This competition is a very nice idea, and I'd like to see it organized in the best possible way, if it will be a great success we may repeat it, may be 3/4 times per year.

I guess it has two objectives:
* new apps
* new developers

I'd like to not trascurate the second point.

Actually there is *already* a developer community that in the spare time works for their projects. They have for sure some WIP projects and more possibility to win respect of a new developer coding a new application in less than one month.

These may not motivate new developers to participate and the competition will only "accelerate/sponsor" existing developer community (gaining only the first objective: more apps).

It may be nice to look for a solution that may handle well both points.
E.g. for each category write the already mentioned wish new app list, and have two subcategory, the first totally open to every project/app/idea (where "old" developers may fit their wip projects), and the second that will take only projects from the wish list and have so two winner per category.

Another point should be to have Nokia more involved while repeating the competition regularly. What's about an n900 for every category winner? and in the future, the first meego device and so on?

But to achieve that we have to propose things that meet Nokia plans.

I'm *quite sure* that putting the world Qt somewhere will help a lot (best qt application? for category?, a qt apps wish list?), but we have to take live other toolkits too and not hurt "old" developers.

Just brainstorming, what do you suggest?