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Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

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Originally Posted by kojacker (Post 763603)

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I dont think so asking if the winner wants the money or a trip is really a goer, Nokia have said they'd substitute a N900 if someone cant do the trip - I cant really see anyone taking the money. To me it looks like the 2 options are:

1. Each of the 6 categories gets equal share of bounty. 1st/2nd/3rd get 50%/30%20% of that share.

2. Each of the 6 categories gets equal share of bounty. 2nd/3rd/4th get 50%/30%20% of that share as Nokia are rewarding the 1st place winner. If for any reason the Nokia reward falls through, revert back to option 1.

If I get one person who says "Yes" to this idea, I'll start up the poll. :)

Else, gimme some more options!! :confused:

Ok, here's one more option?

3. The winner gets the trip, 2nd place gets 60% and 3rd gets 40%. Since its not so big money the 4th place would get anyway...

But most importantly get the poll up :) I'm not sure what happens when you merge 2 threads - imagine there would be a poll in both.. But hopefully it will work with one. Seems there's no other option anyway.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

Dun dun dunnnnnn!!!

Voting for System & Utilities is now up! That's our final voting thread! :D

As usual, please double check over everything and make sure it's how you want it.. especially those pesky links.. :)

There were a few projects withdrawn.. apologies guys, we just couldn't wait any longer.

Thanks for the suggestion Lukash, I'll get the bounty share poil done after some lunch :cool:
Edit: Or.. even better if someone wants to go ahead and start it :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

Could someone please STICK the voting polls? For example this http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=59080 is already in page 2 in Application's threads.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

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Originally Posted by andy80 (Post 764316)

Could someone please STICK the voting polls? For example this http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=59080 is already in page 2 in Application's threads.

Hi Andy, as I mentioned on several of the threads I request each of the voting threads to be stickied as soon as they are created. I do this by reporting the post to the mods and requesting it be done. It's not something the thread creator can do. Each section has different mods, unfortunately we have to wait for that mod to pick the report up and decide to do it or not.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

I have created the bounty share poll with the 3 options we have collected, it runs for the next 24 hours.

Please vote and make your voice heard, especially the kind folks who donated into the prize fund. This is it.. what is decided is what we're going to do :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

and another donation!

€10,00 EUR
-€0,54 EUR
=€9,46 EUR

by gs1

Thanks gs1!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

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Originally Posted by dwaradzyn (Post 760716)

Are all t.m.o. users allowed to vote in voting polls? I hope there are some limitations (like account created before competition started and at least 10 posts). I have a worry that if there is no limitation like that it would be possible to have a large amount of new users to vote for specific app. This is easily done by promoting your app on high traffic forums or mailing lists. I would sleep better if this kind of activity would be made impossible.

Apologies, it was pointed out to me in a pm tonight that I missed this post (I hadn't spotted it at the bottom of the page).

The truth is that basically every user can vote, the things you list like account created before the comp or atleast 10 votes are good ideas but these restrictions are just not available to place on the forum poll.

However, if you check out the competition wiki, it says in the rules:

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Voting is strictly one vote per user. The use of multiple accounts to vote, creating fake accounts to register votes, or using other illegal means to register votes is strictly prohibited and may be seen as an attempt to defraud the poll and community. Your votes may be discounted and/or your entries disqualified if judged by the contest organiser that you have done so.

It's maybe not written very well, but the sentiment is there. Cheating will not be tolerated and if there is enough proof I will certainly pull the application out of the contest. I will continue to work with the mods and everyone else to help ensure that your applications are in as fair a competition as possible, and that those who have donated to the prize fund are not cheated out of their money. We're all about openness and fairness here on Maemo.org, so let's have ourselves a good natured and friendly contest.. and a lot of fun too :)

On a lighter note, have you noticed a lot of the threads for our application entries keep springing up here there and everywhere on the active topics lists? :D Ive been jumping in and out of them for a looksie, it's pretty interesting.. all these new bugs reported, feature requests coming in, questions.. sometimes Im not sure if the developers are happy or not with their new found attention :D Especially some of the lesser well known applications, it's cool to see them get their deserved share of the limelight too :cool:

One of the aims of the competition is to get the word out there to people about the great apps we have that they dont see.. and I think to an extent we're achieving that :) When I was writing them up I was reading the descriptions and asking myself "Where has this app been, why haven't I heard of it before??!" The standard is genuinely very high :) I check the voting threads out constantly and I see guys with great apps and maybe only 1 or 2 votes.. sometimes 0.. and I feel terrible for them.. life can be cruel! :o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

Mmh, small question... all voting threads are in the Application section except the Games Voting thread.

So why is the Multimedia poll under Application and not in the Multimedia section? :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

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Originally Posted by Helmuth (Post 765182)

Mmh, small question... all voting threads are in the Application section except the Games Voting thread.

So why is the Multimedia poll under Application and not in the Multimedia section? :)

Haha.. I dunno, I made them all in the applications section and the games one was moved afterwards. At the time I was hunting around for it and I couldn't understand where it had went. i guess one of the mods must have moved it for us. :)

While they were moving it, they didnt bother to sticky it though! :p I think Ive requested 3 times for that one to be stickied now, and the same for the others that have been floating around. Seems to just take a while depending who's modding that forum at that time and how busy they are.

Im spending all day watching these votes coming in.. it's kinda hypnotic.. seems to be more interesting than doing work.. ;)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st July. Open to all!

I wanted to update you all that we're relaxing the rule on enhancements and bugfixes during the voting period.

When we started the competiton, it was done in the spirit of no enhancements only bug fixes during the voting period. It's come to my attention that a lot of these projects have been updated and pushed into the repositories anyway. On reflection, there is nothing in the wiki rules that clearly spells this restriction out. It's also simply unenforcable to be constantly checking the changelogs and versioning numbers of all 50+ projects that have published their changes without having more people spending time to do so. I wanted to let everyone else know asap in case they had anything planned which was delayed by this.

As we are a development competition, in this situation I dont see any reason to restrict or stop the development now. It's only a few days left, so to cover everyone from now I propose that small feature updates and bug fixes can be made to the entered applications. However, I will not be updating the competition voting threads to include the new features - how the projects were completed on the July 21 is how they will be represented in the competition threads.

I know some of you have been sticking to this ideal and I apologise if you have delayed any updates because of it - as I said, in practise, the way we are set up it's not a rule that we can enforce. I'm afraid it's another of those lessons that's been learned for whoever runs the next competition :o