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Are python desktop widgets eligible for submission?

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Hi briggers, sure :) (I'm assuming you'll be targeting the n900 as you're interested in desktop widgets). Although the majority of entries in the past have been C++ based, we're had quite a few using Python including a few past prize winners too :)

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Hi,

I ' ve added a second apps for coding competition. If i understand well the rule it s possible, if note i ll remove one :)

So i ve added KhtNotes : a note taking apps with ownCloud sync.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...9&goto=newpost

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I have added modRana & Mieru to the updates category.
Rough progress so far:

modRana

• CLI interface (search, static map URLs, etc.)
• automatic rerouting support
• more efficient & robust track logging - in progress

Mieru

• together with Tempura-san
  • code cleanup
  • improved paging feedback
  • manga mode
  • localization support
  • German (by Tempura), Czech (by me) and Russian (by ZoG) translations
• updated packages for Fremantle & Harmattan - in progress

Also, hope this is not too much off-topic, might interest some competition entrants though: :)

<thread hijack>
Openmobility together with Nokia Czech Republic is holding an international summer competition for new Qt & QML application for Harmattan called Openmobility Be Qt Summer Contest . According to the organizers, it is possible to enter both competitions with the same application:
Fro more information, see the TMO thread or competition announcement[en].
</thread hijack>

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Good to see your progress coming along :)

That's good news too, though I really wish they had arranged their competition for a different time. A little before or after this competition would have been perfect, or indeed why not a winter competition? If we'd have had some advanced notice perhaps we could have integrated both competitions and complimented each other a little better, but oh well.. maybe next time :rolleyes:

I was wondering, are the organisers of the Openmobility competition members of maemo.org? Seems a little strange that they would arrange their competition for pretty much the same time period as we hold ours. I don't mean that as a criticism of them, they need to do what is right for them, but I think the wider Maemo community missed a better opportunity if things had been organised a little differently.

Also I feel we're a much larger competition and it shouldn't affect us too much, but then I notice things like some N9 blogs posting the Openmobility competition announcement but not our own. Maybe I just don't want out coding competition to have a competition of it's own :p :o Maybe next year we'll have a summer competition for coding competitions :D

Anyways best wishes to the Openmobility team, anything that rewards developers is all good :)

Edit: by the way I'm just wondering, cos I also highlighted the Openmobility competition on this thread when it was announced. Have they announced our competition on the Openmobility site/forum? It would be good if we supported each other efforts.

Edit2: I'm still waaay behind on answering pm's :o

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is there a time limit to submit apps? I'm late to the contest but would like to participate anyway!

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Good, we want you in the competition too munozferna!:D Don't worry you have plenty of time - the timeline's on the wiki so there's just under 7 weeks left.

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It is actually a continuation of a local "Be Qt" competition that ran before the Openmobility 2012 conference on the 21 of April in Prague. After the winners were announced at the end of the conference, there was already some talk about doing another round.

Other than that, I think both competitions are quite different (voting vs decision by jury, only new applications in Qt/QML for Harmattan vs much broader possibilities, etc.) anyway. :)

I think their are, but not very active + more interested in Harmattan than Fremantle. Thats why I'm basically doing a liaison in this case.


Thanks! ( I'm actually also a member of the Openmobility NCO, just not part of the team that is organizing the competition. :) )

Good point, I'll see what can be done (most likely at least a short article about the competition :) ).

We actually don't have a forum and use a jabber MUC for most of the communication. The MUC is on conf@openmobility.cz and everybody is welcome to drop by. :)

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@kojacker

man you are awesome

+1 :)

./sifo

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New donation by anonymous.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_Codi...ity_Prize_Fund

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Hello guys,

what about to add a "platform" column on the partecipant's table ?
So we can track if an app is only for harmattan or for maemo or both or others, what do you think?

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I like that idea.

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haha - it's so not true, but thanks sifo :D

Thanks anonymous!

By the way, if anyone has become anonymous because they forgot to add their username to a donation, just pm me or zehjotkah (or leave a note here) and we'll update the wiki so you get the credit you deserve :cool:

That is a great idea b0unc3, gosh I wish I'd thought of that before. Now I'll have to edit each row to add the new column in .. bah! :)

I'll do it as soon as I grab some time. In work I've now moved seats to beside my manager, so I'm possibly not posting as often as I used to :p

Also @ all.. I'm still behind on pm's :p Sourav.dubey I haven't forgotten you and your beginners question :)

That reminds me, can some of you Qt gurus advise - for N900 development the Maemo toolchain isn't included installed automagically with the latest Qt SDK releases, isn't that right? Is it just a matter of installing it through additional components? Annoyingly I don't have my laptop with me to check it out.

