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:eek: Dude! That is one monster case....looks nice though.

On the HTPC side, are you using a MCE remote of some sort?

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No remote yet-- I don't have an HTPC setup at all at the moment.

The size of the TJ06 is one of the things I love. This thing is not intended to be moved at all, and the airflow is phenomenal by design. And so much room to work with... :D

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Holy crap, I hit 8000 posts!!! :eek:

Time to shut up for a while...

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(Sorry, Texrat. When presented with a setup like that, I can't help myself.)

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Heh... I don't even mind the snarky thanks. :p

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Greetings everyone from seat 10D aboard American Airlines flight 1543 to San Jose, California!

I'm on my way to the Santa Clara Maemo Developer event and working on a last-second presentation I was asked to deliver on behalf of all of you. I thought I would see how much the in-flight wifi was and got a great surprise: they couldn't process my payment so gave it to me free! Almost makes up for the taxi charge to the airport.

I am profiling the history (briefly) of maemo.org, showcasing some apps and describing some details of the developer experience. If anyone has suggestions, post them here! I have about 3 hours or so flight time so if my battery holds out I'll keep checking back in.

Later!

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We're landing soon-- later all!

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Just a brief update from the Maemo Developer event--

- it wasn't so much as a development event as it was a developer engagement event. Which was fine... it just meant last second changes to a last minute presentation :eek:

- this was where commercial and open source interests begin to collide... or collude? Good thing Quim invited code177, the target of all things monetary! :D He had provocative points but they were met by encouraging responses. More on that later, probably by him first

- I was encouraged by the support I got for community outreach. So brace yourselves for more meetups! But first, I need to do some recon to gauge interest.

- epage and code177 were great to hang with. Many awesome ideas came out of this little get together. THANK YOU MAEMO!

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repeated from the community mailing list:

Greetings all!

Many thanks to the Maemo team for really stepping up in the Maemo Developer event this past week in Santa Clara California. Everyone with whom I spoke was really enthused at the opportunity to learn more, share ideas and realize they were being fully engaged by Nokia. This event was a true sign of positive progress for both the open source and commercial communities!

Some takeaways:

- Nokia understands the concerns expressed by individual contributors who want to find success in Ovi Store. No fine details to reveal at this time but be encouraged by the fact that they are listening! New member code177 expressed gratitude at the chance to get his needs in front of people willing to listen. He is also appreciated for volunteering to be the lightning rod here. ; )

- Nokia is receptive to the "gotchas" that have been hot topics in talk.maemo.org. Particularly, support for feedback, donationware and app testing functionality on the device. After some really stimulating discussion I corralled the ideas into what I think is an actionable plan to accomodate these wants and needs. More on that soon in Brainstorm and on my blog (so subscribe to the latter!).

- I was particularly relieved and excited to hear Ashley Walker's (Forum Nokia) support for local events in the US. Details need to be hashed out but I feel now that the push for this is no longer stalled. As with most things, it was simply a matter of navigating the Nokia matrix and connecting with the right facilitator! So I will begin a little recon work and report back when some plans are formed.

I commend Quim for having the foresight to get maemo.org into the mix. The contributions by code177 and epage (Dialcentral guy!) were invaluable.

In summary, I came away confident that open source and commercial interests in the Maemo ecosystem need not necessarily collide but can collude. I am beginning to see Nokia's longterm strategy in this space bear fruit now and offer solid promise going forward. Let's maintain the momentum, think positive and not let any roadblocks stand for long!

More info soon!

As always, your community council is your bridge to Nokia. Take advantage of us! ; )

Cheers!

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Hallelujah! My replacement N900 was waiting for me when I got home today (some may recall the one I received in Amsterdam suffered the infamous usb ejection crisis).

I was happy to see updated firmware on it, although I can do without the cute and cumbersome clock and date settings methods. Having been away from the device a while, I was starting to wonder if the sluggish performance complaints had some merit after all... but I'm happy to report this thing is flying!

So now I'm ready to get back to testing, device-oriented blogging, event presentations, etc.

In addition, I have decided to more finely focus on community outreach and engagement, and pull back from some other activities here and abroad. That should help my available energy and current attitude. ;)

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Yes, that ejection crisis was embarrassingly premature.

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Bwahahahahahah!!!!

Nice...

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if you make coffee and drink it before it's ready, is that called premature percolation?

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Yes.

Next question?

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Interesting. The last I heard (a long, long time ago, sorry) you had decided you couldn't buy an N900 because of the economic situation.

