Thread: Maemo Weekly News: a proposal
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2009-11-22 , 09:37
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#7
Since I'd like to get in before this thread turns into yet another Something vs. Something Else thread, I'd like to apply for a contributor position, please.

maemo.org username: qwerty12
Position wanted: Contributor
Channels I follow: Talk, maemo-developers, #maemo, and Planet
Short bio:
Hiya,

I've been on Talk since 2007 and #maemo since "Mar 12 15:49:53 2008 (1 year, 36 weeks, 2 days, 17:35:17 ago)". Ever since I bought my N800 after seeing things like aircrack-ng, penguinbait's KDE, Canola, etc., I can't help but feel Maemo (and its community) are awesome.
I was once a staunch Nokia-hater (feel free to find some of my posts on the Sony Ericsson se-nse forum) but Maemo changed all that. And that I'm incredibly glad of.

I also have an affinity with the platform, as it is the platform on which I learnt [dodgy] C and GTK. Which has enabled me to port such things as Transmission, gworldclock, etc.; and even write simple apps and utilities such as: rootsh, Custom Operator Home Widget, and Petrovich.
Links I would've posted:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=384320 - Heavily biased, I know, but it is a prime example of the community getting together and implementing something Nokia have left out. The amount of votes on that bug mentioned in that thread shows the demand for the feature requested.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=385638&postcount=9 - Still some issues, but the app works brilliantly and I was IRCing from my N810 using the N900 as a Bluetooth keyboard, thanks to VDVsx.
 

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