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Originally Posted by kojacker View Post
Now, if anyone would like to volunteer to make a competition website and has some hosting for it we'd still be all ears
What do we really need? Would an "wordpress" instance be enough? We could have one "post" for each application, one page for each category and use the category tags as well to group the posts.

I assume we can setup this using wordpress.com but I can also offer something like codingcompetition.b2-4ac.com (or XXXXXX.crochik.com)... In fact, I wouldn't even mind registering a domain just for this if people think it is a good idea.

Let me know...the hosting is the easy part... If anybody with "design" talents is willing to participate we can start the experiment

Originally Posted by kojacker View Post
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
The name is "coding competition" so I assume is only fair that we have a "competition"... In other words the number of prizes has to be less than the number of entries
I am sure we had this discussion before but I still believe we could rearrange the prizes depending on the number of entries. I would suggest something like at most a ratio of 1 prize for 2 entries... the prizes excess we would assign to the categories with the smallest ratio.... In short, a category needs to have 10 entries to have 5 prizes... The location one for now would be allocated just 3 prizes

Originally Posted by kojacker View Post
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
I have to say that I hadn't considered this but I think it is probably more community-like to add a rule that states only one prize (at least one phone) per person from the competition.... So even someone with a first place in one category and a second another would just keep the first prize...

Just my 2cts...
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