Leaving Nokia & thank you very much for everyting
 

Dear Maemo community,

I will leave Nokia in a couple of weeks. With this, I will also leave my official and unofficial responsibilities in maemo.org. The main reason is that I'm getting a new job in a new area (for me) that will require plenty of learning and extra time: the Wikimedia community. More details here:

Moving up in the freedom stack
http://flors.wordpress.com/2012/08/2...freedom-stack/

I will connect the council with the right people in charge of the maemo.org hosting and the distribution of devices. As far as I know these are the only areas where Nokia and myself have still some items open.

I also want to advance here my Big Thank You to this community. I have learned a lot with you and I have enjoyed the fun in the good times, and also in the other ones. When I joined Nokia my goal was to convert the official maemo.org site in an authentic community made of passionate contributors. We've got our ups and downs but I believe the core mission has been accomplished.

My nokia.com address will still work during a couple of weeks. I'm subscribing to this thread and you can use it to reach me out even after that. In any case it's easy to find me.

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Qgil thanks for all your help over the past few years at this site [even though unofficially you won't be around I'm sure the pull of this community will always bring you back]...

Unfortunately, s*** has happened and we lose yet another valuable member of the community...

However, we stay strong and this community will not go off easily...

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Thank you and hope you staying around to the end of the end of Tmo(as a real user ;)).

Let's hope you have a few great inside stories to tell after you left. Love to take a beer and read a great nokia inside story :D

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Congratulations for your new job. You deserved to work in a company where openness and freedom is a must instead of a curse.

I really hope we will see you here, now as part of the community and a very valuable contributor.

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Thx you sir, and goodluck with your new adventure, gbu

im newbie here, but i know who you are, :)

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I actually don't know you since I am a newbie, but I bet you have done great things and changed the way everything worked here :) So thank you for everything you have done and congratulations for your new job, we hope you enjoy it to the max :) Bye :)

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Big thanks Quim for all you did for this community. It's a big loss for us, but no doubt an inevitable outcome after June incident.

Hopefully fun times ahead for you in the new job - it is at least a great and important place to be for fans of free information.

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Quim thank-you for the *huge amount* you've done over the years.
I hope the new community entity currently being built, can somehow work with Wikimedia in a mutually beneficial manner in the future!
More importantly I wish you absolute happiness & fulfilment in life!

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thank you for your time and work and I hope that you will stay with mameo as a regular user :)

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thanks


I guess that video is last quim's public talk as qt/nokia spoke person :

http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/X11/kde-a...-_Quim_Gil.m4v

I am wondering if we'll get some nokia news now

else let's wait for the digia/jolla erra ...

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Thank you for every effort that you give for us and good luck on your new job.You're still supporting open sourced things with joining Wiki foundation , don't forget that :)

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Fare thee well friend and good luck in your future endevours.

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Good luck for your next career, Quim. We always welcome you back to the Maemo/MeeGo community! :D

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Good luck!
And thank you for all your work on Maemo.

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Thank you Quim for all your effort on Maemo.

Although you can just hang on from time to time on TMO even if you have a different job.... :)

Good luck with your next career!

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Good luck & Thanks.....

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Good luck with your future work! :)

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Good luck sad to see you go!

(Nab a N950 on your way out will ya?)

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It's always sad to see someone from Maemo.org go, especially those that have stuck with it through thick and thin to make it what it is today.

However, you have done way, way, way more for the community than a lot of people on here (and I dare say you've done more for the community in general than anyone on here), with impact of those contributions echoing forever in the community.

Wish you luck on your future open-source endeavors, and I hope you'll stick around in the OSS community ;)

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Best of luck, and thanks for everything you have done for the community. I am sure we are all in-debted to you in one way or another. You will be missed

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That's the whole point of moving "up in the freedom stack". :)

Thank you for all the comments!

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What phone will you be using after leaving nokia and joining the freedom stack?

