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I will try to get answers for you today, specially about the guarantee.

The DDP team has to go to the queue of N900 deliveries like anybody else. The sales delay affected them indirectly. I couldn't especulate on dates and neither can they.

This DDP has got some problems and surely next time we will approach it differently. But you also need to look it within its context:

- Most remarkable community developers active during the Fremantle timeline got a loaned device well before the sales start. This had been the complaint number 1 in previous programs.

- Many of the active community contributors got a loaneddevice in the Summit.

- We are still being generous loaning devices in Maemo developer events.

- More developers will get a loaned device as soon as I get them for distribution http://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_Developer_Device_Queue

- We are still including non-developers in this program, which is an exception in Nokia and maybe somewhere else.

There is time to make a balance and an exercise of lessons learned for the next program, but probably the thing could be as simple as

- Help community developers getting their hands dirty with the Harmattan pre-releases.

- Help promising community developers joining Maemo developer events.

- Help champion community contributors joining Maemo events.

- Organize a contest to give additional chances to those with some merits to contribute.

- Get interesting deals cutting down entry costs for anybody loving Maemo and having difficulties paying the full prie of a device.

- Maybe something like a maemo.org voucher for contributors with +nnn karma can be done.

And leave Forum Nokia for Forum Nokia users. It will be your choice to join their programs or not.

Last edited by qgil; 2009-11-24 at 05:23.
 

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