Oh, _vi, you are like the Dr. Gregory House of TMO.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Paul Sleggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psleggs@gmail.com" target="_blank">psleggs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am autonominating myself for an N950
commission.<span> </span>I am
nominating myself because I deserve
one.<span> </span>There, I said it.<span> </span>I am not going to buff your
pylon with faux
whimsical bullcrap to project a defensive screen of nonchalance to
laminate the
true motivation behind my entry. <span> </span>You
are
offering free hardware.<span> </span>Not
just any
hardware, one of the most desirable pieces of pocket computing to
have been
manufactured in the past 5 years.<span>
</span>The
mailing list has been swamped with entries from ghosts who have
just heard
there are some free phones going.<span>
</span>They do
not deserve a community award.<span> </span>I
deserve
a community award and I have earned one.<span>
</span>To deny my nomination would be to undermine the very point
of the
community awards and to make a mockery of the long standing
tenants that are so
central and important to the ancient and noble community awards
tradition. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I deserve a CA on account of the sheer volume
of my useful
contribution to MO in the form of help, knowledge and to a lesser
extent, wiki
work.<span> </span>I base my submission
on this and the
fact that I do not qualify for any of the other categories.<span> </span>I would like an N950 please.<span> </span>Yes, the shiny one.<span> </span>Feel free to announce my
ascension to the
level of N950 owner before or after the submission deadline, I do
not
mind.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are dozens of such cases of my
unmitigated dedication
to the community’s success.<span> </span>One
of the
best metrics of this is MO karma.<span>
</span>As a
non-code contributing, non old-schooler, non ex-council member I
have an imperial
shit ton of karma, more so than any other TMO user of my type.<span> </span>I have almost twice as many
‘thanks’ as posts
on TMO. <span> </span>This is good
indication of the
quality of my input.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It seems so passé to list my contributions, as
to list them
is to tarnish the sheen of my ego.<span>
</span>However
I shall attempt to distil the essence of the magnitude of my
contribution to MO
with some trivial examples.<span> </span>I
have been
an active TMO member since the beginning of 2011 when I received
my first
N900.<span> </span>Since then I have
consistently
been solving problems for users whom are suffering from a lesser
Linux
endowment.<span> </span>Since this time
I have relentlessly
provided, scripts, hacks and bodges for fellow TMO users to
address the weird
niggles in ways that no other user can even conceive of.<span> </span>My very first ever post was a
script for
running with CRON for 'smart email checking WRT condition of wifi
module'.<span> </span>You remember the
person who orchestrated the
'N900 for davyp’ (javaME for n900 developer).<span>
</span>BANG, that was me.<span> </span>NEXT
PROBLEM
PLEASE.<span> </span>You remember when
some users
where discussing ways to enable the longpress of the camera focus
button while
the n900 was locked.<span> </span>The
best solution
they had come up with was dbus-scripts doing some pokey haxery.<span> </span>'chmod 444 /path/to
button/disable'<span> </span>BAM.<span>
</span>JOB DONE.<span> </span>Next
problem.<span> </span>You remember the
guy who could not access backup
menu because his keyboard slide detector was broken?<span> </span>I provided a 1-liner that
edited his
'rc-early' to check the camera slide instead of the keyboard.<span> </span>BOOM HEADSHOT.<span> </span>JUST BRING IT.<span> </span>Who trawled through the
gst-dsp lib code to
figure out how to reduce the JPG compression for better photos?
ME.<span> </span>GET SOME. (All hail
FMG for implementing
this, praise his might).<span> </span>When
a user
could not determine if it was his LCD that was defective, who sent
him their
spare on the single proviso he would pass it on the next user who
may need it
for trouble shooting.<span> </span>YEAH
BABY, TWAS
I.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This stuff is not coding.<span>
</span>This is not even particularly witty.<span>
</span>But it is solutions to problems that TMO users have faced.<span> </span>My time is spent helping
others use their
devices.<span> </span>They enjoy their
N900s because
I am here to facilitate this.<span> </span>That
is
community, that is dedication and that is the type of behaviour
that deserves
an award.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is not an award for coders who wrote an
egg timer in
QML, it is an award for contributors who have kept TMO alive.<span> </span>Even after most of the big
dick hitters have
left for greener pastures made of robots.<span>
</span>These awards are for the members who have remained.<span> </span>They have stood firm, as the
last bastions of
Maemo, defenders of mobile open source pocket sized computing.<span> </span>In the face of absolute
obliteration posed by
an army of i-clone green robots we have stood our ground and never
quit.<span> </span>Against the flakfire
of whatsapp drones crackling
overhead and mortars of redundancy raining down, taking out our
sharing plugins
one by one.<span> </span>Despite the
overwhelming quiet
from the bodies of our fallen comrades who’s accounts have grown
silent. <span> </span>We will fight
obsolescence on the landing grounds,
we will fight it in the app stores and on the streets.<span> </span>We will defend our tiny
notion…of what a
smart telephone is, I will never surrender!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>enthusiast, n. "One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person."<br>