maemo.org - Talk - 2012 Coding Competition

Hi all, sorry for not replying to your posts earlier. Spent all day helping to clean out my parents attic - I'm covered in dirt and dust but atleast I did manage to find some of my old toys :D

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...120908_001.jpg

There's bonus virtual points if anyone can name what the blue hairy figurine is on the right of Castle Greyskull - I assume it's also some character from He-Man? I haven't seen them in over 20 years...:p

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Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 1262854)

Kojacker,

We discussed this with X-Fade today in #maemo-meeting. His primary concerns were time for setup and the amount of e-mail generated based on last year's CC. I've been able to offer help on both of those, and it seems with a small patch & time I'll donate, we will be able to offer you the use of the voting machine for CC! :)

There is one caveat: Unlike last year, this time everyone will get one e-mail with a single token. The same token will be usable once in each competition/election. This means you will have to enter the same e-mail and token for each election.

This also waits on X-Fade reviewing/testing the code changes I made to one of the scripts and committing them to SVN. But the changes are rather small, and needed for the next Council/Board combo election too.

It is very likely I will be setting up the voting machine tables for the competition to help reduce the amount of manual work/time X-Fade needs to commit. So when you do have your entry lists, please carbon me (or Council) on the e-mail with the list.

Thanks - that solution would be better than perfect :)

I want to give a special thanks mention to Woody14619 and ivgalvez (and DocScrutinizer05 too) for all their help in the meeting yesterday. As you can see from the meeting logs, it was their determination to find a solution for us that finally met X-Fade's approval. Unfortunately Woody has ended up with some homework to do, but hopefully it will be straightforward and not take up too much of his weekend. So just want you to know it's very much appreciated :)

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Originally Posted by rfeese (Post 1262919)

I spent several hours trying to create a package tonight but have not been successful. I'm submitting a tarball. Hopefully that is acceptable.

I tried using the submission form but it didn't seem to work, so I sent mine in via the email address.

It's one of the contest rules that your app should be available as an executable rfeese. Please stick with it :) I do feel your pain, honestly packaging has always given me problems. But you will get their in the end - the guys here will help :) And more people will be able to test and enjoy your application too - it will be worth persevering a little longer :cool:

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Originally Posted by leon.anavi (Post 1262928)

It's a shame that we have just a single submission to such an interesting category but in general the interest in the competition is high in all other categories. Btw I had some ideas for location&navigation apps but I didn't have time to implement them.

I bring wonderful and glorious news - we now have 4 submissions to the Location & Navigation category!! Please God let them all be valid entries!:D Hopefully we'll have a few more come in, arriving 'fashionably late'.

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Originally Posted by zehjotkah (Post 1262935)

Donation by Schturman (awesome profile pic btw...)

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Originally Posted by zehjotkah (Post 1262964)

70 EUR by justadude.

Thank you so much guys! Honestly, the total in donations is much higher than I expected this year, we're so fortunate to have such a generous community. :cool:

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Originally Posted by helex (Post 1263080)

Oh jeah, packaging is a pain. :( I ported my worst coding competition contribution 2012 this morning to maemo5. ... I got it fixed at some point and the packaging works but because I passed already the big 30 I'm unable to remember what went wrong the last times.

I wish you'd stop saying it's the worst coding competition contribution! Thing is though, I've looked through all the entries and there genuinely isn't a bad or poor application amongst them. I can honestly say everyone of them is a really good application. So well done you all, you should be proud :)

Sorry to hear about your packaging problems helex, but atleast rfeese isn't alone :) Even if it doesnt go through the autobuilder, try to build a deb locally and attach it to a post somewhere. And I know what you mean about the big 30.. i'm turning 35 tomorrow and I can't remember .. ugh.. what can I not remember again?.. I forgot! :confused:

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Originally Posted by fl4f (Post 1263098)

Just submitted my application meewod for the competition.

Thanks fl4f, welcome aboard! I can tell you I'll be making use of MeeWOD ;)

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Originally Posted by helex (Post 1263200)

I finally found my bug why I was unable to upload to extra-devel!

The evil side of the force was it! I had a svg file with M$ (for a company in Redmond) in the file Name. My app worked fine. But the py2deb python file was unable to work correcty because of this small $ symbol.
ARG! :mad:

Ah great news! If I wasn't so old, i'd remember to edit my reply to you above and save some space here :D By the way, the last packaging I tried to do took me 5 days because of the way Windows handles ASCII encoding for text files that the autobuilder didnt like :rolleyes:

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Kojacker, would you please update my entry? My contribution is not anymore a N9/50 only app. It is now also availiable for the N900. Is this post enought or should I write you a short mail? :)

I'll jot it into the Wiki platform column to remind myself :)

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Originally Posted by Hossein (Post 1263267)

I just submitted my app Kana of The Day ...{snip}...
By the way, I had done some Qt projects before, but this is the first one for Maemo. Things like d-bus and packaging really killed me. So literally I'm eligible for beginner entry. However thinking there are people more 'beginner' than me my morals didn't let me choose the 'Beginner: Yes' choice. Please contest leaders (Kojacker?) determine my status. :)

Hey Hossein, welcome aboard :) I changed it in the Wiki to be a non-beginner as that was on your submission, however doing Qt projects before doesn't really count - if this is your first project for a Maemo or MeeGo/Harmattan system then you're a beginner to us. Let me know if you need to change it :)

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Originally Posted by piggz (Post 1263280)

My simple game is also available for both N9 and N900 (not in extras-devel yet). If anyone in the competition hasnt seen it yet, its here. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86374. Currently im mid-game with kojacker!

Indeed, I'm being a slow coach - I was basically making one move per each time i came down from the attic :P You're just gonna beat me again anyway, I don't seem to be as good at it as I remember :P

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Originally Posted by computerinfo21 (Post 1263207)

I just updated the wiki to include my submission.
I am having trouble uploading it to Extras repo though. Keeps saying I do not have a valid .changes file. The file was generated with pypackager. Any tips or anyone have a .changes file that is working that I could compare mine to?

Welcome to the competition computerinfo21 :) Did you have any luck with this?