Winner should get more than the MeeGo conference travel and accommodation from Nokia(that's the price Nokia is giving to winners, right?).
Each winner of category should get the Nokia reward and cash reward would be the same for each categories first and second place?
I would happily donate 10 euros(if that's worth anything these days ) for the competition. Will wait till the situation with who is holding the money is clear.

Competition should be extended for 2-4 weeks imo.

The winners would anyway get that bumper prize so It makes sense in distributing the collected prize money to the runner ups.

Second place - Getting 1/9 of the total prize.
Third place - Getting 1/18 of the total prize.

lets collect different ideas for the distribution process and in a week or so lets decide by a poll, okay?

Is it possible to join this competition with an upgrade of an already released (-testing) app ?
I'm the developer of maenotify and I would like to update it with some new cool features and I'm wondering if I can join this competition

any incremental update is counted.
also your app is in -testing, so not released yet.
feel free to join and don't forget to edit the wiki page

Just a tip (maybe useful):
when editing the wiki link your developer username to your maemo.org profile, and the app name to the garage page of the project.

Shouldn't the details of the prizes have been finalized be for this thing also started? That, and perhaps there should be a more official way to register an entry. Filtering for all [Announce] posts made after a certain date might be a bit tedious. Just my 2 cents.

With amazing prizes like a paid trip to the Meego conference as well as a cash prize of undetermined value, I think this should be taken to the next level. Developers even mildly interested in looking into the Meego platform can develop QT apps which will work on Maemo 5 and be able to work in Meego and Symbian 3. This competition could be promoted on Symbian forums as well as the Meego forum. I think an extension to the end of June would aid developers put something out that is more polished. I think reaching out beyond maemo.org would be a good thing. But whats needed is an official competition page with a running ticker of what the cash bounty is going to be as well as assurances of the Nokia sponsored prize. I am willing to donate web space and purchase a URL to do a webpage if anyone wants to step up to design a page.

Got word back that there's a chance of pushing for an official maemo.org paypal account, but it's not a cert. IMO we should go ahead with the chipin and we can always transfer it over if we get one.

Regards the bounty split, I wrote this 4 pages ago! Where were you all? heh :P
Some categories will have more competition than others, multimedia might only have a few whilst utilities will probably be swamped. i'd like individual category winners but would be more inclined to split the bounty amongst the top X apps in the comp.

Im a bit wary of extending the deadline too far but the end of June is just another week so it's not a biggie in my opinion. Im happy to bow to the will of the people on that one. My only fear would be seeing the momentum taken out of it by moving the start date. Id like to get everything nailed down this weekend if possible, mainly because of the following reason..

Im a bit worried about aspidites comment regarding "Shouldn't the details of the prizes have been finalized be for this thing also started?" We open ourselves to problems if the friendly spirit of the competition goes out of it. I tried setting up this comp before and it was dragging on by weeks as people love to chat good ideas but watch the months go by :P The Nokia prize was a wonderful surprise, the comp started off with my own bounty pledge and is growing through the generosity of others, and will no doubt grow throughout the competition. It started with $50, I mean.. I couldnt well split that up amongst a bunch of people or it wouldnt be much of a prize :P It's just so happened that the competition is continuing to evolve as it starts. But we do need to lock stuff down soon, and it does remind me we got to put some firm rules down on the wiki.

Definitely advertise it on the Symbian forums if we can, thats a great idea.

Let's not loose sight that we are a bunch of amateurs trying to do the right thing here, it can't all be 100% but it's moving in the right direction

the best thing would be to get an official maemo.org subdomain and paypal account, indeed!
I think to make it a little bit longer is a good idea. Maybe inclusive July? Poll?
Yes, the cash can be transferred very easily. So donate, donate, donate!

I have to go to bed now...^^