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

I contribute $ 25 for an application database, similar to the Smart list to go (Palm OS) Dataviz company and another $ 25 for a full schedule of contacts and appointments from Iambic Agendus style (also Palm OS)

edit:

was forgetting, an application with the capabilities of CallRec also be very welcome! (Add $ 25 for it)

thanks

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

Awesome, thanks Adib and qwertyberty! I'll add you to the list *thumbs up*

Keep them coming in y'all! We're getting close to the $200 mark in pledges :cool: The more we collect the easier to make more prizes :)

I hope so too! im sure you'll have enough finished to enter :)

There's a challenge for someone :) If Niko ever gets that wishlist done it would be a good place to add your offer.

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

I'll contribute $100 towards the prize.

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

Zomg! Massive donation! Thanks Ken *bows bows* :D

Hopefully it's not Hong Kong dollars... :p

Edit: By the way, when typing Ken's donation pledge in, I noticed the wiki page has been viewed 789 times! Let's hope we can convert a lot of those views into new apps :cool:

If anyone hasn't checked it out for a few days, the wiki has grown quite a bit http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Coding_Competition_1. And I see Lukash has his file manager project, which he mentioned a page or two back, added in there now too :) There's 9 projects listed so far, it's great to see it changing every day though we'll have to let rmerren know there is no "misc" category, thats what "other" category is for :p

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

I added to the wiki page a wishlist draft, had to read again the entire thread, so do not blame me if somethingh is missing :)

Everyone is invited to fix, enhance and add ideas (prizes?).

It's easy, just register on garage, login in the wiki, go to the competition wiki page, and click on "edit" near the "wishlist" section, to add an entry to the table just append before the final:

the lines:


About the Qt 4.6.2 apps I think that we should accept them even if PR 1.2. will not be released before the end of the competition, the developer should just inform how to workaround the not automatic installation and promise to repackage them when the new PR is out :)

(really I think that PR.1.2 will come before!, just to not exclude qt developers in the worst case).

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

Thanks Niko for adding the wishlist, though im not sure what to make of a couple of the entries (M-Fart, M-Boobs ?? the mind boggles..)

Yeah... kind of. Everyone is very welcome to take part in the wiki but please be responsible, particularly in areas outside the wishlist. It's just common sense :)

For example, competition rules are on there, participants entries are on there, etc etc. If you edit the page rather than a section and things go wrong, or if someone tries to sneakily manipulate the competition in their favor, it has the potential to cause a lot of problems. Sort of part of the reason i didnt want the wishlist on the competition wiki page to begin with to be honest.

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

I just added (hoping) all the requests made on this thread, m-fart and m-boobs may seem a little stupid to me too, but it may be the community likes so much to say to iphone users "we have them and nicer too" that I did not feel free to censure them :)

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

Just admit it, they are your ideas aren't they? :p

Ok, fair enough it's what other people have requested :) M-Fart I can picture what that is .. yuck, M-Boobs... maybe something to do with shaking the accelerometer.. that could work! ;)

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

Okay, thanks. I've got several Ideas and requests for my project. I released only a early version... so if you say so I will try to contribute with my small DreamRemote project. :)

I've got not much time, and I scheduled several improvements to be done late this summer. But I guess this competition could motivate me to learn more and faster. :rolleyes:

The competition time was extended by 1 Month. I spent about 1 Month in my rare spare time to get this far (published 10 days ago). So I guess when the deadline for already begun project will be in June, not July, it is fair for all. :)
It's hard to look at seperate improvements when you see and test a project with all parts altogether - Okay. Just a suggestion. I don't think I have a chance to win anything on this contest. My project is only for people useful who own a Dreambox (or a AZBox, DBox and something similar in the future :rolleyes:) - So it's only for a small part of this community useful... :(

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

As mentioned here these are two iphone app : iFart and iBoobs.
I've seen some videos on youtube and I think both can be realized for maemo.
I have also updated the wiki with this informations.

