The contest itself has been completly bad organized in my hopinion.

1) lot of developers didn't know about the contest. I've talked with some friends during the contest, to ask some advice about Qt ecc... and many of them replied me: a contest? what? I didn't know anything about it!

2) lot of users didn't know about this contest! How is it possible that in a Community of thousand people, only 100-150 vote for a contest?!

3) Letting users to decide the 100% of voting result causes some problems: the most known application is voted, not the best one itself. There should have been a commission to decide at least a good percentage of the vote, for example: users count for 50% of the vote, the rest is decided by the commission.

4) again: the whole contest has been very very bad advertised. On #maemo nobody knows anything, same thing on mailing list, ecc....
You should rename this contest "Talk.Maemo.Org Coding Contest", imho.

My 2 cents.