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Yes... Help\Start Updater on Qt Creator menu, "package manager" on dialog and under "Development Tools" you will find "Maemo Toolchain"

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I've already done it, while adding my entry ;)

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I'm not sure if this has yet to be mentioned within this forum but I am interested in the legal parameters surrounding the N950's being offered as prizes.

Prior N950's are bound by a contract that delegates ownership to Nokia (highlights include eventual return of item back to Nokia).

I am fully aware that Nokia doesn't actually care for or intend to have these phones returned to the company by the winners - at least, I hope that they haven't lost quite that much of their character. Regardless, I am interested in the fine print.

If the N950's are to be given with full ownership rights then I may enter the competition with some security related application. If I find that I do not have time for such an endeavor, I may shamelessly shove money into the hands of the winners until they hand over the merchandise.

Yours truly,

Abe

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Any other way to download it, QT maintain gives me 5-10kb of speed. Any way to download it using download managers which provides resumable downloads.

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what happens if someone win 1st and 2nd place in the same category or wins in two categories? They will get two phones?

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It's been a while without an update, apologies for the delay :)

First to start with some possible bad news, to get it out of the way first :( Don't worry, it's not too bad :p You haven't heard much about the competition website so far as the developer has been tricky to get hold of. zehjotkah has been trying his best emailing and trying to bump into him at c-base without much luck. About a month ago we got a link with the beginning of the 2012 competition site so I thought maybe the developer was on holidays. However i noticed last week the link is now gone again and zehjotkah still no reply from the developer. So I'm losing patience in it to be honest :o

Still, there's always a solution and the most basic one is we simply add a column to the wiki with a path to where the application can be downloaded from. Folks can email me with all the details they need to enter and for me to set up the category threads here on maemo.org. And really, thats basically the function of the competition website covered anyway. It would be nice to have, but not essential - we'll keep trucking on :)

Now, if anyone would like to volunteer to make a competition website and has some hosting for it we'd still be all ears :)

Time for some better news :D Would you believe we now have 5 applications listed against the Location & Navigation category? :) A big thanks to fcrochik, adityamhatre, munozferna, emyei, and noidea but we still need more! but it's looking much more healthier than the last time (was 2) :)

I think we still need a safety net here, in case we don't have 6 valid enteries when the competition closes, so I'd like you all to think about a prize rule where unallocated prizes can be fairly distributed to other categories. Cos sometimes my head hurts when I think about it :confused:

Finally some scarey news... only 1 month left!!!!!!! :D

If you have any worries about packaging applications, something you're stuck on, or anything else that may be holding you back from completing your application then this is the time to let us help you. Or let us try to find someone to help you :p Especially beginners, we want to see everyone have a finished application :cool:

Thanks b0unc3, that's a great help :)

I'm not too certain about the legalities Abe, the best place to enquire is on one of the main Community Device threads as all devices will be provided by Nokia under the same legal guidelines. The folks who have already received their handsets from the other device programs will have received and signed up for/accepted whatever they needed to sign up for/accept :) So they know the answer to exactly what you're asking.

Anything I say on the matter has no real authority ofcourse, but as you say I don't think there's an expectation from Nokia that these handsets will be returned. However, there's an expectation from everyone at the competition that these handsets will be used and enjoyed by the winners and we hope not just sold on for quick cash. There's nothing we can do to ensure that happens - so part of me likes the 'fear' of Nokia requesting the handset back even if in reality it wouldn't happen haha :D

This thread is probably a good place to ask your question if you'd like to discuss it with the organisers/council/device winners there, or i can add a general question along the same lines if you'd prefer :)

Now we know you have an application idea Abe, I still want see your application entered ;)

Hey Sourav, I believe this is the only way to add it (unless you can get someone to send you the code on a disc or something, and manually install it.. but that could be messy). Hope you can stick with the slow speeds, it's the easiest way :o Once you have the Maemo Toolchain you'll have everything you need to get your first application created and launched on your N900. It's a pain now, but will be worth it in the end :)

Hi rash, the general split of the prizes is out there but the little details are not quite finalised yet. I'll put together something with the device split and bounty split soon for everyone to look at and consider. But effectively, we have 25 devices to get into developers hands and i would like to see that spread as widely as possible. Also, Nokia might think it very odd when we put in a request for multiple devices for the same person :p So of the 25 devices, the expectation is we'll have 25 different device winners. If someone is lucky enough to be in the position to win a device with one application and have an additional entry also placed in a device winning position, we could substitute a bounty share and allocate that device to the next placed entrant. That was a very long sentence, but I hope it made sense :o

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We got a new donation.
50,00 € by eduperez

Thanks a lot!
All donations: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_Codi...ity_Prize_Fund

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Hi,
I want to participate with an application but I don't know in which category it fits.
It's a client for openligadb, a community driven database for (primary german) soccer results. The applications for live-scores in ovi store are (in my opinion) very limited, so I started to write one to satisfy my needs (primary auto-update scores with selectable notification)

In which category would you put it?

