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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Let me recap on something important here. This specific step in the N900 device program is aimed at strong maemo.org contributors, mainly OSS developers but also many non-developers involved in other areas.

Free software development and community involvement should be fun and worth in itself. If it's not then don't do it. It's voluntary work after all and the choice is yours.

If someone needs to wait for a device program to evaluate whether the community effort is rewarding or not, then there is something wrong here.

The N900 through Forum Nokia has other improvements. Indeed, the FN store can't deliver to Russia, but basically the rest of the World is supported. Remember how painful this was in previous occasions. I'm fine trying to find solutions for the Russian citizens in that list.

I'm also quite amazed about the tone in some comments about the devices loaned to Summit participants. These are pre-production devices and 300 people got the priviledge to have them without signing any NDA before any regular customer, just for attending a registration free event! Core maemo.org contributors and developers presenting a session were given the chance to be there with travel and accommodation sponsored.

All this costs money. If you think it was easy to pull this budget in these times for a maemo.og actiity like this, then perhaps you need to think more.

Anyway, we keep learning and hopefully we will be more efficient next time.
Personally I was just trying to say, it may have been a better Idea to push the free devices (pre-production) to the developers, and hand out coupons to the summit attendees.

Obviously I do not understand what is involved in pre-release devices being distributed, but you were able to do it in some manner at the summit. Optimally we want as many developers with devices in hands before sales start.

I am sure there was a good reason for the way you did things, my guess is marketing? From way out here it seems rather goofy?

Now there are several people eligible who seem to be voicing they cannot afford a device, although some I have seen already got a loaner.

Personally this device program will not get me a device any quicker. Although I signed up for the developer program, I will not be using that until I see what happens in the carrier market. I can't see spending $450 with a developer discount, if I can get one from T-mobile for $200 with a contract extension, or another carrier.

In the past this has not been an issue, as there were no real incentives to wait, because nobody was subsidizing the internet tablet's.

You some what alluded to it also, I would assume that a karma over 200 does not mean you get one, it means your eligible to get one. correct?
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