[maemo-community] N9 device seeding activity

[From: robert bauer]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Timo Härkönen <timop.harkonen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> 26. huhtikuuta 2012 16.53 Iván Gálvez Junquera <ivgalvez at gmail.com>kirjoitti:
>
> I completely agree about coordinating with Council and the number of
>> devices as proposed by Rob and Cosimo.
>>
>
> I agree on the device amount for the competition but didn't see anyone
> proposing an amount for the seeding itself. So I'm proposing 80 to get that
> discussion going. That would make the total number of devices 100. I think
> the seeding should be done like proposed earlier by providing a wiki page
> where people willing to get one need to add their details including past,
> current and planned contributions to the community. So pretty similar thing
> that Quim & co. used with the meego developer device program. And then the
> council decides who gets a device.
>
> In any case I'd like to see the requirements for getting a device clearly
> documented (after there's a consensus for them) to the same wiki page. So
> I'd ask for Maemo.org user name with link to the profile, description of
> contributions with links to those and summary of future plans. So my main
> requirerement would be contributions that benefit the community. There's a
> lot of stuff that be contributed to the community and they should all have
> some weight. Contributions can be applications, other development, QA,
> helping people, communications (think about what people behind the weekly
> news are doing) or something else.
>
Basically agreed.  I'd like to see future plans given minimal weight - it's
hard to gauge promises, etc, and IMO these should be viewed as unexpected
rewards/thank yous for those who have served the community.  I think the
time period should be the last year or two so someone who left the
community can't claim a device based on service they did three years ago.
If we could do it (and I know it's not feasible), I'd use karma over the
last 1-2 years as a rough starting point (maybe drop tmo posts, but not tmo
thanks)  And by community contributions, we should clarify we mean the
maemo.org community (no disrespect to Mer/nemo/qt/meego/etc).  And I think
we should allow nomination of others instead of just self-nominations, and
community members to give +1s to the nominations of others on the wiki
page. (mindful to determine that people can't receive a second device if
they already have one)


>
> This might sound like self evident but when it comes to free gadgets the
> rules need to be very clear and the instance who has the final say clearly
> definded (the council). And I also agree that in no situation should one
> single person be able to make the call on who gets a device or not.
> Therefore I'd wait until the new council has been elected (no disrepect to
> Rob intended).
>
I agree we should let new council (or a committee they select) decide who
gets a device, but not wait on determining the criteria to be applied so we
can meet the deadline qgil has requested.

Rob
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