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Thank you for everything... I'll never forget the first morning of the Meego Conference in 2011, when you stood there and told me about phone gap and about the suppose existence of the N9.

I saw a passion in your eyes that I rarely see in others.

Thank you for all of your contributions to the maemo community. Nokia, and the Qt project.

Good Luck in your future endeavors and we all appreciate what you have done for us :)

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I haven't heard any rumors about a Wikipedia phone, so I'll keep my N9 for now.

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Thank you for your great work at Nokia and I wish you good luck and fun with your future job!

You wrote history as the brave person from the open source community who entered a big company to successfully make them a true part of the community. Too bad that the circumstances don't allow Nokia to pursuit this path anymore.
It was a great time with Maemo/MeeGo. I still remember GUADEC 2005 where it all started. ;)

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+1!

As a matter of fact, the moment where it all started for me was accidentally captured and published: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcrozat/17378458/

PS: about writing history, there were many that tried that mission. We almost made it. We all learned a lot, and I'm sure that we provided good lessons to others that are now at the top of the ranks. This community had its key role in the writing as well.

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The talent that Nokia has lost is nothing short of amazing. But to lose a public facing voice of their opensource strategies, that's huge.

We've not usually seen eye to eye, but the fact we could discuss publicly about what a fan like myself and a Nokia employee like yourself thought really made me feel like I was part of a bigger something. That's what kept me around. The fact that my words, thoughts, ideas and concerns might be seen and addressed by a representative of that company is rather empowering.

Quim, good luck on all of your endeavors going forward.

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Thank you Quim. Too bad it went this way, but maybe your future will be brighter now. Maemo really hit the spot for me and I really loved the community we once had. Still using the N900 you guys gave me and I probably will until it dies. Still hate the terrible battery life and the fact it's sometimes impossible to answer a freaking phone call, but there hasn't been anything I could replace the N900 with.

But anyways, good luck.

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Off-topic, about N900's optimizations.

My opinion, N900 can be a lot better if you apply some optimizations over the stock Maemo 5 : kernel power v50 (my N900 battery lasts 4-5 days, GSM, Bluetooth/WiFi/GPS off), over-clocking (with SmartReflex On & 850 MHz), Swappolube (or other config optimizations), etc. It is not as fast and smooth as N9, but I have never had any problem to answer a phone call.

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Thank you Quim Gil for helping create the Maemo.org community, defend FOSS inside Nokia and be in contact with us here, by email, conferences, etc. You and the Maemo/MeeGo community are reasons that make Maemo, MeeGo Harmattan, Nokia N8x0, N900, N9, N950 so better than other competitors. You and the community that allow us to do impossible things with our great pocket Linux machines.

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Gràcies per la teva dedicació!

Thank you for all your dedication!

Regards

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Que vagi bé tot!

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Quim,

thank you for making this site and the whole Maemo world happen!
tomorrow is a mystery, but i guess the moment came where "all mystery was gone" :eek:

good luck with your new job!

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fyi I'm not a Nokia employee anymore and my former nokia.com email address has been deleted.

I was thinking of writing a blog post about the whole thing before joining the Wikimedia Foundation but the incredible weather is not really helping... ;)

I also wonder what people is interested in reading at this point. Anyway, hopefully I'll post something before the end of the month.

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Hi, welcome back as a true member! I'm intressting reading everything related to mobiles, data or information. Also a still want some real or made secrets from you time at Nokia.

You could also write something nice about jolla. They need all the words they can get. I'm sure you have some great content to share!

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Hey, Quim, write it! Sharing your experience will be interesting not only to our community but to the whole mobile industry.

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A line or two for Jolla and Firefox OS, indeed.

I wish I could write a post interesting for the whole mobile industry. There is an excess of posts already. I don't envy those having to write something like a weekly column.

Secrets are secrets.

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Why didn't you join Jolla by the way?

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I was looking for options allowing me to stay in San Francisco Bay Area.

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Quim, you should run for a Hildon Foundation board seat. ;)