EmaNymton
(for interested german-speaking people you can follow the thread at opensmartpad.org)

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Hi All,

I spent the last 3 days of my vacation to develop a new app called MoGateway which I plan to submit to Network & Communications category of the competition.

MoGateway is an open-source Qt app for MeeGo Harmattan/Symbian which transforms the smartphone into e-mail to SMS gateway. It is localized in English and Bulgarian. Today I submitted it to Nokia Store for validation.

Right now I am too tired even to edit the wiki. So I will submit MoGateway as well as location2sms (at the Updates category) to the competition tomorrow.

10x,
Leon

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I dislike process of packaging an application (though I have done it once or twice) because it cannot be done on the N900 itself, if I remember correctly - I have to use MADDE Terminal.
I am stuck on changing the interface of hildon-touch-selector to display not only text value of the column, but also additional information. The tree model does include the "additional information", but the hildon-touch-selector does not show any awareness of it.
I would be grateful for help with C, since I am quite sure there are problems with memory allocation and pointers which I cannot see myself.
The application attached is hildon-control-panel applet to switch between virtual keyboards. As far as I know, right now a user of N900 has to type long gconf-invoking string in XTerm to change to a different virtual keyboard (it is the primary reason I still use the default virtual keyboard). This applet allows an easy-to-use graphical interface instead, showing currently used keyboard, list of available choices and button to switch to one of them.
An experienced user can understand which keyboard is going to be turned on just by seeing its file name. However, it would be easier for most users if additional information - such as, short description of the package which installed this file - was available.
The two attached files contain the source code of alpha version of the applet. C file is the whole code. DESKTOP file is to be put into directory /usr/share/applications/hildon-control-panel/.
SO file is the library to be put into location /usr/lib/hildon-input-method/. SO file can be found at
http://sharesend.com/4h1pz
Thanks in advance for reading.

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Hi folks, hope all's going well :) You might be interested to know we have 82 entries registered to the wiki so far, here's the break down in categories:

•Desktop, System & Utilities - 17
•Games, Graphics & Multimedia - 25
•Network & Communications - 14
•Location & Navigation - 6
•Other - 7
•Updates and development on existing apps - 11

(There is 1 'TBD' and 1 'Unsure')

Which means there are atleast 69 (no sniggering.. ;)) new entries listed, and 33 of the entries are registered as beginner entries. If we get all of these finished and submitted by the final end date then the competition will be a great success! And we'll all feel like winners with so many new apps to play with too!

Things feel quiet, but as you can see there's still lots of application development going on out there :cool:

Sounds like a great idea EmaNymton :) Hmm.. tricky to categorise as it has quite a few elements.. let's start with a process of elimination. We begin with the 6 categories:

• •Desktop, System & Utilities
  •Games, Graphics & Multimedia
  •Network & Communications
  •Location & Navigation
  •Other
  •Updates and development on existing apps

I believe (from the description) that we can rule out 'Games..', 'Location..', and 'Updates..' out right away. I'm thinking maybe 'Other' category, what does everyone else think is most suitable for EmaNyton's application?

Welcome aboard Leon, hope it didn't spoil your vacation too much :) Don't forget to update ;)

You and me both! It can be a right pain, so I'd encourage our beginners to have a practise run at packaging at this stage (even if the application isn't finished yet) so you're familiar with the process and ready for it.

Memory allocation and pointers - coming from a Java background I know how you're feeling :o Has anyone offered any advice to you yet? If you haven't already i'd advise adding your post to the development subforum, it has a greater chance of being seen there. Also, nicolai and Atilla77 are often on there and have been great in helping me in the past. I'll ask about on twitter later when i get home from work, keep us up to date with any progress etc :)

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IMO for the german soccer results app "Other" should be the category...

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I have added an other apps i ve created : Wleux

https://khertan.net/Wleux

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@kojacker @thedead1440:

Thanks, updated the wiki-page with my app.

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What do we really need? Would an "wordpress" instance be enough? We could have one "post" for each application, one page for each category and use the category tags as well to group the posts.

I assume we can setup this using wordpress.com but I can also offer something like codingcompetition.b2-4ac.com (or XXXXXX.crochik.com)... In fact, I wouldn't even mind registering a domain just for this if people think it is a good idea.

Let me know...the hosting is the easy part... If anybody with "design" talents is willing to participate we can start the experiment :)

The name is "coding competition" so I assume is only fair that we have a "competition"... In other words the number of prizes has to be less than the number of entries :)
I am sure we had this discussion before but I still believe we could rearrange the prizes depending on the number of entries. I would suggest something like at most a ratio of 1 prize for 2 entries... the prizes excess we would assign to the categories with the smallest ratio.... In short, a category needs to have 10 entries to have 5 prizes... The location one for now would be allocated just 3 prizes :(

I have to say that I hadn't considered this but I think it is probably more community-like to add a rule that states only one prize (at least one phone) per person from the competition.... So even someone with a first place in one category and a second another would just keep the first prize...

