Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Mh, you might misspelled it. The beginner section is for new developers, not for new projects.

Sorry. :)

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

So kojacker, here you have: The worst Coding Competition contribution 2012!

Worth at least a trophy, isn't it? :D

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Hey jukra, BioPower sounds pretty interesting :) Well, I don't see any reason why it can't take part assuming that it's not Babyphone with a name change or something like that :p You are expected to have done a certain amount of work on your application. But one of the advantages of open source software is that you can build upon libraries and code already out there to develop new and wonderful things. If you're happy enough to outline and be judged on the work you've completed I don't see why it can't be added as a new application.

That's the spirit helex! :cool:

Oh you're much too modest, i'm not believing a word of that ;)

Haha.. it's certainly not the worst ever, and indeed it is worth a trophy! Unfortunately we don't have any trophy's as prizes, maybe you'll have to be content with something else :p

Looking through the descriptions on the wiki there are so many great applications coming our way :cool:

Thanks proprog!

We have 650 Euros pledged thus far! Which reminds me, we need get these prizes locked down. There isn't that much feedback coming back, I might create some choices and leave it up to a forum poll or something. It's so important for us to be seen to have the right splits for the majority of maemo.org members, cos there's always one or two who come back with concerns after the competition end when you can't do anything about it.. GRRR! :p

100% Helmuth, the beginner section is for those new to development and not for new projects by experienced Maemo/MeeGo developers.

Sorry Leon :o At the moment you have two entries, one as a beginner and one as a non-beginner. Presumably you'll be updating the MoGateway entry to non-beginner entry :)

• leon.anavi (Leon Anavi) MoGateway Network & Communications 90% Y MeeGo Harmattan/Symbian
• leon.anavi (Leon Anavi) location2sms Updates and development on existing apps 100% N MeeGo Harmattan/Symbian/Android

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

And another donation by Sap.

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

Idea: Don't thank me for these donation posts, but find some posts from the donators and click "thanks" there. ;)

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Meta-thanks @ zehjotkah for the idea to thank the original donators. ;)


On the other hand, the actual reason for this post is to notify you that I will be on vacation for the next two weeks until some time around 10th of September.
I dunno if this conflicts with the end of the competition and thus the counting of votes.
However, I will take care ASAP after my vacation to do the counting (given the competition already had ended).
Also note that essentially everyone should be able to do the counting process by following the steps as described on the wiki page.

Edit: Just remembered that I also donated. Completely forgot that. xD
Don't get me wrong, I was not advertising to thank me. I just found the idea of a meta-thanks (a thanks for a call for thanks to others, if you wanna see it that way) kinda funny at the moment I wrote the post. ;)

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

And another donation by OVK.

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

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Niels raised a concern with respect to conducting the vote for the Coding Competition. (His contract with Nokia has ended). Has this been relayed, or addressed yet, so that the Coding Competition can have a backup plan if necessary?

I think a substantial delay will be more problematic this time because the sourcing of the devices is dependent on Nokia and maemo.org is also preparing for a transfer from Nokia.

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

This is the first I've heard of a possible problem with the voting, SD69, so thank you for bringing it to our attention. Last month I enquired about voting on the council thread and was advised that it should be fine, so I really wasn't expecting any problems :( But I understand things are changing around here...

We were expecting voting to commence some stage around middle of September. Are you able to provide us with some indication of the likelihood that we will not now be able to use the normal council voting mechanism? Is it still possible, or should we accept it is unlikely? We don't really know what is going on with the move away from Nokia so really we're relying on council to keep us informed :o

In terms of a Plan B, there is only polls on the maemo.org forum left as an option. Anything else will remove the voting and accountability away from maemo.org. You may remember from the first coding competition that there was controversy around the forum polls as multiple votes were being received from the same IP addresses, and members were asking friends to sign up and vote for their application. In that instance we requested the council and Reggie's help to adjust the results by removing duplicate IP votes and those new to the forum, and in the following year used the council voting mechanism to help reduce any possibility of fraud.

In case of needing to use the forum polls as our Plan B, we will require the help of Reggie and council. Reggie can run queries on the raw data retrieved from the site database, but the results will only be made available to council. As was the case back then, I would need to liaise with someone from council to receive the adjusted results. We would also need to allow Reggie the time to work through the polls as there is a lot of information to get through and it's important it isn't rushed.

So I think my questions back to council would be the following:

• How likely is it that we will require a Plan B for voting?
• Is there any reason you can see that we couldn't fall back on forum polls as our Plan B?
• Would council be able to reach out to Reggie to check willingness/availability to adjust the polls? (I can reach out, but it keeps it official through you guys..)
• I'll need a point of contact on council to work with Reggie to retrieve the results and provide them, or a subset of the results, for announcing as winners. Will that be ok?

Around 10th of September works out well as the competition closes then, but there's voting on follow on after. So depending what happens with the voting (see the latest news from SD69 above :rolleyes: ..) we could still be using your brain power - so make sure you get plenty of rest on your vacation :)

And big thanks to Wonko, Sap, and OVK for the donations - much appreciated :cool:

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

So, there are only 2 weeks left until end of submission but there is still no submission page available?

Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Exactly what I was asking myself the last 2 weeks! Would have come with that question too today.

Will there be asubmission page?
Or will the wiki page announce and fremante repos be enough?