Nathraiben | # 351 | 2010-07-20, 16:27 | Report

Hehe, the one inside the app is just a placeholder with 3 fake titles and the corresponding fake sections...

If I had any actual readme, I would have posted it in the thread or (if I had found the volunteer post) sent it to you to correct my lacking English. But, alas, no readme so far thanks to my inherent dislike for writing documentation.

andy80 | # 352 | 2010-07-20, 18:37 | Report

After sending an email on Jul, 3rd to maemo-community mailing list and having no reply at all from the organizers of this contest I'll try to ask here (even if I don't think it's the right place to put this kind of informations):

1) Submitted entries should be accompanied by a forum post and/or a text file with the authors email, PayPal address, the name of the software and a brief description of the software. This file should be called "entry.txt"
What is the right section of the forum that contains all submissions?
Please don't point me here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53112 it's a 30 pages thread and I don't think there are 30 pages submissions.

2) Who do I have to send our emails, paypal account ecc... to? I don't want to publish these informations in a public thread, I'd like to send these only to the organizers of the contest.

3) Who are the organizers/responsables of the contest? I cannot find them here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Coding_Competition_1

4) Where exactly the votation will take place? Who can vote? Which are the criteria of voting?

I think that an information like this should have been mandatory for a contest.

I felt quite lost about this contest, because I tried asking about this lot of times in #maemo and nobody knew anything about it.

Regards.

shapeshifter | # 353 | 2010-07-20, 18:58 | Report

kojacker, I took the liberty of adding myself on the wiki page. If anything is wrong with what I did, feel free to scrap whatever I did. I've sent you a PM btw with more info.

zehjotkah | # 354 | 2010-07-20, 20:20 | Report

I'm sorry for the inconvenience, I should have read that on the mailing list... *checkmymails*

You can send these information directly to kojacker. He is the organizer, I am the treasurer.

kojacker is your man

as said...

here in the forum using the built-in voting system. I think for each category there will be one thread to vote afaik.
Every maemo.org member can vote but only actual users who have tested the apps should vote (so they know what they're voting about).

again, sorry for the inconvenience..
hope that helped a bit.

destroid | # 355 | 2010-07-20, 21:14 | Report

I want to take part in the in the N900 Coding Competition with my game.
Game's name: Destroid
Category: Games.
Forum thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...315#post758315
How can I contact kojacker? email? private message?

andy80 | # 356 | 2010-07-20, 22:05 | Report

I've no PM. How can I contact kojacker?

kojacker | # 357 | 2010-07-20, 23:41 | Report

Dammm!! It's madness on here and on my pms! What are you all doing to me! It's 12.30am and you're destroying my social life! It's great though

So much to answer.. I'll work my way through it, but first a big thank you to our new Bounty heroes! Step forward and receive your medals of honour mobiledivide, Slocan, SallyJane, and Smoku

Cosimo has the spreadsheet but if my maths is right, and it's usually not , we're now up to a magic €566! Which is approximately $731 US wotsits!! How good is that?!

And we still have pledges that have yet to be filled, hopefully more still to come

Also big thanks to Alek, Heli, hgh, Carol, Slocan, Damian, Rob1n, and matrim for sending me their entry pms. Im starting to run out of pm space, I better get pruning If by any chance you should find your pm to me bounced back because inbox full please resend later.. I want to make sure I get everybodys

Ok now onto the questions.. I heard someone has basically given me a kicking in one of the posts so Im not looking forward to coming across that one..

Right back at yah! Thanks for entering

Everyone can enter right up until the closing minute, as long as your entry is on the wiki on time you're basically golden. But yeah you dont have ages.. go go gadget coding!!

Wednesday night.. wait this is wednesday.. blooming 'eck it's tonight!!

Good work lukash Try and get me a good write up for it Good means brief as possible haha

You are quick! If all goes well and you want to enter it or VectorMine, please update the wiki participants list to let us know before the deadline

Pretty much, a screenshot too would be nice. We won't sweat the details just yet, we can always update the voting post if info is not complete. Give me enough to get you entered in the first instance

You're a true programmer, Nathraiben! Writing docs is definitely the suckiest of all sucky things

I wonder if there's any limit to post size on here... onwards we go..

