My concern about the multiple platform award is slightly different. If we consider our main focus as Maemo/Harmattan, then we have the N900 and N9(50) plus possibly the older legacy Maemo devices (N810/800/770). In my opinion the competition should be focusing on generating development for the two 'main' platforms N900 and N9(50) but it's great if they work with the legacy devices too.

Here's my concern. If you offer a prize for the application on the most platforms, aren't you really diverting the developers attention and time away from developing for the core devices that our members here at maemo.org use? It's cool that someone's Qt application can also run on Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, Raspberry Pi, Panda board - amazing! But is that time and effort for converting to the other platforms going to mean the finished application for our Maemo/Harmattan devices will have less features and will be less polished?

In my head I'm thinking that the competition runs for a finite time, and in that time the developer has to do everything. If it takes X days/weeks to port and test on his Android smartphone, then it's X days/weeks less that could have been spent giving us a better Maemo/Harmattan application. Maybe I'm being greedy and selfish, but I'm only concerned about what we can use here

It's a perfect category for a Qt coding competition, but I'm not sure how much it benefits maemo.org. For me, I would think twice about making it a category in the maemo.org coding competition.

On the other hand, it's only one category out of lots so I'm not overly worried about it

Now I got that off my chest, back to the things that do worry me.. like do I have enough ink in my printer to print a few of these out before tonight's Eurovision competition



If you'd like some voting practise before the competition starts, might I suggest you practise by voting for Engelbert in tonight's competition

/shameless

PS: Sweden or Spain should win imo