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Originally Posted by rcolistete View Post
The Maemo/MeeGo community is responsible to distributing half of the 100 Nokia devices (in "Community Awards" and "Code Competition").

Inception, NITDroid and EasyDebian are large coding projects that :
- radically change how we can use Nokia N9/N950, i.e., without them, e.g, some Harmattan users would move to Android, iOS, etc, worlds;
- are cited in hundreds of sites, blogs, etc, everywhere during the last months, giving a huge visibility to Nokia N9 / Harmattan OS, showing other users how Android, iOS, Symbian, WP are limited;
- many thousands of users depend on, including some other coding projects (mainly inception to overclocking, chroot, etc).

None of the three cited projects was awarded in "Community Awards", to much surprise of the community.

There is still time for the Maemo/MeeGo community give some award for the breakthrough work on Inception, NITDroid and EasyDebian for Harmattan.
Ok we understand you really like these three projects rcolistete And you're surprised they didn't receive a community award. Similary there are 1 or 2 people who applied that I would have bet my house on to win a community award but didn't get one either. So I understand a little of how you feel. But please understand that is not a matter of the coding competition to compensate people who missed out on community awards - that's between them and the council to sort out any misunderstandings or problems.

Here's what it boils down to and it's really simple. If they want to enter the coding competition they are welcome too as is everyone else. As you did with Calculus, they can do the same But they have to play fair along with everyone else, we won't be making special allowances for them.

To be fair they haven't asked any special allowance, you're asking on their behalf. However as of this moment we've had no contact from any of these developers about joining the coding competition. Maybe we can put this on the back burner for the time being until such a time would arise?

Originally Posted by rcolistete View Post
Please read carefully my previous comment about NITDroid, Inception and Easy Debian for Harmattan on "Code Competition" :

"IMHO, the above authors/projects would be put in a special category (hors-concours) of "2012 Coding Competition" and receive their N9/N950 as soon as possible (in July) to boost their projects development, with the simple condition that they say they will continue developing their projects."
It's not going to happen rcolistete. Either they come on board with the competition the same as everyone else, or they won't be in the competition.

Remember that thousands of Nokia Lumia's were distributed to Nokia developers already registered in the last 12 months, many were authors of very, very simple softwares.

Now we have breakthrough coding projects without any award here from 100 available devices. It is totally non-sense and would make people outside Maemo/MeeGo laugh about us, desmotivate the cited authors, etc.
If you have a problem with how devices were distributed please have that discussion with the facilitator of that device program.

If you have a problem with how the community may be seen please discuss that in the community section.

These are valid concerns and if you feel that then you're right to raise it. But they are better addressed elsewhere rcolistete. At the coding competition we are only concerned that we reward the people who participate in the fairest way we can and that we highlight all their good development in the best way we can.
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Last edited by kojacker; 2012-06-29 at 14:15.
 

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