I'd avoid crucial phases in July/August as it is vacation time in almost 1/2 world.
Also 2nd half December and 1st half January might be at risk...

yes, I think it's too often.
We should prefer quality over quantity.

Just to let y'all know, Ive paid out on the beginner's contest prizes tonight. Jonne has chosen the Advanced Qt C++ book so hopefully thats a sign of some advanced N900 applications to come

Jonne also kindly passed on the cash prize, so that enabled us to create a new prize for the 3rd placed runner up robbiethe1st, and his excellent BackupMenu

First 3 places (sorry robbie, I only got 3..) also get the lazer cut stands, and I'll send them on once fake sends them and they arrive here. So I'll be in touch for postal addresses then. In the meantime, please check you all got your winnings (to the paypal addresses you sent me, so it's your fault if you don't! ) and let me know if there's any problems

Still waiting for a few paypal addresses for the other categories, but I hope to have the full list this week. I'll pass on the details to zehjotkah to award the rest of you at that time Keep an eye out for the paypal confirmation emails

Nokia prize winners - i guess Quim/Nokia will be in touch a little closer to the conference to make arrangements with you. Let me know how you get on

Happy to pass down the money as it would be too much to get the trip and money too. I code Qt quite much at work and first was going to start DropN900 with Qt too. I would say advanced book is just the thing for me to get better as a programmer I didn't know about the book and stand before today kojacker contacted me. So this experience (being part of the competition) just gets better and better every day. The stand looks sweet!

I've done all payments except of two, since PayPal is not allowing to transfer money to certain countries.
Please check your mails.

I have received the payments.

Thanks zehjotkah, kojacker and everyone who has been involved in all these admin works.

And of course, I would like to thank everyone who donates and votes in this competition. This is such an awesome and encouraging event for all Maemo developers!

Well done kojacker and zehjotkah! Now it is time to wait for the precious N9 hopefully this price is 10% of the phone As it looks like now I can not continue my work without wasting 80% on testing and compiling as the emulator is not working at all... But I give this promise, the first day I get a new phone I can continue this project with. That day will be the start on the programming again. This assuming I do not get the emulator to work.

Might be the wrong thread but nokia will probebly present the N9 at nokia world as they did with n900 right?

What else can I say? Thanks all...

I received the payment, too. Thanks a lot!

Because of adverse conditions it was forbidden for my project to join the Beginner section. So I was sadly unable to win the book price...

I want to do something useful with the donation from this community (and it's not enought for a new Dreambox 8000)
So I'm now proud to proclaim:


I wrote my first N900 project in python using PyQt4. But I still don't like Python and perhaps I have enought time and energy to contribute at the next competition with a application written in C++ and Qt!

Thanks zehjotkah and kojacker for this great competition!

simply awesome
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