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

I think m-boobs, m-fart, came from my post, if not sorry, I intended that for a joke... :)
Maybe someone will like/need it. :D

Yes, m-Boobs probably has to do something with the accelerometer. :)
If you want a demonstration, just go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNu6WMfR1k :D

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

Is there some restriction on who can enter the competition? Nokia employees, subcontractors, Santa?

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

Nothing so far, I haven't given it much thought tbh. I don't think it's necessary as the forum will be voting for the winners, what do you think?

Hmm thinking about it more, I guess there is a restriction on voters in that people have to be maemo.org forum members (in order to register their vote in the maemo.org poll, obviously). Apart from that nothing yet.

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

Uhm, maybe a restriction could exist... but I don't mind about it.

OTOH since this idea started from a community discussion would be better to leave this competition open only for the Maemo Community members (and newcomers), and not for Nokia employees etc etc.
Also for the prizes, if you win a sponsorship for the meego conference in Dublin and you are also a Nokia employee you'll get some conflicts, since (maybe) you could be already sponsored to join this conference by Nokia directly.

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

What about having a seperate Subforum for the Coding Competition(s)?

We could have a seperate threat for each Application to discuss about pro's and con's and suggest improvements.

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

I think that's a good idea but maybe more likely after this competition has run. If it's a success and it takes off, Im sure we could get a part of the site dedicated to coding competitions in the future. It's still a bit of an experiment at the moment, we got to prove that people are interested in more of this sort of thing :)

Your second idea would also be great after the competition to provide direction and constructive ideas to the developers to help make their app the best it can be. I dont think it would be a good idea to make it compulsory before the competition has ended, I want the developer to feel free to develop as it sees fit and some developers will instead feel pressured and maybe annoyed by that. Ofcourse there's nothing stopping those that want to from doing so - a lot of the projects in the wiki have project pages - maybe we'll have one for DreamMote+ too :)

Edit: Well what do you know... I just checked out the wiki and not only is DreamMote sitting there in participants, but you've also got a new project page for it :) *thumbs up*

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

Yes, there is also a discussion about it. And I called it DreamRemote, not DreamMote. ;)

But I'm not sure about the category I've chosen. Is it really a Multimedia application? It's about TV watching and recording. But only to control a external Hardware on your N900... :confused:

And yes, I got a project page. But I'm still at daggers drawn with the toolkit. In my optionion not easy to grasp. :(

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

Speak of the devil :D
http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/...e-release-1-2/

WOOHOO!

"Slightly" disappointing that MeeGo wont be supported on N900........ But I'm not surprised :(

On another note, its nice to see the participants list fill up. We really need some promotion for this to make things more interesting... Can't compete for prizes like that with just 2 or 3 others! I'm gonna try to send a notice to a local (Czech) linux server and see if they would publish it...

While checking out the list, I noticed one of the apps, Flipclock 1.0, has been in development since 2008. I already feel biased, as its my direct competitor, but who is going to judge what is a significant update? I think it should be clearly stated by the author on the wiki, checked by an unbiased person and most importantly taken into account by the voters. Otherwise it doesn't seem too fair...

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

How about social or Internet-related apps? Do they belong in the Other category? I'm developing a "better" tumblr app for Maemo (I said better because I already saw an old python script from a year ago, although I'm starting from scratch with Qt), and I'm at a loss at how to categorize this.

I'm also planning to develop another app (to increase my chances ;)), but I'll hold up on that one until I'm finish with the tumblr app.

Btw, I'm quite new with Qt (and Maemo development in general), so I'm wishing myself good luck on this. :) It's a good thing that Nokia finally releases PR1.2 today, so I can be comfortable with developing Qt 4.6 apps.

Good luck to everyone participating, and thanks to the people sponsoring this competition!

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

I will suppose it will go under "Other" category... but maybe we need another one category...

