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Checked mine and found the same thing. In the details page, paypal says:
"Name:
Hildon Foundation (The recipient of this payment is Unverified)
Email:
donations@hildonfoundation.org"

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can anyone update donation list ? last update was on 2013-02-15.

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Same here. My donation from 25 April bounced on 25 May with "unverified recipient".

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Alas it seems HiFo isn't able (or willing) to sort that stuff. I apologize on behalf of BoD. Also for missing update on donation-list, which I myself would like to see updated with most recent data.

/j

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My donation done on 23/05 appears as unclaimed. Btw, this is the second time I donate, and the previous one just returned to me after one month time. Please, somebody must sort that out.

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Unfortunately there has been difficulty setting up the PayPal linkage with the existing HiFo bank account. Currently only one Director can access the account, and the previous treasurer (Cosimo) resigned some time ago.

This was not resolved at the last HiFo meeting, and despite calls for new meetings there has been no action by the other Directors.

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Please not again the old HiFo song :(

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suggest a better one! When you want to donate to HiFo, I guess that old HiFo song is relevant on why that fails atm.
Or maybe I just misunderstood your rant. Sounded like you blaming Woody for his post.

For now you're free to use my paypal account which works. See http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...24#post1326124 for details. Please state detailed purpose on any donation, like "forward to HiFo", "use as seem fit, for maemo.org", "for hardware", simply "for maemo", or whatever.

I'll eventually publish a balance of income vs expenses here and forward any excess of donations not explicitly assigned to techstuff/not-hifo to the Hildon Foundation account, whatever that may be that works, at that time.
Meanwhile we have always some hw to buy and some maemo related rented servers and stuff to pay for, so donations to me are appreciated. Currently my fixed expenses per month are ~70EUR, sure not much but atm it hurts a bit.

/j

edit: since I thought it's a bit mean to have users follow double-redirection, just to find a h-e-n donation link, here a proper link:
[REMOVED SINCE THAT SERVICE NO LONGER AVAILABLE]



here a almost complete listing of expenses and donations (some values are from memory). Names are xxxx'ed out resp left out since I have no OK from donors to publish their identity - holler if you want to see your name next to your donation.

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no no. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm blaiming woody14619. He is the one that does all he can. I want to state that clearly.

The rant was against the rest of the HiFo which is blocking this and that makink problems here and there since a few months.

After all those problems the word HiFo means the pure evil for me :)

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Just donated 10€ to your paypal rather than to HiFo, as long as the issues aren't resolved.
You should consider putting that donation-link in your sig. :)

SD69 and Jimjag that is. Guys, got anything to say? You still with us? :confused:

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thanks! :-)
Had that, until not long ago. effect been zilch. So I removed it. People have a right to get some proper explanation anyway for what they donate. Signature is too short to offer any such context or explanation.

/j

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For the record, I think this is a ridiculous situation. "This has not been resolved at the last meeting?" WTF? People are failing to give you money and you don't set up an immediate emergency meeting to resolve that? The message I am taking from that is that you don't need those donations. I have jus donated to joerg's account but a good practice in any business is, "always make it easy for people to give you money." Even CMOT Dibbler can tell you that.

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Jeorge put that link in 1st page mentioning temp fix in title:)

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I agree. I welcome you to call for a Board meeting. You'll probably have about as much success as I have.

What do you suggest one should do when others are actively being obstructionist. Saying things like "I won't attend a meeting unless all are directors are present". Or having a director that simply doesn't replying for weeks to months on end, with no viable reason.

Even as chair, I have no power to force the other directors to attend a meeting. And a single director can't (through solitary action) cause something to happen. Sadly, through inaction one has been able to halt things from happening.

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So waht can we as the community do withe people which should do what we want and are not doing it and even hurting the community? woody14619 can we, the TMO users help you in any way?

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Well, if you human possibly can, please attend the coming #maemo-meetings to give some approval if desired.

But as our big problem seems to be our "president", I'd suggest you check if HFCs vote from 2013/05/17 #maemo-meeting is valid (I guess according to bylaws) and do the according next steps in close collaboration with HFC.
All this had a good start with this Elections Announcement by Mentalist Traceur, but Rob declared that null, if I'm not mistaken. :rolleyes:
But one thing's for sure: we need valid BoD elections ASAP. Hey, it's already been on MWKN... :o

And denial of sevice is intolerable, that alone should be a reason for community-legal action or re-elections.
Once a proper BoD is in place, we probably should have a look at the bylaws again.

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Not to mention the liability of not having multiple active members of bod with access to banks accounts... what if Rob gets hit by a bus or goes rogue?

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[QUOTE=woody14619;1348100 Sadly, through inaction one has been able to halt things from happening.[/QUOTE]

One can understand the frustration, and more so if one happened to follow the IRC minutes. But frankly, there seemed to be other currents running there too.

