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qwazix 2012-10-17 06:51
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
I nominate Copernicus for his excellent work on Pierogi, and his continued support for community requests. Unfortunately the N9 does not have an ir port.

kojacker 2012-10-17 12:25
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
We only have a couple of names so far, so don't be shy with your nominations folks :)

Quote:
Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 1281446)
I nominate you, for dealing with all this mess and committing all the time and effort it's taken to make this CC the success it's been.
Thanks Woody, but I really wouldn't accept it. There's plenty of folks out there in greater need of a new device and more deserving too. It's great to be thought of though :cool:

Quote:
Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1281521)
I nominate Copernicus for his excellent work on Pierogi, and his continued support for community requests. Unfortunately the N9 does not have an ir port.
Cool, he's on the list of hopefuls then :)

Although the N9 doesn't have an infared transmitter, with a little bit of blue sky thinking, you can duct tape one on lol :p One of the silly projects I had my summer school class doing was creating a TV remote using the N950 to communicate with an arduino over bluetooth, which sent the signal to the telly over an IR transmitter.

Then we reversed it around, and controlled an application on the N950 by using pressing buttons a television remote control. The remote control sent signals to a IR receiver connected to the same arduino, which sent commands back over bluetooth to the N950. So we could change slideshow images and play sounds by using the telly remote. Sort of useless, but a teaching exercise for the kids.

Anyway, maybe Copernicus should consider creating a hardware peripheral for a Harmattan version of Pierogi lol :D

Copernicus 2012-10-18 17:09
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1281521)
I nominate Copernicus for his excellent work on Pierogi, and his continued support for community requests. Unfortunately the N9 does not have an ir port.
Why, thank you! :) I do have other little projects I'd like to work on, but yeah, at least for the near future all my available free coding time is going to continue to be devoted to Pierogi, so maybe not very applicable to the N9. :)

Copernicus 2012-10-18 17:22
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 1281702)
Although the N9 doesn't have an infared transmitter, with a little bit of blue sky thinking, you can duct tape one on lol :p One of the silly projects I had my summer school class doing was creating a TV remote using the N950 to communicate with an arduino over bluetooth, which sent the signal to the telly over an IR transmitter.
Not a bad idea at all; that's how some popular devices like the Griffin Beacon work.

Quote:
Then we reversed it around, and controlled an application on the N950 by using pressing buttons a television remote control. The remote control sent signals to a IR receiver connected to the same arduino, which sent commands back over bluetooth to the N950. So we could change slideshow images and play sounds by using the telly remote. Sort of useless, but a teaching exercise for the kids.
Not as useless as you might think -- you might be able to turn that device into a "learning remote" for the N9/N950/N900. The LIRC server (which has been running on the N900 from the beginning) has plenty of support for receiving IR data, it just hasn't had the hardware available to do it...

Quote:
Anyway, maybe Copernicus should consider creating a hardware peripheral for a Harmattan version of Pierogi lol :D
Ah, I'm pretty much just a software guy. But yeah, there's no reason an N9/N950 + bluetooth IR dongle couldn't run Pierogi... :)

jackburton 2012-10-18 19:24
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
*edit* I was too mean before.

I nominate Stephen Elop. He can see how good his "burning platform" really was.

Of course, that would be a waste of a totally good N9.

peterleinchen 2012-10-18 19:27
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jackburton (Post 1282267)
I nominate Stephen Elop.
Of course, that would be a waste of a totally good N9.
Yeah, that would just be a total waste :(

peterleinchen 2012-10-18 19:32
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 1282210)
D'Oh!
The first flash vid not playing with new flash 10 lib on my N900...
Sorry for OT :)

ivgalvez 2012-10-19 06:57
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
@ kojacker

Once the last device has a winner, please send the list of people, devices and Nokia accounts to council@maemo.org, so we can hand it to Nokia for distribution of devices.

kojacker 2012-10-19 07:07
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ivgalvez (Post 1282432)
@ kojacker

Once the last device has a winner, please send the list of people, devices and Nokia accounts to council@maemo.org, so we can hand it to Nokia for distribution of devices.
Sure thing ivgalvez

Last call for nominations for the fcrocik award guys - so far I've had one on pm, a few on email, and the nomination on this thread too.

jackburton 2012-10-19 17:07
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Wasn't there a testing squad at some point? Is there anybody on that team who deserves an N9?

ayushkedia 2012-10-19 19:58
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
I nominate myself for making marblemaze game for maemo5 . I don't have any Meego device till now :(
Hope i will get this time as it will help me a lot in my app development and studies. Thanks :).

