The more the merrier, feel free to bombard/link/add to sig/pm whoever/whatever/wherever you can

At the moment we have $423 pledged, including your own $10 (thank you very much Adib!), and there's 35 projects listed as participants in the Wiki. We also have had 3,218 views on the wiki page so far.. We're doing alright for the first attempt by people who don't know what they're doing but moar moar moarrrrr of everything would be very welcome!

We also have a bit of a juggling act, as some people voiced concerns earlier on that the competition was getting too big as it is now, and it was putting off new developers from joining. It's kinda hard to know what is best way, intimate to maemo.org and friendly but smaller, or more wide reaching and try to get as many apps as we can but maybe put off people from getting involved... hmm i dunno.. I think whoever is doing the next one will learn the lessons of this one

No chance! It started off as a weekend contest, then a month, then 2 months.. that elastic band isn't stretching any more or we'll be here til Xmas

But you're getting there, that's the main thing. I hope you catch up.. or drink plenty of red bull

It's a great question, one I have thought over loads of times. At the moment that's what you should be aiming for. I'm hoping rmerren will do a tutorial on his experiences in packaging, as I have never done it either. I can see this being tricky for people new to it, and I know myself I'd leave stuff to the last minute. I can see files being attached to forum posts and things like that to get around it, but Im sure people will help out too. I might open a thread closer to the end where beginners can request assistance and help packaging their files.

There's a few wiki pages on it, it seems to depend on what language and environment you are using etc. I had a quick search here, take a look at these and see if they make any sense to you

http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...d_Distributing
http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging_a_Qt_application