You did exactly the right thing shapeshifter. To anyone who wants to enter, stick your details on the wiki page If you dunno how, pm me and I'll do it for you It's all in the instructions.

You can contact me right here, pm, however u like! Or via spiritual medium, but here is more consistent and much cheaper We'd love to have Destroid in the comp, moar games! Moar!! Add yourself on the wiki and you're in Follow the instructions in the 'rules' bit and you're good to go Welcome aboard!

Ok.. I guess this is the one I get the kicking in..

Sorry Andy, Im not on the maemo-community mailing list. Please understand this is not an official maemo.org contest, it's users here trying to run one. And we're amateurs at it, it's the first time and we're feeling our way in the dark a little. As I said before many times in this thread, the organisers running the next comp will learn the mistakes of this one By the way, this is exactly the right place to ask questions, that's the whole purpose of this thread

We're trying to keep it simple, add your submission details on the wiki page, send the details to me, and upload your code onto the repositories if possible.

Nobody wants you to write private and confidential details in an open forum. Most people will be pm'ing me directly with these details. But, as stated in the rules, we can collect the paypal email later.. it's no problem. Im not trying to harvest private data here! It's simply to send any winnings out quicker, but we can collect it later.. no sweat

You can blame me for it all if you like

It's been said before on this thread that it's going to be a vote on this forum, a thread for each category. Anyone that wishes to vote will need a maemo.org account to do so.

It's all there somewhere, but I take your point. There's no doubt things could be organised better, and I'm sorry you were not able to easily find the info you were looking for. So apologies for these failings because they land at my door. But we're trying my best.

I'm afraid you've been a little unlucky because it probably wasn't the best place to ask. But we've had 5,317 views on the wiki so far so I'd have thought a few of them could have pointed you in the right direction

Any questions please bring them on this thread and I'll do my best to answer. You're very welcome to enter the competition if you'd still like to But, please, come into the competition with a spirit of forgiveness because not everything is going to be smooth or perfect, but we're getting there

I've just received your pm, thanks for entering

Thanks zehjotkah for fielding that post, you're the man too! haha

How's this for a reply? Long enough for y'all?

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benlau | # 358 | 2010-07-21, 00:38 | Report

By the way , there have "Beginner Entry" column , what is the beginner contest about?

Laughing Man | # 359 | 2010-07-21, 00:45 | Report

Ah that explains it. I never actually read it. I'll get started writing one this Friday then.

Edit: Donated to the contest.

kojacker | # 360 | 2010-07-21, 00:48 | Report

Ahhh.. thanks for reminding me Ben

Well the whole point of the competition was to get more people either doing more coding or starting to get involved with coding for the N900. We're going to run a beginner's contest in parallel with the main coding competition. It's a smaller competition and only for folks who are creating their first N900 applications, not for veterans, and anyone eligible who wishes to enter can let me know by adding a "Y" to that column. These projects will automatically be entered into both contests, the main coding one and the side beginners one. I hope that makes sense

I did post last night that I hoped to see atleast 3 "Y"s today and you all didnt disappoint, we got quite a few so far - amandalam, lullen, Naithraiben, andy80, vwrap, and avis.. but it'll be cool to see more

I still got to sort out a winner's bounty for this, it will be separate to the coding competition bounty and prizes.. actually it'll be coming out of my poor overstretched credit card I originally hoped to offer some of Fake's lazer cut stands but his online shop has not reopened yet.. I'm still mulling this over.. I'll need to get my skates on.

Thanks Laughing Man! As soon as Cosimo confirms the amount left after paypal swipes their bit, I'll have the list updated with your name on it

By the way, digitalsurgeon if you are reading this your Easy Wallpaper entry is still showing as "Utilities & Destop"! There is no such category, you have to choose one or the other. If it doesnt get updated in time I'm going to put it in desktop just so i dont have to disqualify it, so please update the entry with which category you wish to contest in

Edit: Ok, here's the Beginner's Competition Bounty and Prize I'm offering.

1st Prize is $50 to your paypal
2nd Prize is $30 to your paypal
3rd Prize is $20 to your paypal

In addition, I'll also buy and post to the first prize winner a choice of either the following two books to help develop their coding:

or

So one's PyQt and the other C++/Qt, the winner can choose depending on which poison they prefer The second one's not released until July 9th so they'd need wait an extra week or so..

Sound ok for prizes?

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