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#370
Originally Posted by P@t View Post
The way I interpret Gerbick is that this should not be enough to claim being a developper to ask for a Jolla C because the definition of developer can be very large. The approach used for N950 was ok but had some flaws too.

And to @zogg and others, to give along merits is a nice idea. But in practice, this is a nightmare to manage. Really. And one should be prepared to spend a lot of times answering people why they did not receive their item while they are such a great person with some many great products/blogs/ or whatever. Because merits are difficult to scale from 0 to 10.
The way Jolla did it is just simple enough to let (mainly) one person manage the whole thing in a relative short period of time. The rules were pretty clear: you are on time or not.

Of course, this is not perfect. And there are complains about the fact that you should be connected, informed, and be quick. But there are no perfect systems and at least, we have a community program now
I was involved in N950 community program and participating in blackberry10 developer program.
In both cases I created at least 1 app for platform in order to get the community device.
I do not see how hard is it to manage if you can get the poll for several contributors on TJC, after all it's community program and community can decide the people who should get it.
As for devs, you can always ask them to create apps for reward(place in order, not even free device). It can be done in multiple categories (newbiews, games and etc).
It was done by few people here on TMO btw, and as it's hard - if few community members and council can do it - I do not see any reason the company that has more resources than few members with their only free time.

I think JHolla decided just to sell that way, as they do not want to take too much responsibility on that one and they used "elitism" hype of "I was one of the limited to get my hands to device". Same as OnePlus One used invites. Good marketing strategy.
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