For me the issue of a complete dearth of communication: surely someone can write a succint summary of where matters stand in various areas?

Perhaps I am too stupid to be able to follow and integrate what is obvious to everyone else but I am confused....

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+1

The thing is that the Hildon Foundation does not have a good case for asking for donation. Regardless of the messy internal organization, I can't think, right off my mind, of any reason why they need any money.

OTOH, Jörg and the technical team do actually need money to buy/rent stuff and for whatever technical services they need. And heck, for a beer or two when the next fire is put down :)

I intend to donate (again) to Jörg directly.

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Ahh, thanks for the clarification. See, until now I assumed that my HiFo donatgions were used for the tech. I will continue donating to Joerg only from now on.

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and i was beginning to feel bad 'cuz i have started posting again on TMO but still refused to care about politics around here :confused::rolleyes:

Woody, i know it never helped in the past, but would you mind naming names instead of expecting everyone has been following all that mess with intense interest?

isn't there a way for the Community to request a re-election of the Board of Director?
thinking of which, the Board was elected not long after the Council last year
should be up for re-election anyway :mad:

what a mess :(

how does that meritocracy rubbish work exactly? :rolleyes:

why is this discussed on a month old funding thread?
EDIT: 'cuz paypal mess...

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To be clear, the only expenditure of HiFo funds to date (that I'm aware of) have been for community needed items. The vBulletin license for t.m.o, contract costs with IPHH, and recently a switch were all purchased with HiFo funds. The problem is that responsiveness is spotty to non-existent by the one person authorized to access the account since the treasurer resigned. And reimbursements for items purchased by tech staff (that are needed and still in use, like hard drives) have to date not been handled.

Actually, no, there isn't. Just as there's no way for the community to request a re-election of Council. There is a way for HFC to force a Board election, at the cost of forcing another HFC election.

As for the term, Board positions last for 12 months, where Council positions last for 6. The reasoning at the time was that Board would be doing less day-to-day things long term, and having longevity would be a good thing.

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This is not true. I have taken good care of the account since the Treasurer resigned and responded to the last funds request within one day..

"...Upon +1 from another Board Director in addition to myself, I will order the switch using Hildon's US bank account.

Please confirm you prefer to have it delivered care of IPHH?
Rob

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:50:48PM +0200, Falk Stern wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> at the moment we have a pressing performance issue on our hosted hardware.
>
> We currently have a 100MBit managed switch connecting each blade, IPMI
> modules and the uplink to our hoster.

>
> Backups through this switch take a long time and database access could
> be faster.
>
> Techstaff made the decision that we would like to purchase a Netgear
> GS724T-300EUS 24 Port Gigabit switch.
> (http://www.amazon.de/Netgear-GS724T-.../ref=de_a_smtd)
>
> We need a managed switch because different security zones are separated
> by VLANs internally.
>
> The Netgear Switch is the most economical decision. It is rackmounted,
> has 24 ports, which leaves room for further extension, and supports
> everything we need.
>
> Buying HP Procurve or Cisco would be overkill for this.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Falk"

It was Woody who showed up 4 days later (4 days is Ok, but it's wrong for the person who was slow to accuse the person who was faster of being nonresponsive) -

"Sorry for the delay. Lots of things going on with me RL, including a "holiday
weekend" in the states this past weekend.

I'm +1 on this as well. Probably best to order via a German provider (or
Amazon, some company that does business in EU)?"

And then after getting Woody's +1, I ordered the switch within one day to the satisfaction of the sysop-

"Hi Rob,

looks good to me :)

Thanks a lot!

Best,

Falk

robert bauer wrote:
> Falk,
>
> I believe I successfully ordered the switch through amazon.de
> <http://amazon.de>. I'm a bit anxious about it because my German is not
> good. Can you please confirm that the order confirmation below looks
> like everything is done right? There is also a possibility that our US
> bank account will eventually not be accepted although everything seemed
> to work when I made the order through currency converter. Please keep
> us informed as to status. I hope it works out properly.
>
> Rob
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *bestellbestaetigung@amazon.de
> <mailto:bestellbestaetigung@amazon.de>* <bestellbestaetigung@amazon.de
> <mailto:bestellbestaetigung@amazon.de>>
> Date: 2013/5/28
> Subject: Ihre Bestellung bei Amazon.de
> To: "board@hildonfoundation.org <mailto:board@hildonfoundation.org>"
> <board@hildonfoundation.org <mailto:board@hildonfoundation.org>>"

The issue with that request for "reimbursement" was that the request was made without mentioning that funds had already been solicited and donated for the hard drive. The prior donations were not mentioned at the time of the request for "reimbursement", so it is being handled with care in order to ensure that the donations to Hildon Foundation are dispensed properly without duplication. Woody was informed of this concern weeks ago and knew about it when the above comment was made

This also is not true, at least on my part. Here is my response to a meeting request a month ago, WITHIN ONE DAY -

"Let's not try to have a meeting this week. It's too much of a squeeze to try to schedule it and announce it in advance. Next week, I am currently available on Tuesday or Wednesday from 10am-2pm. If Jim can confirm this week that he is available for a meeting during one of those time periods, then we can schedule it and announce it."