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

With 1.2 and the MeeGo announcement, it's a bit of a busy day today :) Ofcourse that means there's no longer any excuse to wait for 4.6, so you C++ and Qt guys get to work ;)

I can understand where you are coming from, but at the same time the fact is that in the open source community many projects are carried on or are using parts of other projects. It wouldn't be fair to exclude these projects either. There is a part in the rules where it states that the entry.. actually i'll go fetch it..

"Already released software must have a substantial upgrade from previous releases to qualify for judging and must also contain a list of changes the author has made to the previous version.
"

So it is something that's taken into consideration with the entry. Once it comes to judging then everyone has to make their own opinion if the latest work done is worth their vote or not :)

I must admit, the categories are something that worries me sometimes. Basically I took them from the app Categorise and a few online sources. What fits in one category or another is sometimes very subjective, I mean what about a desktop widget that records the surrounding noise and stores the file with GPS coordinates to the phone.. is that desktop app, a multimedia category app, or location catgeory app? lol

I asked a couple of pages back if it would be a good idea to have a competition committee who could help decide this sort of thing and any disputes, no response as yet though..

tumblr is a blogging app right? It kind of does a bit of everything (according to google..), I would put it in 'other' for the meantime anyway. If anyone is in any doubt I'd suggest adding it to what you feel is closest of the 6 categories, but please keep in the back of your mind there's a possibility that it could be moved..

b0unc3, I don't think it's likely we can bring in another category. In fact, 6 is probably too many. If you think of bounty split, for example, that's 6 "winners" to start off with. If you want to award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd then you got 18 shares to think of...What maybe could do is rename or better name one of the existing ones?

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

I know what you mean... I've to admit that playing with categories is really hard ;)
Also renaming a category is quite hard, the current categories seem to be good and many developers find the right place where their applications belong ... but sometimes someone will fails, but I will assume that with the 'other' category we are quite ok.

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

Will donate 5USD as soon as I get a summer On-Campus Job.

Yeah, the amount is low but cant help, I am a student.

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

lol yeah I remember those happy student days, $5 would feed and clothe me for a week.. or well it had to do :)

Any amount is very welcome indeed, if you find out later than you can afford it then let me know and I'll add you to the list. If the summer job doesnt work out then don't sweat it, spend your free time learning some coding instead.. and throw $10 in the next comp when you're rich and famous with your new fancy Qt coding skills :p

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

kojacker: are there already news regarding the maemo.org paypal account?

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

I have heard nothing new about it, I was wondering if you got a reply to the email you sent?

Reminds me Im also waiting on a thread title change..

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

I've sent Randy a new mail.
Should we use a private paypal account, if it doesn't work with the maemo.org one?
We need to open donations as soon as possible.

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

I also want to donate 20 dollar. Please let me know where I can pay for this veryvery good idea to hold a competetion of coding.:D

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

I've sorted out my paypal account, so I will also donate $20.

My attempt at getting an announcement on a Czech linux website was succesful: http://www.root.cz/zpravicky/soutez-...kaci-pro-n900/ :)

The second link in the article leads to this thread.

Briefly, cos I don't have the time to translate it now, it introduces the competition and mentions the categories and that the 6 winners will get the trip to the Dublin conference from Nokia. It also says that although this is named "The First N900 coding competition", it is actually the second, the first one was organized on that website in january and the winner will get an N900 in about 2 weeks. I knew about that competition (sadly I missed the application deadline for it), should have told you guys to name this one "The Second" :D

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

A billion thanks jacobkorf and lukash for the pledges, I'll add them to the lists. I'll send you everyone a pm, jacobkorf, when we get the paypal situation sorted :)

We're at $365, getting close to the magic $400. Then onto the magic $500, then the magic $1000000.. then.. then.. then.. then we're going to scrap the competition and buy Nokia instead! :D Please keep some suggestions coming in about how you would like to see the bounty split. I might run a poll on it if the discussion stays quiet, it's just to have some sort of consencus on it.

