Thread: On the massive success of the Nokia Innovators contest at bringing us quality N900 software
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2010-10-18 , 14:01
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First off, i don't know what the rules of the Nokia innovators contest were. However, when i notice that one of the winners of $25,000 for "Best N900 App" hasn't been given a proper release on the N900, it seems a bit odd.

So, here's an issue that needs to be (ideally) resolved or, that failing, more publicly outed as yet another Nokia/Maemo epic fail and tossed onto the manure pile after that airing. I'm posting the synopsis of the gruesome story here so that it can be discussed in the context of a community response, and in the hope the council can communicate with Nokia about it.

I'm talking about Stellarium Mobile by a developer named Fabien. The mobile version of Stellarium was highly anticipated in the Stellarium thread, and then all development seemed to cease and people weren't sure if it had even been completed for submission into the contest until...

09-21-2010
Originally Posted by mivaho View Post
Hi,

It won (shared) first place as best application at the "calling all inovators" competition. http://www.callingallinnovators.com/

"Best application for the Nokia N900 (prize will be split between two developers): Stellarium Mobile by Fabien Chéreau (Germany) and FrontView900 by Ben Lau (Hong Kong)"

So that's a nice USD 25K for all the work that was put in.

Would love to see it in the testing repo soon.

Michel

Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness View Post
Well, this is stupid. How do you "win" without actually releasing the app? The contest submission was due by June 10th, so it's been collecting dust for the THREE MONTHS (wtf?) it took to judge the contest, and we're still waiting to see this in the Ovi store after that?

Originally Posted by mivaho View Post
I guess Fabian is still contemplating if he should ask money for it or not. That's to say if this rumour (mentioned in above the video in this blog post) is true in any way.

Then again he received some price money now so that idea might just change.

Michel
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Well, he's just got $25,000 for it. That's more than anyone else gets for a Maemo application for donations; either release it into Ovi or release it into Extras. Just release it!

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
Or return the dang money so another, more accessible app can feel the love.

Wasn't source submitted for this contest? If so, how was it licensed?
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Last edited by Flandry; 2010-10-18 at 14:48. Reason: Clarified app in question
 

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