Community Council is pleased to announce start of Community Awards program!



Community Awards (short. CA) are meant to be way of recognizing people, that, for months/years contributed - and continuously contribute - to Maemo Community. Unlike other programs, target audience of CA aren't only developers - suitable candidates include (also) dedicated testers, helpers, hardware modders, contributing participants of brainstorms and so goes on. Usually, it's a mix of all presented above.

From all submissions, Council will choose 25 winners, that will receive prize, from pool of 10 N950's and 15 N9's.

Rules for submissions are, as follows:

1. Receiving submissions will start at Monday, 28 May, 00:00 UTC. It will last for 3 weeks.

2. *Only* self-submissions are allowed, via community mailing list. Submissions may contain rationale - a short description about Your deeds for Community, but it's not required. Contributions of anyone submitting will be analyzed by Council, nevertheless.

3. Submission must contain info, if candidate is interested *only* in one particular type of prize (N950 or N9 - so, in case of not enough devices of preferred type, no prize), or if is going to be satisfied by any. also, submissions *must* contain link to TMO profile of candidate (or information about not being registered on TMO).

4. Community Awards are granted for past deeds, so no future projects/promises are considered by Council.

5. Someone, who received N950's in any form before (dev programs, etc) can't submit for/receive another one, but *can* submit for N9.

6. Winners will be chosen by Council in it's discretion, in no more than a week time (so, winners will be announced no more than four weeks after start of program).
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Community Council would like to say huge "Thank You" to every dedicated Maemo contributor!

Estel, the Wiki page is already in place.

@Estel
May I know what your criteria for judging will be? I won't be applying for any of those devices, I'm not worthy. hehe I just want to know how you will choose the recipients, especially since the decision lies in your hands.

(Was this discussed in a meeting? Can you please provide the link in your first post. Thanks!)

There are many people in the maemo community, myself included, who are not subscribed to the mailing lists so if there is someone you feel deserves the community award please encourage them to register and apply. There is an online form to register for the mailing list at the link in the OP (which is https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/list...aemo-community). The community has benefited from many people who have worked selflessly for our benefit without asking for any reward. These people will probably be very shy on putting themselves forward. Personally, I know several people who have donated coding time, money, and other gifts to the community projects and asked to be anonymous. It's unfortunate we are not able to put the case forward on their behalf, so please if you know someone like this do encourage them to reach out for this opportunity

Oh you're much too modest Vetsin

@Vetsin
Council will "segregate" candidates via their positive impact on maemo.org Community (as whole), and first 25 people will receive prizes. In any case, decision will be made via consensus, via internal discussions inside Council.

Community Awards is quite special, due to subjectivity of decisions-making, yet, people deserving device ale, generally, well known amongst Community members.
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As for details, it was discussed on maemo-community@maemo.org mailing list - in fact, even before new council was elected. I encourage You to read mailing list archive - surprisingly, there wasn't any single controversy about deciding process, so I hope announcing it on TMO won't create them - thus, won't validate major concern about TMO being "flamewars incubator"

@kojacker
I also strongly encourage everyone to talk with ones You respect and think are deserving CA. Council decided, that nominations by 3rd party are going to bring more troubles and bad blood, than clean and transparent self-nominations.

/Estel

What a great community,

sadly im not a developer, goodluck to all of you guys, long live maemo,

The community awards are open to everyone ibrakalifa, not just developers

Since I wasn't elected to the council, might as well apply

OMG, really? Tell me how to participate, please,

you all are amaziiiiing,

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