Quote:
Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 1281438)
Hi guys, we would like your help with assigning the final device prize - the fcrochik N9 award. This is a N9 which will go to a Maemo5 developer. If you know someone who deserves to be considered (including yourself) please get in touch with me :) We need your help to narrow down the list of possible recipients.

The person we'd ideally like to reward would be an unsung hero.. someone who is doing great work on Maemo5 and who hasn't already got a MeeGo device. Someone who will keep and enjoy the device, and will continue their great work and bring their apps to the new platform. And ideally someone who took part in the competition. However, excellent candidates outside these restrictions could still be considered, so please let us know if you know someone who fulfils some/all of these ideals.

There's no community vote for this prize. The N9 prize is a device that was awarded to fcrochik from the community awards, which he has kindly donated to the competition prize pool - so ofcourse fcrochik will have the major say in choosing the winner. We don't have much time to spend on it so please get your nominations to us asap - via email preferably :)

jackburton 2012-10-20 01:19
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Copernicus (Post 1282210)
Not a bad idea at all; that's how some popular devices like the Griffin Beacon work.



Not as useless as you might think -- you might be able to turn that device into a "learning remote" for the N9/N950/N900. The LIRC server (which has been running on the N900 from the beginning) has plenty of support for receiving IR data, it just hasn't had the hardware available to do it...



Ah, I'm pretty much just a software guy. But yeah, there's no reason an N9/N950 + bluetooth IR dongle couldn't run Pierogi... :)
Crazy idea here. As a winner of of an N950 I'm going to miss using Pierogi. I don't plan on getting rid of my N900 anytime soon. Thought about using it as some embedded device/little arch Linux server. But now that I think about it, why not use it with Pierogi in my media cabinet? If Pierogi had a remote interface over wi-if, then a client for N9 could send the commands to Pierogi as a server. This would be a pretty cool use of old N900s lying around. Even N900s with some broken hardware could be used.

Any thoughts?

Copernicus 2012-10-20 01:51
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jackburton (Post 1282789)
Crazy idea here. As a winner of of an N950 I'm going to miss using Pierogi. I don't plan on getting rid of my N900 anytime soon. Thought about using it as some embedded device/little arch Linux server. But now that I think about it, why not use it with Pierogi in my media cabinet? If Pierogi had a remote interface over wi-if, then a client for N9 could send the commands to Pierogi as a server. This would be a pretty cool use of old N900s lying around. Even N900s with some broken hardware could be used.

Any thoughts?
Well, it makes for a very expensive dedicated IR controller, but yeah, there's no reason why you couldn't do that. :) Right now, the biggest problem is that Pierogi is still a monolithic Qt GUI app; back in the spring, I started trying to detach the back-end code and turn it into a library, but that ended up being a bigger project than I had expected. I still hope to do it, but there are still a few other Pierogi projects I'd like to get squared away first...

But you don't need to wait for me! If you're just going to use your N900 to control a single device, the LIRC server is already available and perfect for this use. You could just start up LIRC with a config file for your device, then log in remotely and give it the commands you want. (Or, set up a cgi-bin script of some sort to contain the LIRC commands, fire up an httpd, and point a web browser at your N900 to run the device. I actually haven't yet set up a web server on my N900, I keep meaning to do that...)

The website www.lirc.org has lots of details about the LIRC project, although it takes a little bit of effort to dredge through it all. :)

qwazix 2012-10-20 15:04
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Just use pierogi on a well-positioned N900 through VNC or SSH. Problem solved.

Estel 2012-10-20 15:46
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
About our last device for N900 developer - see this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...14&postcount=1

...and this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...5&postcount=11

What do you think about this proposition?
---

My personal opinion - I would rather see this device in hands of Copernicus, due to fact, that he is amazingly active for his N900 projects, updating them constantly, no matter of prize on the horizon or not. I think it's more in line with fcrochik's will about this device - for best N900 developer (out of regular Coding Competition).