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And I didn't. I received a pre-production device at Amsterdam, and as I've noted several times in various areas, that one broke. Nokia was kind enough to replace it at no cost.

Our economic situation still sucks. Badly.

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And i've been hunting nuknuk down ever since, as he had two.... no luck yet tex :D

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I'm getting interesting responses from this LinkedIn question about Maemo: http://www.linkedin.com/answers/tech...27568-11119666

...especially the Microsoft solutions architect wanting an N900 as his next phone. ;)

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Well...

I was expecting something like today's Moblin+Maemo announcement but I had not really prepared myself for what that might mean to me personally. After all, my council term is coming due and I'd plan to run again to provide transition and bring some of my Maemo-oriented projects to conclusion.

Now, of course, the bulk of that work is pointless.

The good news is that MeeGo offers us an opportunity to leave some baggage behind and build something new with lessons learned. The bad news (besides the silly name IMO) is uncertainty. From a purely personal standpoint, that is: do I have any relevance in the MeeGo world?

I came into this community as a Nokia employee frustrated at the huge gap between the company and all of you. My number one goal was to build bridges. I didn't always succeed as i would have liked to and occasionally even worked against myself but I'd like to think my efforts provided some overall benefit.

With regards to MeeGo... do any of us carry over our legacies of leadership? In some cases it may be good to start from scratch, but it helps leaders and facilitators to have a clear path and decent support. That of course translates to community projects as well. What becomes of projects like Mer, for instance?

I am faced with far too many questions yet unanswered to know what *I* am to make of this. I'm sure the merger will benefit Nokia and Intel-- I just don't know what it will mean to many of the people.

Hopefully my post wedding jitters are for nothing...

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Activism and Greeter programs and many other activities you do will be very valuable in Meego - we need to put a human face on the currently very technical goals of Meego and I think you're very valuable for that.

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So far, MeeGo is another nerdvana mobile OS. It needs a human face for end users, and there is work like yours, Tex, is highly appreciated.

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Thanks for the reassurance Stskeeps and mrojas! I'm trying to be positive but there are just so many unknowns...

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Looking at the comparative resources table, I get the impression that Maemo has a lot to bring to this marriage in terms of community warmth. You can take credit for some of that (through things like the greeter programme).

If this is going to work, it's going to need community-focused leaders right from the get-go. I'm really glad you are there on the council to speak up for the community element before the hows and whys are decided.

Right now there are a lot of faintly hurting people, from council members who feel they weren't told, developers who wonder what they'll be working on in six months time to end-users wondering what the heck they just bought. A fair number of us will be feeling "Oh just sod it!" tonight and preparing to walk away from a community we thought we were part of that just mutated into something else. It's the strong bonds we already have that will keep people from doing that and hold us together.

Quit if you must, once you know what you are quitting, though some of us would rather you stayed into a second council term. But right now, we need to hold hands in this uncertain dark and stick together. ;)

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And teddy bears!

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Of course, Meego will need teddy bears. Does Moblin have any of those?

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That's not a bat'leth, it's a 770 hardcase! You'll only make him stronger!

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Today is NOT a good day to die.

/me hands Texrat a bottle of bloodwine and a bottle of Romulan ale to drown his anxieties.

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Hey! I just remembered I have an unopened bottle of rum!

:D

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Heh... someone just ordered a water bottle and coffee mug from my demo maemo.org store...

http://www.cafepress.com/cynicalsigns/7050511

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No, something altogether weirder.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BwHqTXeAQP...320/moblin.png

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Ack! Make it go away!!! :eek:

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Texrat, I appreciate what you have done for the community, but I believe that all of the work you have done is now undone by the move to Moblin and the death of Maemo 5.

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mmmm, nsure if this is a Dalek post-tuxing or a radio controled tux! lol

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Well, I'm trying to hope that's not the case.

One real regret is that the community outreach materials were starting to look really good, thanks in large part to input from the community. I was just about to start sending that stuff out to event organizers, too-- glad Quim stopped me...

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Have no regrets TexRat.

It can all be summed up by this: Maemo is open, Nokia is not.

I hope I can still be a part of this community - the N900 is a fantastic device to develop for and use. Unfortunately this move just makes the future of the N900 even more uncertain. OpenMoko was killed by bad business decisions, let's hope the N900 doesn't go the same way.

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On a lighter note: new avatar!

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oh god.... armageddon i say, armageddddddddd....ddddddddon!!... oh actually, it's kinda cool :)

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losing something in the tiny size used here... like the sparkle in the eyes...

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Lookin' good.

And motivating me to try battling with Inkscape again for my own avatar, darn you.