Thread: 2012 Coding Competition
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2012-09-30 , 13:29
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Originally Posted by Wonko View Post
Here you have the full numbers:
Code:
[rc@colin coding_competition_2012]$ for i in *blt; do tail -n 1 $i ;
grep -e "^1.*" $i | wc -l ; echo "-----" ; done
"Coding Competition 2012 - Desktop, System, and Utilities"
95
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Games, Graphics, and Multimedia"
82
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Location and Navigation"
66
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Network and Communications"
80
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Other"
88
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Updates and development on existing apps"
92
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Beginners"
80
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The voter turnout is pretty low actually...
Thanks for working out the numbers Wonko Yep it's quite a bit lower than I hoped for. I guess it reflects the community interest and where things are at the moment

It doesn't look so bad when you put the number of application submissions against the number of voters. Although the number of voters is smaller this year, I still think it was right to make the winners and the prize distribution a community decision rather than a jury or some other method

"Coding Competition 2012 - Desktop, System, and Utilities"
95 voters (22 submissions)
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Games, Graphics, and Multimedia"
82 voters (17 submissions)
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Location and Navigation"
66 voters (4 submission)
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Network and Communications"
80 voters (14 submissions)
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Other"
88 voters (11 submissions)
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Updates and development on existing apps"
92 voters (18 submissions)
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"Coding Competition 2012 - Beginners"
80 voters (22 submissions)
Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Whoa, I expected, that CC will "beat" council voting by a factor of at least two. Well, for sure CD beat it via quality of outcome, so it's OK, nevertheless

But, if, after all, I'm not wrong that CC gained more votes than BoD will, it's not happy prognosis...

Well, no need to put aside festival of happiness after CC results (rightly one, as it's great success!) by me worrying about future, so lets put it aside.
Oh I really hope the council and board elections can gather more voters, it's a really huge decision for the future of our community here. Although I take some pleasure the coding competition normally beating the council voting for numbers, this time I will be very pleased to see a huge turnout for the council/BoD elections

Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
votes are less than number of submissions

sad... I knew it was hard work to vote, but I supposed it was substantially easier than coding a full application from scratch.
It's not quite as bad as that.. But right, we tried to make it as easy as possible for people who were eligible to vote to do so. I hope no-one takes the low voter turnout to be a reflection of the quality of their applications, personally I think this was the best group of applications in any of the 3 competitions. Whatever.. please all be proud of your hard work

Originally Posted by thedead1440 View Post
i think the vote count has more to do with newer members unable to vote than anything else...

a number of developers couldn't vote too due to this...
This is true, though I was only aware of less than 10 in this situation. They may have been others who didnt raise it though..

Originally Posted by Wikiwide View Post
Then I am not an average user, because it's difficult for me to read a wiki without having an urge to edit the article here or there, even if I am not an expert in the subject. Having an account on "wiki.maemo.org" is synonymous with having an account on "maemo.org" itself, correct?
I think the average tmo/maemo.org user is aware of the separation as, like you say, as soon as you try to get involved with other things outside the talk forums (such as editing the wikis) you run into needing to create an account to do that. The average talk.maemo.org user who isn't involved with other things may not be though. It's a lesson from this competition, but hopefully it's something we don;'need to think about for the next one.

Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
IMHO, some voters might have just voted in some categories and not others, so the unique voter count might by slightly larger than just the number of voters for the most popular category.
I think you're right about that. I sent an email to Woody earlier this morning to see if he knew anything about checking how many voters had used unique voting tokens which would answer that question.
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