Still, lxp is worth considering too, that why I'm highlighting this candidacy.

/Estel

Copernicus 2012-10-20 16:23
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1283000)
My personal opinion - I would rather see this device in hands of Copernicus, due to fact, that he is amazingly active for his N900 projects, updating them constantly, no matter of prize on the horizon or not. I think it's more in line with fcrochik's will about this device - for best N900 developer (out of regular Coding Competition).
Thank you! :o But I should say that I'm probably going to continue to concentrate all my available time (what there is of it) on Pierogi at least for the near future, and Pierogi is of very limited use on an N9 (as it lacks the necessary hardware). So it might be better to get the device into the hands of a more active N9 developer...

paoletto 2012-10-21 04:09
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Hi, I would really like to see snx ported to harmattan (nx client)
Therefore i vouch for its author, if he commits to port it to N9 :) (he didnt seem responsive in the last months)

kojacker 2012-10-21 23:01
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1283000)
About our last device for N900 developer - see this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...14&postcount=1

...and this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...5&postcount=11

What do you think about this proposition?
Just checking, are you nominating lxp?

Quote:
Originally Posted by paoletto (Post 1283236)
Hi, I would really like to see snx ported to harmattan (nx client)
Therefore i vouch for its author, if he commits to port it to N9 :) (he didnt seem responsive in the last months)
I'm not sure who the author/current maintainer is, can you confirm? I'm assuming you mean maacruz as this is the only announce thread I can find for something called snx.

Guys you need to tell me who you're nominating, don't leave it to me to figure out cos I'm likely to get the wrong name :)

It would be nice to get a few more nominations for people who have supported/contributed to the coding competition, either with entries, donations, help/graphics, or anything. Just saying :)

Edit: I'll assume it's lxp and maacruz.. so that makes 10 nominations, let's run with what we have (anyone else who was interested would have nominated by now). I'll forward the list of names on, watch this space ;)

peterleinchen 2012-10-22 07:22
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
OK, will there be some vote or a poll or just fcrochik's decision. I am fine with all possibilities, just to know ...

Quote:
Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 1281186)
taixzo, jackburton, Lucien XU, Khertan, qwazix, aStrike, draxcp6, dirksonguer, paoletto, Halftux, titilambert, leon.anavi, munozferna, jukra, helex, MartinK, Schturman, Marrat, and peterleinchen - ... You get a box of virtual cookies plus an imaginary gold star on your fictious report.
Where are our cookies?

No, serious:
Quote:
Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 1281186)
fcrochik, netvandal, and ikkysleepy - I have your Nokia developer username but no extra details (which is fine, but I'm going to email you to double check your Nokia developer account details are all up to date and correct.) (Edit: done) (edit2: moved marmistrz and kesrut to this section)

[..snip..], [..snip..] and saidinesh5 - I don't have any Nokia developer username for you three guys so I'll be emailing you asap to get those. (Edit: emails sent)
What about current info status? Of course just out of curiosity (not impatience).

kojacker 2012-10-22 08:51
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by peterleinchen (Post 1283697)
OK, will there be some vote or a poll or just fcrochik's decision. I am fine with all possibilities, just to know ...


Where are our cookies?
You have to go to your nearest phone store and demand your free Nokia cookies! Be warned, some store owners are bad and greedy want to keep all the imaginary cookies for themselves - don't take no for an answer! Don't leave the store without them!

Quote:
No, serious:
What about current info status? Of course just out of curiosity (not impatience).
I have atleast a Nokia developer username from everyone now, as soon as the final prize is sorted then all the info will be passed on to the rep for device dispatch voodoo.

draxcp6 2012-10-22 12:22
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
I think that fcrochik should decide, it is his reward after all.

Quote:
I have atleast a Nokia developer username from everyone now, as soon as the final prize is sorted then all the info will be passed on to the rep for device dispatch voodoo.
Can't wait :D

Estel 2012-10-22 15:02
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 1283604)
Just checking, are you nominating lxp?
Yes, of course :)

peterleinchen 2012-10-23 07:15
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Hopefully there are at least the Coding Competition's devices reserved?
Quote:
Unfortunately our team has run out of the devices and no longer support it so no new orders are placed.

