Community Awards

Purpose
Thanks to Nokia's '12 Device Program (see TMO thread), we have 25 devices for Community Awards (10 N950's and 15 N9's).

The purpose of these awards is to recognize people that, for months/years have contributed, and continuously contribute, to Maemo Community.

Candidates
Unlike other programs, target audience of Community Awards aren't only developers. Suitable candidates include (also) dedicated testers, helpers, hardware modders, contributing participants of brainstorms and so goes on. Usually, it's a mix of all presented above.

Please, bear in mind, that this is not a lottery and only people whose merits are well proven, have chances for receiving device.

Submissions
Any member of maemo.org can self-nominate to receive one device, from the Community Awards program. Accepting submissions will start at Monday, 28 May, 00:00 UTC, and will last for 3 weeks.

Only self-submissions are allowed, and they will be valid only if made via community mailing list. Submissions may contain rationale - short description of Your deeds for Community - but it's not required, as the Council will check history of candidate's contributions.

Submission must specify if someone is interested only in N950 or N9 (so, in case of not enough devices of preferred type, he/she will receive no prize), or will be satisfied by any type of prize.

People that already received N950s in any form before (dev programs, etc) can't submit for / receive another one, but they can submit for N9.

Please, include in the mail with your self-nomination your username at maemo.org.

Criteria
Council will choose winners in its discretion, in no more than a week time (so winners will be announced no more than 4 weeks after starting receiving submissions) - could be less.

Community Awards are granted for past deeds, so no future projects/promises, etc will be taken into account by Council.

Submissions
List of people submitting to program is updated at least once per week. Actual list include:


 * Kent Madarcos (kent_autistic), applies for N9.
 * Niel Nielsen (nieldk), applies for N950.
 * Kenneth Kasilag (Hurrian), applies for any device.
 * Timo Pelkonen (ossipena), applies for N9.
 * Paolo Iommarini (sakya), applies for N950 (will also accept N9).
 * Indri Puspita W (ibrakalifa), applies for N950.
 * Roman Moravcik (rmoravcik), applies for N9.
 * Jonni Rainisto (jonni), applies for N950 (would also accept N9).
 * Praveen Chand (praveenchand), applies for N950.
 * Pavol Rohár (pali), applies for N950.
 * Aniello Del Sorbo (anidel), applies for N9.
 * Ashish Chapagain (somedude), applies for N9.
 * Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh (MohammadAG), applies for N9.
 * Maurice Fakhry (myname24), applies for N950.
 * Andy Hagon (AndyNokia232), applies for N950.
 * Simón Pena Placer (Bulfaiter), applies for N9.
 * Christian Ratzenhofer (merlin1991), applies for N950.
 * Luke Jr (luke-jr), applies for N950 (would also accept N9).
 * Gregory Kovelman (drucula), applies for any device.
 * Daniele Maio (b0unc3), applies for N9.
 * Fred Lefévère-Laoide (fredoll), applies for N9.
 * Ilya Skriblovsky (Mitrandir), applies for N9.
 * Ivaylo Dimitrov (freemangordon), applies for N950.
 * Felipe Crochik (fcrochik), applies for N9.
 * Mikko Koskenranta (MiK546), applies for any device.
 * Tiago Lopes (trlopes1974), applies for any device.
 * Kathy Smith (RevdKathy), applies for any device.
 * Vlad Vasilyeu (vasvlad), applies for N9.
 * Jesús Carballo (jecargo22), applies for N9.
 * Ruediger Schiller, (chemist), applies for any device.
 * Sonv Dubey (Sourav.Dubey), applies for any device.
 * Daniel Persson (toxaris) applies for N950 (would also accept N9).
 * Holger Nahrstaedt (HolgerN), applies for any device.
 * zimon (zimon), applies for any device.
 * Koos Vriezen (koos) applies for any device.
 * Assaf Paz (damagedspline) applies for N9.
 * Michael Demetriou (qwazix) applies for N950 (would also accept N9).
 * Kimitake (Kimitake), applies for N9.
 * Tobias Merk (Dr.Heyde), applies for N950.
 * Akos Polster (pipacs), applies for N9.
 * Matan Ziv-Av (matan), applies for N950 (would also accept N9).
 * Misha Ketslah (ZogG), applies for N950.
 * Paul Sleggs (vi_) applies for N950.
 * Sifo (Sifo) applies for any device.
 * Karsten van Herwaarden (MrPingu), applies for N950 (would also accept N9).
 * Francesco Vollero (Fvollero), appliesfor any device.

Winners
Winners will be announced in scheduled time, and posted here.