[maemo-community] N9 device seeding activity

[From: robert bauer]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Timo Härkönen <timop.harkonen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> 20. huhtikuuta 2012 2.14 robert bauer <nybauer at gmail.com> kirjoitti:
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> Let's say we could have a nice amount of N9s (*) for a maemo.orgcentered device seeding activity.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> We'll use them at least for this year's Coding Competition.  I hope you
>> remember this activity.  We already started thinking about including Qt in
>> the competition this year.  Please review the last few pages of this
>> thread <http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=71561>
>>
>>
> I'm just left pondering what this device seeding program has to do with
> the competition? Especially if the intention is to get the devices in the
> hands of developers before the summer vacation period?
>
> and for the record I'm not going to apply for a device since I already got
> those from elsewhere. But I am interested in seeing them landing in cabable
> hands.
>
> Also I'd explicitly add open source development as a requirement for
> getting one.
>
>
Last year, N9s were given out as prizes to the winning app developers.
There was some uncertainty where we would source those this year and so now
we have a source.  I don't know that there is anything special about when
the devices are given out, but yes the summer is a prime period for
activity.  It's been noted that people don't always use the device for the
community as promised and so the competition has the advantage that it
really does push apps.  Also, I wonder if there are more devices available
than we need for the competition so we can simply reserve some devices for
the competition.

I agree with open source requirement, actually I had assumed it would be
one of council's criteria for selecting anyway.

Rob
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