For sure all N950 winners should be very careful with their new babies.
Quote:
These devices have been shipped out with no warranty, so unfortunately I have no advice to you as for the repairment.
We do not have any replacement devices to send to you nor are we ordering any new 950s
source

kojacker 2012-10-23 12:30
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Hi folks, we have a winner for the last device .. and it's Wikiwide! :) Some of the reasons that we feel Wikiwide deserves his device are that he did make an effort to enter two applications to the competition even with his own N900 having problems, he's never received a MeeGo device, he's positive in the community, and has a lot of karma. And best of all we're sure he'll appreciate his new device :)

But I want to say that, truthfully, any of the nominated folks could have won and would have deserved their device, so please don't feel too bad if you or your nominated developer missed out. (Honestly, I looked down the list and I couldn't make a decision who deserved it more - I'd have had to pull a name from a hat or toss a coin or something :o ).

Thank you again fcrochik for kindly donating the prize :cool:

That means all the devices from the 2012 prize pool are now assigned to the 26 luckiest developers on maemo.org, and I have just emailed all of the winning developer details to the council to be passed to the Nokia rep. If I hear of any problems I'll be sure to get in touch asap. If you hear anything from the Nokia rep directly that you need assistance with please let me know. Best wishes for a safe and speedy journey for your packages :)

Once everything looks good and devices are being sent out we'll sort out the bounty prizes. A big thanks to you guys for being so patient.

Quote:
Originally Posted by peterleinchen (Post 1284310)
Hopefully there are at least the Coding Competition's devices reserved?

For sure all N950 winners should be very careful with their new babies.

source
Yep we have the very last of the last... which is why I'm being extra careful with the address details, and you all need to be careful your devices when you receive them! I'm not sure if there's a version of the 'N900 Fly' application for Harmattan but maybe best to go easy with throwing your N950s around :p

Quote:
N900 Fly: Uses the accelerometer to measure how high you can throw your N900. A irresponsible party piece for the daring
Edit: Council emailed back to let me know that real names are required. There are 5 people who I don't have real names for, I'll be reaching out to you on my next work break!
Edit2: now 3
Edit3: now 0, updated details have been sent to council

jalyst 2012-10-23 19:26
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Did creamy goodness ever end-up giving one of his away?
It was a N950 (IIRC?) plus he had another that was broken that he wasn't sure was worthwhile giving away.

Creamy Goodness 2012-10-23 20:14
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jalyst (Post 1284604)
Did creamy goodness ever end-up giving one of his away?
It was a N950 (IIRC?) plus he had another that was broken that he wasn't sure was worthwhile giving away.
itsnotabigtruck got one n950 from me, I still have one, and the one with a broken sim slot was sent to Arie. He promised to try and get it fixed. That was before he got banned from here twice, so I doubt we'll be seeing that one again.

jalyst 2012-10-23 20:27
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Ah that's right now I remember, we pitched in some $ so you could mail 1x N950 to INABT...
What made you feel Arie's best placed to get it fixed? Did you give it to him to keep if he's not able to get it fixed?
Hopefully he has some success & does hand it back to someone that has time to do some dev work.

Creamy Goodness 2012-10-23 23:01
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jalyst (Post 1284632)
Ah that's right now I remember, we pitched in some $ so you could mail 1x N950 to INABT...
What made you feel Arie's best placed to get it fixed? Did you give it to him to keep if he's not able to get it fixed?
Hopefully he has some success & does hand it back to someone that has time to do some dev work.
Well, the broken one isn't worth much to me, and it's a headache to figure out what to do with it. Even when you send to a dev, you can't trust them to do anything with it. Hopefully INABT comes back someday :\
Anyways, I think Arie said he already sent it to someone to look at, I just doubt anyone that got banned from here is going to do us any more favours. I'll try to get it back if he's not doing anything useful with it, but it's going to cost a small fortune in shipping and I'm not sure it's worth it if not fixed.

helex 2012-10-23 23:10
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 1284427)
Edit: Council emailed back to let me know that real names are required. There are 5 people who I don't have real names for, I'll be reaching out to you on my next work break!
Mh, the next round. I guess we are reaching slowly the point at which we have to talk about our blood group. Nokia, you won't get even a single drop. Never again. LOL! :D

