2008-04-07

QtCentre Programming Contest 2008

One of the better parts of being a member of the QtCentre administration team is that you get the opportunity to run the annual programming contest. In the first stage, we discussed how to pitch it this year. Last year we tried to divide the entries between developer apps, end user apps, libs, etc. This year we 're trying something different. The categories this year are: collaboration, education, project management, automation, demo, plasmoid and newcomer. If you are curious about the details, look no futher than here. I will discuss our thoughts when choosing these categories later on.

In the previous days we reached the next stage of the preparations. I got to talk to lots of interesting sponsors and partners. The nice thing to notice the all the positive feedback that we got. This year, the sponsors making the contest possible are: Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Integrated Computer Solutions Inc., Trolltech ASA, BitRock, Thorsen Consulting, Apress and basysKom. (Yes Apress are donating some copies of my book, the Foundations of Qt Development).

Now, I'm eager for one of the best stages of helping out with the contest - seeing the contestants and trying them out.

4 Comments:

At 9:07 PM, Anonymous Giovanni Venturi said...

Do you know what will Trolltech give to the winners? I didn't find this information on their contest website.

 
At 10:21 PM, Anonymous wysota said...

@giovanni: We have been promised mobile devices (Neo 1973, as far as I know) and "some books" :)

The list of prizes will start being filled in upcoming days when I find time and info to do that. Currently I can only say the list of prizes is filled with sillicon and paper based items :)

I strongly encourage to participate in the contest. Even if you don't have an idea for an application, visit the contest forum and ask others for ideas. It's worth it!

 
At 7:11 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

why contest results aren't yet published on the site?

 
At 11:28 AM, Blogger Johan Thelin said...

I've just published the annoucement of the winners - it will be up in a couple of minutes.

The reason? I have a life outside QtCentre which needs attention from time to time :-)

 

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