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Custodian 2012-05-17 13:51
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
maemo.org Coding Competition 2012 sounds quite well

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Originally Posted by mrsellout (Post 1207817)
+1 on the limiting it to new apps, it can get confusing to voters how much work has been done for the competition and is unfair on new submissions when competing against something that is much more polished.
what about apps, that has been released years ago, and havent been maintained or even dont do their functions?

I vote for an "Best update" (or "Long start" or whatever) category for such apps. There will be stimul for developing, and chance to compete with others ;)

zehjotkah 2012-05-17 15:14
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
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Originally Posted by helex (Post 1207733)
The name MeeGo is simply outdated.
Read again... ;) "MaeGo" ;)


Okay, then lets start to think about the categories.
Should we have as many categories as main prizes (N950s)?

helex 2012-05-17 21:23
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by zehjotkah (Post 1207851)
Read again... ;) "MaeGo" ;)


Okay, then lets start to think about the categories.
Should we have as many categories as main prizes (N950s)?
20 different categories?!

Mmh... I would say lets consider at maximum 7 categories
  • +1 categorie for updates to existing applications
  • +1 categorie for portings of old applications from the N900 (or older) to the N9
  • +1 categorie for Tablets (all maemo based Tablets until the N810) and all other Tablets and open source projects with official Qt support

So we would get 10 categories (perhaps fewer because many developers have left the community) and have 20 devices.

I would say, 1 device at each category as main prize and the remaining devices are spread depending how many contributors we get in each category. At example a games category with 20 entrys and a Office category with only 3. We need to discuss a system how to spread the remaining 10 devices but I would say 3 N9(50) for a category with 20 entrys would be more fairer in comparsion to only a single device.

Hm, something like this. I'm not sure. It's a idea. Does anyone out there like it? :)

zehjotkah 2012-05-18 06:07
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Last year we had 8 categories (http://competition.meetmeego.org/) plus the beginner category.
The probem with your third category is, that we can't test these apps due to lack of hardware (other tablets)...
We have 25 N950, so we should have about 12 categories.

I like your idea to spread the devices depending on the amount of submissions in each category, though.

Estel 2012-05-18 06:33
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
As for Coding Competition, I *think* (= it's just a suggestion) that it would be great to recognize multi-platform programs, i.e. ones that are (and will) be developed constantly for both Maemo 5 and Harmattan, at least.

The more platform-independent code, the better - after start of COBS, it should be even much easier to target multiple platforms, so we should already promote good practices.

timoph 2012-05-18 07:10
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1208407)
As for Coding Competition, I *think* (= it's just a suggestion) that it would be great to recognize multi-platform programs, i.e. ones that are (and will) be developed constantly for both Maemo 5 and Harmattan, at least.

The more platform-independent code, the better - after start of COBS, it should be even much easier to target multiple platforms, so we should already promote good practices.
Yep. I'd also put weight in apps being cross-platform. Maybe the theme of the competition could be cross platform / portability? For example with Qt that isn't even hard to do since just by using Qt you're writing for multiple platforms by default.

Personally I'd drop updates to existing applications from the competition unless it's close to a complete rewrite. At least I would like to see *new* interesting apps as a results of this competition.

MartinK 2012-05-18 07:28
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Well, I would say long term updates are rather important. IMHO an incrementally developed and up to date application > half finished on-off application that goes unmaintained a while after release. :)

Estel 2012-05-18 08:06
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Of course, but it sounds like good candidate for Community Awards, not exactly Coding Competition. the latter, both historically and ideologically, was always focused on influencing creation of *new* things.

Now, it can also promote good coding practices, via focus on multiple target platforms.

/Estel

pipould 2012-05-18 09:23
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
I'm in, hope it will be interesting :)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1208407)
As for Coding Competition, I *think* (= it's just a suggestion) that it would be great to recognize multi-platform programs, i.e. ones that are (and will) be developed constantly for both Maemo 5 and Harmattan, at least.

The more platform-independent code, the better - after start of COBS, it should be even much easier to target multiple platforms, so we should already promote good practices.
Well, it's already quite easy to dev both for S^3 and Meego, just a question of target, I would say even too easy (just resolution and icons changes). Then about Maemo/Meego... I don't know, I just started to dev in Qt/Qml few months ago...

Venemo 2012-05-18 10:29
Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 
Hey guys!

I have a bunch of good ideas and stuff that'd be nice to do. Such as, releasing some of the unreleased apps for Harmattan, backporting my apps for Maemo 5, and I also have some new ideas to implement.

However, I already received an N950 from the original meego.com device program. Am I still eligible for this?

I of course wouldn't want another N950, but I could definitely use an N9. :)


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