Maemo.org Coding Competition 2012
Introduction
Categories
Competition Timeline
How to Submit an Application
To enter, simply submit your application via the competition submission page available at http://competition.meetmeego.org/ and align it to one of the main categories[1]. You will also need to provide some details for the judging thread, including at least 2 screenshots, a brief description of your application, and an outline of what work you personally completed on it.
Authors who mark their entry as 'beginner' will also have their application automatically entered into the beginner category.
Only applications entered through the submission page will be counted as valid entries in the competition. New participants are welcome to join at any time up until the closing date.
Prizes
Donations for the Community Prize Fund
The following list shows all of the donations and pledges made to the community prize fund so far. There is no fixed amount - all donations are very welcome - and will be accepted from now until the closing date of the competition.
To donate via PayPal, just click on the following link and specify the amount you want to donate.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FTU62WATF94BW
Please don't forget to include your maemo.org username in the PayPal message to be mentioned in the following list. If no maemo.org username is included, the donation will be marked as anonymous.
Our special thanks to the following people for their generous contributions:
Date | Nickname | Amount (gross) in € | PayPal fee in € | Amount (net) in € | Paid |
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24/5/2012 | kojacker | 50,00 | tbc | ||
25/5/2012 | Wonko | 40,00 | 1,11 | 38,89 | }
RulesTo ensure that the event runs properly, there are a few essential rules:
THE SUBMISSIONS WEBSITE HAS STILL TO BE UPDATED. PLEASE DON'T SUBMIT APPS JUST YET!
VotingThe voting frontend, the webinterface via which you enter your vote, is the same as for the Maemo Council elections. So you can establish an order among the participating applications indicating your preferences. Thereby, the first choice has the most impact. With following choices the impact gets less and less. The last choice has the least impact. Counting VotesAfter the voting period has finished the votes are counted. The ranking order of participants is determined based on all valid votes. The tool used for counting the votes is OpenSTV. We use OpenSTV version 1.6.1-1 which can be publicly downloaded from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/openstv The openstv executable used is extracted from the *.deb package. For each category, the ranking of candiates is determined individually. As general "vote counting system" Fractional Transfer Single Transferable Vote (FTSTV) is used. FTSTV, however, does not provide a way for determining the order of participants out of the box. For determining the ranking among the participating applications the following approach is used:
For automating this counting process the following script is used election=$1 tail -n 1 $election | sed 's/"//g' >/tmp/result for i in $(seq $(expr $(head -c 2 $election) - 1)) do openstv-run-election -r CsvReport -s $i FTSTV $election \ | awk -F, '/Elected/ { print $1 }' \ | while read w do if ! grep -q "$w" /tmp/result then echo $w >> /tmp/result break fi done done awk 'BEGIN { i = 1; } { print i, $0; i++; }' /tmp/result | sed 's/"//g' This script should be saved to a file named "results" and can be called as follows: for i in *.blt; do sh results $i; done Assuming the script + openstv-run-election are in the same directory as the result files (the *.blt files) for all categories and the current directory is this directory, this way of calling the script will perform the counting for all categories. The only thing that may be changed in the above script is the passage "openstv-run-election" for adding a proper path to the actual location of the OpenSTV executable, e.g., to point to "/usr/bin/openstv-run-election". Aside from this exception the script must not be changed at all. However it is still possible to also do the vote counting manually using the described process. Vote counting process, OpenSTV version used, and counting script are all publicly available so everyone can perform the voting and verify the final official results. App Developer ResourcesGetting started with Maemo application developmentThe Nokia Qt SDK is the official set of tools with everything needed to design and create applications for the N900 [2]. The development wiki is a great place to start, it contains lots of code examples and development guides. The "Windows Python and Qt in 30 mins"[3] thread is a great PyQt tutorial for beginners and will have you coding your first app in minutes, and here's a link to a tutorial from Linuxuser.co.uk[4]. The 'Developer' forum on maemo.org[5] is an excellent resource to find answers and ask questions of your own. FAQSpreading the wordQ: Which Twitter Hashtag to use for this Competition?
Application requirementsQ: It is obligatory to code in Qt?
App/Application submission processQ: Where to submit my application?
Q: Updates allowed during the competition?I have a new app in the repository, I am considering to apply for the contest.. If i submit it now, will that prevent me to upload further versions to the repos or Ovi/Nokia Store? (As it's a work in progress)
Q: Who selects the category of the application?Will the developers select the category when they join the competition or will someone sort it into the correct category before the voting begins?
Application proposalhttp://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Apps_Missing Desirable apps missing from Nokia platforms DiscussionPlease participate in the discussion at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83761 ResourcesContactYou still have questions? Contact us!
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