lol yes it can be tricky to decide My first thoughts is "System & utils", but as the community will be voting let's open the question up.. what do you all think? Please let realsportcars know where you think FastSMS belongs

Some good news on the donations! zehjotkah is kindly looking after the monies and will be treasurer for the competition

The link is now up and running, and if you would like to contribute you can donate using the link below:



I'll send everyone on the bounty pledge list a pm soon to let them know.

When you click on the link and sign into Paypal you will see a screen similar to below (this is a screenshot of my donation). There's a place to enter the amount of your donation (please note, it's in Euros) and a place to enter your username so we can track it.



After sending you'll get a confirmation code and an email, from Paypal, to your registered email address to confirm it.

Please note a couple of things, namely euros and fees.

Originally we were collecting in dollars, ofcourse euros are worth a little bit more than dollars ( 1 euro is currently worth approx 1.2 dollars) so if you give the same pledge amount in euros it'll actually be a little bit more.

Unfortunately we were not able to avoid Paypal fees, even with donations. We did research into it and along with zehjotkah and dj_steve's help we found that paypal will take a fee whatever the transaction. Using my donation as an example, it breaks down like this:

The entire money sent:
€41,00 EUR
Fees:
-€1,13 EUR
What zehjotkah got (and goes into the bounty):
€39,87 EUR

This will probably affect the bounty total a bit by making it lower, but it's unavoidable unfortunately If you are able to give a little more to help cover the fees of your donation that would be amazing, however it's not expected - we're genuinely very grateful for everything you contribute

That's indeed good news! Maybe that will lure more developers in, now that this has been turned into an actual incentive...

On the category question, as far as I remember the "official" categorisation has been that the Desktop category was all about the 4 home screens and the top bar - so everything else messing with the device itself would file under System & Utilities.

Oh, btw - won't be able to start on my game in time. There's a pile of requests for ApMeFo I want to work on as soon as possible, so that's what most of my spare time will vanish into.

Oh no.. that was the vertical shooter right? I was looking forward to that Oh well.. I still want it sometime!

Wow.. a pile of requests for ApMeFo, thats great! Shows people are genuinely interested in what you're doing

Edit: I just checked the ApMeFo thread and I see 51 thanks on the OP and 11 pages so far.. looks like a lot of people are appreciating your hard work

jus thought id jump in here and post this, may be useful for someone

http://www.rolbe.com/paypal.htm

No, that must have been someone else. Mine's going to be a LBNSMMORPG (location based not so massive MORPG ). First release would have been more of a proof-of-concept, anyway, so I guess it's not a big loss, anyway.

Thanks

Though I don't think that's because of my lousy beginners coding skills but more thanks to the fact that people have been looking for something like that for a while. I was just lucky enough to pick it up and to have a couple of helping hands who are posting bug reports and request while bearing with my sub-par first implementation.

But I have to say: developing for Maemo is a lot of fun. While the number of users isn't even remotely comparable to those of other OSs, they are much more active and eager to help - so I really, really enjoy developing here.

I've only read the past 3 pages, so I may have missed a bit, but is _anyone_ working on improving Modest, particularly the way it interacts with IMAP servers?!

The only projects I'm aware of are the ones listed under 'Participants'
in the competition wiki. Nobody has entered a project related to Modest as yet, feel free to get involved with a project of your own

in my opinion the fees aren't that high considering, and for the kind of friendly home brew ethos i'm seeing here a grand prize of say €1342.42 seems more fitting than $1600.

received anopther two donations:

total - fees = actual received amount

€20,00 EUR
- €1,13 EUR
= €18,87 EUR

and

€10,00 EUR
- €0,74 EUR
= €9,26 EUR

If someone decides, that he needs the moey back, I can send it back without having to pay these fees within 60 days.
Also please remember to type in your maemo.org user name.

Thanks!

zehjotkah (starting my journey to spain in some hours(by car), couldn't sleep anymore )