Here is my response to Woody's meeting request that he did not make until AFTER the false allegation of being obstructionist quoted above-

"I think the last meeting request I got was more than a month ago. I am currently available next Thursday between 9am-2pm.

I recall Joerg's request to be paid for storage drive he had already collected money for. What is the other request? Can you put together a list of all the agenda items and I'll post them on the website?

Rob"

Hardly the "obstructionist" response to meeting request Woody would have you believe. I'll let Jim speak for himself. But as I've said before, I would understand if he has concluded that it's not constructive or timeworthy to respond. If I do not respond to the next set of ad hominem attacks and politically motivated, half-truths that may appear on the forum after this, understand that I am merely declining to play politics with the pachyderm while not resigning as others have understandably done recently. I can be reached via maemo.org PM or board@hildonfoundation.org.

The community can rest assured that I will, as I always have over the course of several years of service, dutifully carry out the responsibilities that I have taken on, including looking out for the donations already made to Hildon Foundation until the next Treasurer comes along.

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Will the repos be onlilne for the next year???

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At the very least, another BoD member, preferrably Woody (since Jim is an unknown quantity as far as the Maemo Community goes), should be a signatory on the Hildon Foundation bank account, until BoD elections are done and all roles are filled.

At least that's my opinion, since having only one active member of the BoD with the power to access funds doesn't seem proper nor prudent.

Secondly, donations to the Hildon Foundation need to be sorted out-the Paypal account needs to be fixed, and the community needs to be informed about what the funds will be used for, where and how. There has been some discussion around community coding contests and the like, but some people may have donated money with the intention of it going towards "maemo infrastructure" and may be unhappy with it being diverted to other initiatives. Personally, I'm happy with my donations being used as the community sees fit-however at the moment, I'm unsure that the Hildon Foundation represents the community effectively. After elections, hopefully things will become more clear.

Another question for BoD: how are talks/contract negotiations going with Nokia? I'm assuming the contract would cover distribution of closed source pieces of maemo, use of the maemo trademark, domain name transfers, and other things of that nature. Is there anything beyond those things being discussed? What else does the community need or want from Nokia anyway?

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Just a warning to not derail this thread
/j

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Exactly. You two have hit the nail on the head. This is a fundraising thread, not a "wash your dirty laundry in public" one. I do not really care who is right; what makes a big difference to me is who is left*). Does it make sense to continue sending donations? Will we have a forum next year/month/week or are my 3 devices going to turn into 3 bricks?

*) Pardon the bad pun.

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It seems you can be at least sure there will be quite some elections, if nothing else... :D SCNR

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For now it doesn't make sense to send donations to HiFo paypal account (do they have any other?), since donation will not get claimed and gets returned to you. Up to you if you want to send donations to the account I provided a few posts up, I will use those to pay servers related to maemo, compensate for the expenses I already had, get hw we might want for maemo.org server but requests to HiFo were not processed, and transfer any excess to HiFo eventually unless the donor mentioned in purpose that s/he does want the donation to stay with techstaff.
I'll post a balance here shortly. For a first magnitude info the maemo.org related payments of last 6 months were still higher than the donations that came in. Currently my fixed expense to keep stuff alive is ~70EUR/month (no, this doesn't include any beer, hookers, pizza, DSL, or installments for my PC).
Unless sth completely unexpected happens, I can promise to you that we'll have a tmo forum in 6 months and most likely also in 12 months. Same applies for maemo extras-* repo and maemo.org infra in general, and as long as I can afford it (by own purse or donations) we'll also have those helpful servers that are not to be found under *.maemo.org URL

cheers
jOERG

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In my particular case, not expecting the need to make this decision, I did not explicitly state whether I wanted my donation to stay with techstaff or not.

If it matters: I'd rather have my donation stay with techstaff.

As for the switch, I don't know if it's there or not already. Just in case I will make another donation this week "only for techstaff".

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Rob,

respect for standing up to the pachyderm... (didn't expect anyone to pick up on that ¦-)
and thanks for remaining on the Board.
i don't think Woody means bad, he simply can't get through his mind / thick skin that there is something else then what he {sees, thinks, posts, does}
in politics, that's very useful, you know...
:-\

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Joerg,

Would it be possible to set up your PayPal account for recurring payments? I found the PayPal website an intricate maze when it comes to finding any information beyond the simplest operation, but if I understand it correctly, it is not possible to send regular payments without something called a "subscription" that the "merchant" has to set up. I would like to send a small amount regularly each month automagically rather than having to remember about it. I guess if more people express a similar wish then it might be worth your while.