Thread: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!
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2010-05-25 , 13:20
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With 1.2 and the MeeGo announcement, it's a bit of a busy day today Ofcourse that means there's no longer any excuse to wait for 4.6, so you C++ and Qt guys get to work

Originally Posted by lukash View Post
While checking out the list, I noticed one of the apps, Flipclock 1.0, has been in development since 2008. I already feel biased, as its my direct competitor, but who is going to judge what is a significant update? I think it should be clearly stated by the author on the wiki, checked by an unbiased person and most importantly taken into account by the voters. Otherwise it doesn't seem too fair...
I can understand where you are coming from, but at the same time the fact is that in the open source community many projects are carried on or are using parts of other projects. It wouldn't be fair to exclude these projects either. There is a part in the rules where it states that the entry.. actually i'll go fetch it..

"Already released software must have a substantial upgrade from previous releases to qualify for judging and must also contain a list of changes the author has made to the previous version.
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So it is something that's taken into consideration with the entry. Once it comes to judging then everyone has to make their own opinion if the latest work done is worth their vote or not

Originally Posted by JMacalinao View Post
How about social or Internet-related apps? Do they belong in the Other category? I'm developing a "better" tumblr app for Maemo (I said better because I already saw an old python script from a year ago, although I'm starting from scratch with Qt), and I'm at a loss at how to categorize this.

I'm also planning to develop another app (to increase my chances ), but I'll hold up on that one until I'm finish with the tumblr app.
I must admit, the categories are something that worries me sometimes. Basically I took them from the app Categorise and a few online sources. What fits in one category or another is sometimes very subjective, I mean what about a desktop widget that records the surrounding noise and stores the file with GPS coordinates to the phone.. is that desktop app, a multimedia category app, or location catgeory app? lol

I asked a couple of pages back if it would be a good idea to have a competition committee who could help decide this sort of thing and any disputes, no response as yet though..

tumblr is a blogging app right? It kind of does a bit of everything (according to google..), I would put it in 'other' for the meantime anyway. If anyone is in any doubt I'd suggest adding it to what you feel is closest of the 6 categories, but please keep in the back of your mind there's a possibility that it could be moved..

b0unc3, I don't think it's likely we can bring in another category. In fact, 6 is probably too many. If you think of bounty split, for example, that's 6 "winners" to start off with. If you want to award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd then you got 18 shares to think of...What maybe could do is rename or better name one of the existing ones?
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