Originally Posted by rfeese

Finally did a scratchbox port and now my game seems to be crashing in SDL_Init on the device only. How frustrating! Don't know if I'll have time and energy to figure out what is wrong.

Originally Posted by kojacker

Thanks jukra, yep I can confirm I've already received it - will update the wiki in a second

Originally Posted by ivgalvez

kojacker, zehjotkah

This Friday, at 15:00 UTC, we will have a meeting with X-Fade. Please send the details for CC voting to council@maemo.org so we can comment it with him and try to assist if you want to comment about it.

Hi council,

This is very short notice, but I'm hoping you can liaise on behalf of the coding competition with X-Fade before he leaves on holiday (if I understand correctly, he will be away for a week after 10th September). Effectively we'd like to stay as close a possible to the same voting procedure as was used last year. The exception being that last year we had 8 categories to vote on, this year we have one less - so 7 categories in total. Hopefully we'll be able to find out a solution with X-Fade that works around his current commitments and also enables us to use the council voting mechanism for the competition.

The list of competition entrants are not final at this time (the end date for submission is the 10th of September) but will be available for X-Fade soon after closing.

User eligibility to vote will be exactly the same as the normal council election voting, in regards to registration date and karma.

We'd like the voting period to begin as quickly as it's possible after the closing date. A date soon after X-Fade's return when he is able to set things up would be fine. We can still go through verification of entries/set up category highlight threads in the meantime. As for a voting period, depending on when voting starts, a week or 2 maximum would be sufficient.

The email sent out to users last year (copied below) had the following structure, and something similar for this year would be perfect. I can update with the missing details later.

Thanks again for your help with this
Ryan (Kojacker)

SUBJECT: Maemo Community / MeeGo Coding Competition 2012 voting
Dear <USER>,
The voting of the Maemo Community / MeeGo Coding Competition 2012 is now open, and you have received this email as you are eligible to vote.
There are <NUMBER OF CATEGORIES> different categories so you are able to vote <NUMBER OF CATEGORIES> times - once in each category.
A full list of participants, the projects and screenshots can be found at:
<COMPETITION LINK>

HOW TO VOTE
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Voting will run from now until <END DATE>.
Your voting credentials are:
URL: http://maemo.org/vote/
E-mail: XXXXXXXXX
Vote token: XXXXXXXX
After authenticating yourself, you can choose your preferred project in order of preference. You will have an opportunity to verify and confirm your vote afterwards.
Once you have confirmed your vote, a unique secret identifier will be given to you which will allow you to verify after the
voting that your vote was counted correctly.
Once you have voted, you will not be able to vote again.
Note: You have to use the same voting credentials for all the categories.
Thank you for your vote!
Regards,
Maemo Community Council

Originally Posted by norayr

Any chance that deadline will be deferred?
I noticed the competition event too late (of course my fault) and currently code as much time as I can, but afraid won't do it in time.

Originally Posted by aStrike

Hi,
Could you please add my entry for the Coding Competition to the participants table, I am not sure how to, so I really don't want to mess the wiki page up.

Developer: aStrike (Oren B)
Application: Alpha Strike (Fast-paced 3D action shooting game)
Category: Games, Graphics & Multimedia
Current Progress: stable release 100%
Beginner Entry: Y
Platform (MeeGo/Maemo/etc): fremantle (N900), MeeGo planned

Thanks In Advance!

Originally Posted by rfeese

Still haven't figured out why my code is exiting while SDL is initializing. Running it inside GDB I get "program exited normally", even when I try disabling the SDL parachute, which seems strange. I have another project using SDL and GLES which is working, so I SHOULD be able to figure it out, in theory.

I will resist the temptation to smash my phone and see if I can get some vacation time tomorrow or something to work on it. I'm busy this weekend so I will have to be finished by tomorrow night.