Thanks again Lukash, for getting our details on the Czech website. :cool:

Gosh.. i had no idea we weren't the first! Nobody wanted to tell us until now and spoil our fun I guess :p Well.. ok we're not the first one but we're the next first one hehe

Thanks for sending another mail. He's posted today in the forums, hopefully he's just behind on his mails :confused:

I wonder if there's some way we can push it, perhaps in the community section or brainstorm section? TBH I never venture much into there, Im not sure if a maemo.org paypal counts.. I guess it might. What do you think?

I agree we need to turn pledges into donations as soon as possible, I'd like to get something sorted or moving by the end of the month, else we'll do it privately just to keep the show on the road.. so to speak :) End of the month might help people too with pay days etc.

By the way, do you think we should set up a maemo.org competition repository for the entrants' applications?

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

I would say no. Don't make another repository, we already have the good -devel and -testing repository that would be fine enough.
Moreover in the best case all this applications will be available for the community through to the official "extras" repository one day... ;)

Just my opinion.

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

how about if somebody made a proper port of open-rp for n900?

http://code.google.com/p/open-rp/

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

I think that's a great idea, add yourself down for it :)

Im sure you know there has already been some work done on this

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43625
http://code.google.com/p/open-rp/issues/detail?id=26#c5

Get the slow framerate solved and you might have a winner! :cool:

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

Sorry to be late responding to paypal requests.

Nokia was open to the idea of a community paypal account but asked me some time ago to put it on hold (in hindsight, due to MeeGo). I have proposed it again and am awaiting an answer. I'm not hopeful though because the Nokia Maemo team has been hit by budget contraints.

If worst comes to worst I will go ahead and volunteer to act as the "bag holder". I have a special paypal account created for community work a few years ago; if it's still usable I'll provide the details. If not I may relent and use my personal account.

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

Thanks for the update Texrat, fingers crossed that Nokia relents and allows a Maemo account - ofcourse we would try to work this so it would be at no cost to the Maemo team - but I understand these things are sometimes not as easy to explain and arrange as we'd like.

The community work one sounds like a goer too if it's still available. The good thing is we have a few options if the Maemo one falls through.

i've "reported" the first post to get the title changed, hopefully it doesnt put me on the naughty step
Edit: Wow changed already! Speedy Gonzales is modding tonight.

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

It may be too late but what about a category for libraries.

As fun as a game might be, how much more fun would it be if someone ports over the native binaries or does the other work involved to port java monkey engine or ruby game/gosu. Open gl es ports would be my top vote, but yet they wouldn't really count as an executable app. Also maybe in the future best kernel mod??
Best alternate os... It's hard to say how to organize it all, I'm just tossing this up in the air as food for thought.


Maybe something to think of for the next round.
Anyhow thanks for organizing this.

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

Actually libraries are very welcome, in fact when I was thinking this comp up I was wishing someone would make a head tracking library for it. Almost any bit of code is welcome, it's just a matter of squeezing it into a category - if the other 5 dont fit then the "Other" category is a catch all :)

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

Damn! If nokia wants to sponsor this it will make the compitition much harder for me!

But on the other side probebly it will come more and better apps so I guess I have to thank Nokia for this amazing support!

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

lol.. well they say nothing worthwhile was ever easy :p

We'd be very glad to have you aboard Lullen, feel free to sign in the list of participants (wiki) at any time. If you're not sure of your project name yet, just put 'tbd' (to be determined) in there and update it later :)

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

It's a bit quiet today, so I thought I would pop in. In other words, *bump*!

We've been going just over a week now, 16 projects are listed on the wiki, $365 of bounty pledges, and we've had 1669 views of the page - so not a bad start I reckon :cool:

Let's hope we can keep it going and build on it :)

One thing bothering me is I don't see too many beginners getting involved. That's one of the main aims of the competition, anyone have any ideas to achieve that?

I have an hour or two before I hit the sack, I might write up a short beginner tutorial following on from the good works of mikec and fatalsaint.. hmm need ideas..