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Forum: Community 2011-09-19, 15:53
Replies: 152
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Posted By RevdKathy
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

Gary's family have sorted details of the funeral. It will be on Thursday of this week, the 22nd, at 10:30 at Oldham Crematorium. If there is anyone near enough to represent us, that would be great....
Forum: Community 2011-09-18, 15:36
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By monoceros
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

Randall Arnold write about Gary: A Community Heart.

Link: http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/gary-birkett-a-community-heart/
Forum: Community 2011-09-16, 01:10
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By Estel
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

I don't know if it's appropriate proposition, but maybe CSSU v17.0 could be dedicated for Gary?
Forum: Community 2011-09-15, 16:27
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By Stskeeps
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

From Kathy on mailing list:
Forum: Community 2011-09-15, 15:58
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By Stskeeps
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

Something timsamoff just mentioned on twitter:

http://vimeo.com/8420833 - shows lcuk at his best
Forum: Community 2011-09-15, 15:57
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By timsamoff
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

One of my fondest memories of Gary (although I have plenty) was hanging out with him one night in Amsterdam. He had already been to a (ahem) "coffee shop," and I was three sheets to the wind...
Forum: Community 2011-09-15, 15:43
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By Stskeeps
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

36. Though - it doesn't matter how he died.

We've lost someone, a close friend and the family have lost a fiance and a father - reasons why it happened doesn't change anything about the fact....
Forum: Community 2011-09-14, 18:12
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By X-Fade
Re: Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

I remember Gary as a very cheerful energetic person, no effort was too much for him. He was a true dreamer, but also created some marvelous things.

He was a very active person in the community and...
Forum: Community 2011-09-14, 17:09
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By RevdKathy
Re: Gary Birkett RIP

Gary in a pub somewhere in the West Midlands, when the beard was new:
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Forum: Community 2011-09-14, 16:57
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By Texrat
Re: Gary Birkett RIP

Gary when he and I were watching a soccer game in Dublin last year (MeeGo Conference):

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http://share.ovi.com/media/Texrat.MeeGoConfere/Texrat.10045

The smile says it all.
Forum: Community 2011-09-14, 16:15
Replies: 152
Views: 77,531
Posted By RevdKathy
Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) RIP

Hi all,

It is with sadness that I have to report that I heard from Gary's wife today that he died last night. I don't have much by way of details.

Gary was important to me in my connections to...
Forum: Community 2011-06-09, 16:41
Replies: 111
Views: 26,941
Posted By Stskeeps
Cool Stskeeps says bye! o/

Hi guys,

Think it's enough by now. And this isn't going to have one of those drama comebacks. I've been on here since a long time, helping out with your devices, problems - and it's stopped being...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-01-06, 15:40
Replies: 5,430
Views: 1,620,032
Posted By Jaffa
Lightbulb Re: Ask the Council!

That's a question for Mohammad; however, at the moment, I don't believe there's a kernel installed. You can see the packages in their gitorious home: http://gitorious.org/community-ssu - although I'm...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2011-01-05, 15:21
Replies: 5,430
Views: 1,620,032
Posted By CrashandDie
Re: Ask the Council!

Stenny,

What exactly are you so mad about? The fact that... the community is building a community SSU? Are you offended we didn't ask you personally for help?

You do realise that this is...
Forum: Applications 2010-12-31, 09:21
Replies: 398
Views: 150,628
Posted By Jaffa
Re: Hermes Thread: questions, suggestions regarding Facebook, Twitter, etc. contact synchronization

Not seen that myself, no. Could you raise a bug (https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Hermes) with explicit instructions on how to reproduce.

As an example, the following are bad...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-12-13, 16:51
Replies: 395
Views: 125,422
Posted By Texrat
Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support

Shortage of steam for original thread motivator.
Forum: Community 2010-12-12, 06:00
Replies: 182
Views: 76,072
Posted By tso
Re: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2

Iirc, one nokia engineer claimed the dmse is still closed because they are embarrassed about its quality...
Forum: Community 2010-12-09, 17:31
Replies: 182
Views: 76,072
Posted By MohammadAG
Re: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2

Indeed, something like this should be easy to add to the stock media player:
http://i56.tinypic.com/dh67n5.jpg

As Jaffa said, any contributions are welcome, gitorious page is again, here:...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-12-09, 16:32
Replies: 395
Views: 125,422
Posted By benny1967
Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support

Why did you take it for granted he was a Nokia developer?
Forum: Community 2010-12-08, 23:41
Replies: 182
Views: 76,072
Posted By qgil
Re: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2

Let me be more clear: if a Qt based popular and established community project like Amarok is planning/working on going mobile (they are) then a possibility for developers willing to have a great free...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-12-08, 23:20
Replies: 395
Views: 125,422
Posted By jakiman
Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support

Heck. Even if I was Nokia, I would discourage writing apps just for N900. There is too little money in the N900 market. So even if N900 does support Qt, commercial apps will not come to N900 imo.
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-12-08, 21:00
Replies: 395
Views: 125,422
Posted By benny1967
Re: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support

i payed for a phone. i got a phone. nothing changed.
nobody payed for any kind of service.
Forum: Community 2010-12-08, 02:26
Replies: 182
Views: 76,072
Posted By MohammadAG
Re: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2

The way I see it, the best thing right now would be a rewrite of the stock apps, it takes time, but it's the only way go FOSS here :/

Here's a start (in Qt), hopefully, this project won't die,...
Forum: Community 2010-12-07, 13:04
Replies: 182
Views: 76,072
Posted By lardman
Re: [Council] State of Maemo, Q32010.2

Going back to the comment about the Media Player and Calendar. Both could certainly be replaced, but the question is really whether it's worth investing the time and effort to do this as they will...
Forum: Applications 2010-12-06, 19:03
Replies: 939
Views: 305,341
Posted By MohammadAG
Re: Ovi Store - Instinctiv

You know, I'm not a big fan of Closed source, but seriously, Nokia is being ******ed.
Showing two faces at once to what is to date, the best community I've been in; and mind you, the only one I've...
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