Just my 2cts...

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Does this thread allow for members to request a new project?

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Sounds good :) Funny enough I played around with adding a competition entry form to an old wordpress blog of mine lunchtime yesterday. It's sitting here if anyone wants to take a look at it. Although it's unfinished, it is actually 'hooked up' email-wise so be warned - anything u submit will be emailed to me! :rolleyes:

Ofcourse we do have our very own design guru - qwazix!

The wordpress idea is pretty neat fcrochik, I hadn't realised that you could group posts by category tags - that would take a lot of work out of me creating the threads manually too :D I don't think I have enough bandwidth on my old blog hosting to handle the uploads/views/downloads without getting charged for exceeding it, do you think you'd have enough? Or anyone else? If you do register a domain I'll share the cost of that, though it's probably not necessary. Would be neat though :)

Or is it just simpler to update the wiki and/or everyone email me with details and I'll create threads on here?

I see what you mean, it's a good idea. Hmm.. but then you have the counter argument that, by making an application in an unpopular category, perhaps they deserve more of an award for their efforts..? :p A fixed number of prizes per category keeps it really simple.. until you dont have enough entries :P If possible, I'd love to find a half way solution where unallocated prizes can spill over into other categories but in the fairest way possible. It's tricky, because using your idea if you got 6 entries in one category but they were all excellent it could also be unfair to reward only 3 prizes. The other prizes could go to another category which had more entries but possibly to inferior applications. Sometimes you can't win every way you try :o It's trying to find the best-worst solution :)

It's a good call too, fcrochik. The reason I wanted a prize per application, rather than a prize per person, was that if a developer put that extra effort in then shouldn't they be rewarded for that? If the maemo.org users like two applications enough to vote both into a prize winning position then it means that the users are happy to see the developer rewarded for both.

I can see both directions being 'right', let's get some more thoughts from the folks out there :)

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I am using QtCreator 2.5 (on Windows 7 64bit) and when I run game to my N900 (via USB) it creates .deb file.
Is this enough to distribute game?

I haven't modified anything in .pro file yet.

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The new project I had in had in mind stems from this thread.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83959

It's called Juicer and is command line only, so it's not very sexy, but it has all of the potential to be one of the best music downloading scripts you will find anywhere.

Does this possibly interest anyone?

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A deb should be enough, as long as all the dependencies are on Maemo repositories.

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Hi folks!

2012 coding competition got me started finally to implement the software I have had on my mind for a while. My problem is that I would like to measure easily the input power of the wooden pellets burner that is used to warm our house.

This problem will be solved by graphical Biopower application for N900.

BioPower is partially derived work from Babyphone by Roman Morawek. However, BioPower's purpose of the use is totally different than Babyphone, so personally I see BioPower as a new application. So what do you think - may I enter the competition with BioPower?

Initially I placed BioPower in category Others, but it could also be in Desktop, System & Utilities. Is Others the correct category by your opinion? If not, what would be the correct choice?

Cheers! :)

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Sorry, I had no time reading the whole thread. I hope I haven't missed something important the past months. :D

Kojacker... I had a really, really bad conscience during the summer... a coding competition done by zehjotkah and kojacker and I'm not participating. :(

So, I changed my mind... you asked for it and I took a single day off from work. Especially for you, kojacker. A single day to have something to submit. Only some hours to code and I must say, my N900-x-ray App was really, really useful compared to... ... ... ehm, my newest project. :D

So, I added myself to the wiki of participants. But I need to sleep a night over it. Not because to protect you from my app, no. But I'm afraid to get hurt physically this time. :rolleyes:

But, searching badly the good news: I'm sure I will be unable to win anything this time. It is anyway not needed since I already have a Nokia N950 and more talented developers could do much more important (Mer & jolla) stuff with it than me. :)

Thanks for running again this great competition!

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Well done! :)

I have added just my open source projects to the list too. I am participating with location2sms which already took part in the competition last year but now has new features and I started porting it to Android as well as MoGateway. As as wrote earlier MoGateway is a beginning project for email to SMS gateway app for smartphones. It main target for the moment is Nokia N9 :)

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So if I got this right, I can release my finished application now (as it falls into the competition timeline) and then it is eligible to be submitted as soon as the Competition Submission page is going online?

Does is matter how it is released? Just update my thread on TMO, submit for Nokia store, etc...?

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I might be wrong, but you can't submit existing app, only if you bring major update to it. So if you didn't announce it yet — you are welcome to, otherwise think of bringing update with new features or UI re-write or something that would be "major update"

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That's exactly what I did :-)

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81501

That's also why I put it into the Update category.

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We got a new donation by proprog

http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_Codi...ity_Prize_Fund