Behold my most beautiful first python app, which does the incredibly useful job of querying one of my old PHP scripts on my server for converting a timestamp to human readable output. Incredibly useful, I tell you...



Joking aside, I love how easy it is to open a connection, set parameters and read the response. And I quite fancy how comfortable it is to develop a PyQt application in eric4.

Now, if only reading the GPS data and constructing+displaying images was just as easy there would be nothing to stop me from turning my idea into reality. Well, other than the lack of time, but I'm getting used to not sleeping lately...

(But, wow! Look at all those [almost] finished projects for this competition. Looking forward to getting and playing around with them!)

Btw, that's one great tutorial on Pygame, kojacker! Will most probably not use it in this first project (unless there's actually a way to somehow make it work with Qt? Doesn't seem like it, though), but I'll definitely have to play around with it later. Looks rather reminiscent to game programming in Java, and that's definitely a good thing.

[edit]Definitely not rubbish. At least it made perfect sense to this former game dev...

I have some questions about the rules that I could not answer by reading most of the pages and the wiki:
1. What do you mean by "Already released software"? Does software on the extras-develpment repository count as "released"?
2. Can one enter the same application in more than one category?
3. Does porting code from other platforms to the n900 counts or does the code need to be original?
4. I read many pages but could not find out how to donate.

By the way great idea!

Nathraiben, that's really your first python app? Pretty darn good!

I must say, Im liking Pygame for exactly the reason you mentioned (Im coming from Java J2ME programming experience)

Hmm ok fcrochik.. let's have a go at these Keep this in mind first of all, the competition was designed with the idea for generating new coding and development. So really it's for projects that would have new coding or development that has happened between May 21 and July 21. But that new coding could be a brand new game, or a new level to an existing game. It might be porting across an emulator from another platform. So existing code can be worked with, what you'd be judged on is what you've done. One of the rules in the wiki talks about entrants that use existing code, you are expected to have completed a reasonable amount of work/changes of your own compared to the previous release and an outline of these changes should be submitted along with your entry. It's just so others on here can see what you've done and judge it fairly against everyone else.

So with that in mind:
1). I guess that would be released, but that doesnt disqualify it. If work has been completed or released during the competition dates then it can be judged with everyone else.
2). Nope, an app should only be entered into one category. But you're free to enter as many apps as you like.
3). It's judged on what you've done, you're free to work with legacy code but you cant take any credit for the stuff that isnt yours
4). At the moment we're taking pledges with a view to collect the donation later via paypal. We have $423 pledged at the moment, and always pleased to accept more If anyone would like to leave a message here or pm me, I'll add them to the list (anonymously if they like too).

At the moment we are waiting to hear if a maemo.org paypal account will be created. Randy was to look into investigating this, hopefully over this weekend, and see if it can be pushed along further. Unfortunately at the moment we're still waiting to see. But if it's not going to happen, then we'll collect it in a trusted member's account for safe keeping until the competition ends.

I hope that all made sense.. or sorta

I would like to know more about this:
Where "entry.txt" should be submitted and when? Why PayPal address is mandatory?

The entry.txt file should be submitted along with your application whenever it's completed and ready to be judged. There's more than 5 weeks left, is your application ready now? If so, please hold onto it a little while as the exact method of submission has not been decided on. It may well just be attached to a forum post, but the thread for completed entries won't show up until nearer the competition end date.

Including the paypal address with your competition entry is just standard from what I seen of other competitions, it makes it easier for the organisers to pay out any winnings right away. However if you're worried about privacy then feel free to leave it out, that's no problem - the main point of the entry.txt file is to find out who are the developers and learn more about the application you are submitting. We can get in touch afterwards to get it from you if you're one of the lucky winners

Please understand, however, that the bounty is being collected in paypal - it's just easier that way - so that is the way we expect to pay it out. It's fairly painless to set a Paypal account up if you dont already have one.

I've added my footify project to the Wiki page with participants.

This is a Spotify client based on despotify and I sure hope it's finished before July 21st.

I didn't really understand the instructions about the needed extra information but I'm sure someone will explain it further if I happen to be eligible for any kind of payout.

EDIT:
And the comment just before mine explained it perfectly. Thank you kojacker.

My application is quite ready. Hopefully it is possible to submit within few weeks, because I might be on vacation far away, so it could be hard to submit in July.

I think we need more advertising for this...
We still need more donations and more developers..

Above all, more time!

(Convincing GPS to work inside a re-usable class took far too long, so I'm way behind my tight schedule... ;P )

Btw, how will the submitting part of the contest work? Will we have to upload our application to extras-devel? If so, would anybody be willing to help me with that, as I don't know nothing about packaging (and above all don't even know how to figure out dependencies and such).

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