Btw, would have been great if Nokia had also made cars in the past... I would need a new one (since monday, yay!) and would trade the N9 from this competition to get something to sit inside and drive to work... ;)

aStrike 2012-10-23 23:18
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Will piggybacking be sufficient? I am sure some one lacking a n9 will agree to this barter. :D

Edit: P.S Congrats to Wikiwide for getting a n9! really a worthy member of this community. :)

Estel 2012-10-24 02:05
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by helex (Post 1284687)
Btw, would have been great if Nokia had also made cars in the past... I would need a new one (since monday, yay!) and would trade the N9 from this competition to get something to sit inside and drive to work... ;)
Hey, will this one suffice?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...6p_2_jaslo.jpg

It *does* work, no catches, and I would gladly trade one for brand new N9 (then sell it and profit ;) ).

It's amazing, that such small consumer electronic device is worth 4x more than car, even of this size and age, BTW. It's just... Weird, if you compare materials used etc.

/Estel

// Edit

And it's very moddable, look!
http://c.wrzuta.pl/wi15070/358cc6ec0...41ca/fiat_126p

jalyst 2012-10-24 05:45
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness (Post 1284684)
Even when you send to a dev, you can't trust them to do anything with it. Hopefully INABT comes back someday :\
I'd be surprised if we never hear from INABT again, when I spoke to him last he was just in a very busy period of life.

Quote:
Anyways, I think Arie said he already sent it to someone to look at, I just doubt anyone that got banned from here is going to do us any more favours.
I'll try to get it back if he's not doing anything useful with it, but it's going to cost a small fortune in shipping and I'm not sure it's worth it if not fixed.
Yeah but the entire community != TMO, & he has clearly broken forum etiquette each time he's been banned*, there's not some agenda on the part of mods etc.
Anyway if he's no longer interested in fixing or has had no luck, lets start another small donation pool to get it back to you or someone who has better shot at fixing.
Once he's told you how he's going with it, we can then decide how to proceed... :)

*although in some instances others that he was arguing with probably also should've been banned (they were penalised or missed IIRC).

Halftux 2012-10-24 12:54
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 1284427)
Edit3: now 0, updated details have been sent to council
Thank you kojacker for the updated status.
That is nice there is still a chance that the device will arrive in this month. I hope in seven days me and my N950 will go together to the United States.

ivgalvez 2012-10-24 18:02
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
OK guys, Nokia has the list. I hope they will begin sending the prizes very soon.

aStrike 2012-10-24 21:47
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Halftux (Post 1284864)
Thank you kojacker for the updated status.
That is nice there is still a chance that the device will arrive in this month. I hope in seven days me and my N950 will go together to the United States.
Sorry to disappoint, but it may take 2-3 weeks before nokia actually ship the devices (as mentioned earlier)... though I really really hope I am wrong. :)

EDIT: Do you think nokia will contact us before actually sending the devices? (probably not...)

jukra 2012-10-26 10:11
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
"To ship, or not to ship, that is the question"

;) :cool:

P.S. Just trying to entertain myself, while eagerly waiting...

munozferna 2012-10-26 17:28
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by aStrike (Post 1285100)
Sorry to disappoint, but it may take 2-3 weeks before nokia actually ship the devices (as mentioned earlier)... though I really really hope I am wrong. :)

EDIT: Do you think nokia will contact us before actually sending the devices? (probably not...)
They contacted when they sent me the N950 previous time.

EDITED.

jackburton 2012-10-26 17:35
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by munozferna (Post 1285956)
They contacted me for the N950.
Should I add nokia domain to my safe email lists so it doesn't go to my spam if they do contact me this way?

titilambert 2012-10-26 18:16
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by munozferna (Post 1285956)
They contacted me for the N950.
Hi !

Can we know why ? :confused:

:D

Thanks !!!!

jalyst 2012-10-26 19:14
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jalyst (Post 1284734)
<SNIP>Anyway if he's no longer interested in fixing or has had no luck, lets start another small donation pool to get it back to you or someone who has better shot at fixing.
Once he's told you how he's going with it, we can then decide how to proceed... :)
@Creamy_Goodness

Has he had any luck getting it fixed? Cheers.


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