It's been a while without an update, apologies for the delay

First to start with some possible bad news, to get it out of the way first Don't worry, it's not too bad You haven't heard much about the competition website so far as the developer has been tricky to get hold of. zehjotkah has been trying his best emailing and trying to bump into him at c-base without much luck. About a month ago we got a link with the beginning of the 2012 competition site so I thought maybe the developer was on holidays. However i noticed last week the link is now gone again and zehjotkah still no reply from the developer. So I'm losing patience in it to be honest

Still, there's always a solution and the most basic one is we simply add a column to the wiki with a path to where the application can be downloaded from. Folks can email me with all the details they need to enter and for me to set up the category threads here on maemo.org. And really, thats basically the function of the competition website covered anyway. It would be nice to have, but not essential - we'll keep trucking on

Now, if anyone would like to volunteer to make a competition website and has some hosting for it we'd still be all ears

Time for some better news Would you believe we now have 5 applications listed against the Location & Navigation category? A big thanks to fcrochik, adityamhatre, munozferna, emyei, and noidea but we still need more! but it's looking much more healthier than the last time (was 2)

I think we still need a safety net here, in case we don't have 6 valid enteries when the competition closes, so I'd like you all to think about a prize rule where unallocated prizes can be fairly distributed to other categories. Cos sometimes my head hurts when I think about it

Finally some scarey news... only 1 month left!!!!!!!

If you have any worries about packaging applications, something you're stuck on, or anything else that may be holding you back from completing your application then this is the time to let us help you. Or let us try to find someone to help you Especially beginners, we want to see everyone have a finished application

Thanks b0unc3, that's a great help

I'm not too certain about the legalities Abe, the best place to enquire is on one of the main Community Device threads as all devices will be provided by Nokia under the same legal guidelines. The folks who have already received their handsets from the other device programs will have received and signed up for/accepted whatever they needed to sign up for/accept So they know the answer to exactly what you're asking.

Anything I say on the matter has no real authority ofcourse, but as you say I don't think there's an expectation from Nokia that these handsets will be returned. However, there's an expectation from everyone at the competition that these handsets will be used and enjoyed by the winners and we hope not just sold on for quick cash. There's nothing we can do to ensure that happens - so part of me likes the 'fear' of Nokia requesting the handset back even if in reality it wouldn't happen haha

This thread is probably a good place to ask your question if you'd like to discuss it with the organisers/council/device winners there, or i can add a general question along the same lines if you'd prefer

Now we know you have an application idea Abe, I still want see your application entered

Hey Sourav, I believe this is the only way to add it (unless you can get someone to send you the code on a disc or something, and manually install it.. but that could be messy). Hope you can stick with the slow speeds, it's the easiest way Once you have the Maemo Toolchain you'll have everything you need to get your first application created and launched on your N900. It's a pain now, but will be worth it in the end

Hi rash, the general split of the prizes is out there but the little details are not quite finalised yet. I'll put together something with the device split and bounty split soon for everyone to look at and consider. But effectively, we have 25 devices to get into developers hands and i would like to see that spread as widely as possible. Also, Nokia might think it very odd when we put in a request for multiple devices for the same person So of the 25 devices, the expectation is we'll have 25 different device winners. If someone is lucky enough to be in the position to win a device with one application and have an additional entry also placed in a device winning position, we could substitute a bounty share and allocate that device to the next placed entrant. That was a very long sentence, but I hope it made sense