Well, I'm flattered. I stumbled upon iTT almost 3 yrs ago in my quest for a linux based handheld with wifi. My best bet up til that point was an iPAQ with linux on it - - *shiver*. Til then the only contribution I made was randomly helping newbies when I was able. Oh. And I convinced someone to compile Dopewars.

While I could probably stay away from the beer halls long enough to participate coherently (albeit with a strong headache day 2 onward), I'm completely unable to. (Cost, time away from work, etc.)

HOWEVER. I hate you guys. I really hate you guys. I have 3 other browser tabs open and am comparing Canadian prices for the N810. So far the lowest price from a reputable site is $387.

Stay tuned.

P.S. I hate you guys.

Oh, and Geneven? QEMM was awesome.

On a separate note. (I finally read every post in this thread...) If there are people from North America who can't make it, why not (get ready, this is spectacular - - ) - - videoconference!

I'd love to see some of the presentations/talks as they happen (if they could be streamed) and it'd be great to hear guys like Penguinbait talk from home Michigan (if he could be videoconferenced).

If all that is too technologically unfeasible, why not pre-recorded talks or something?

I got the e-mail for this yesterday and I think it's an amazing idea, however, I think I would like to pass my chance on to someone else who has been active lately. I haven't been active enough, I feel, to deserve this due to my lack of a tablet. I sold my N800 thinking that my developer device N810 would come through.

So as much as I want to go, I think it's just fair for it to go to someone that's been a lot more active here as of late and deserves it more.

But zerojay, this is your chance to grab someone from Nokia by the lapels and say, "gimme my N810, dagnabit!"

No, "only" 6,606 km (3,567 miles) for me. However, as the least expensive flights appear to originate with Northwest Airlines, there's a good chance I'll be heading west to Detroit before making any progress east.

I've added some comments to the wiki page:

https://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Maemo_Su...008_recordings

Jamie, if you'd like to collaborate, that might be cool... Or, if you just want to be the one that does it, that would be fine too. Add comments to the wiki.

Tim

Seconded. Zerojay--preferably wearing his Pac-Man hat--chasing Nokia employees while screaming for a working N810 developer discount code would be extremely memorable.

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I love you guys.

Before I send my information off to the travel agency, is there any reason a nobody like me should be considering OSiM? The sessions look interesting, sure, but it's already costing Maemo a disturbingly large amount of money to bring me to the summit, and as I've not done any development for the tablets, sending me to OSiM doesn't sound like a good investment. I'm simply asking in case we're all to try to make it to OSiM in order to meet up and discuss, work on, what-have-you Maemo/maemo.org things as a build up to the summit proper.