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by JohnFlux on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @00:40

It's great to do competitions, but I really don't get why this is a competition.

In the last competition, the winners were people that had already spent a year or so on their app. What's the point in having the competition open for four months when the winner is pretty much decided before hand?

Everybody knew that marble was going to win, before the competition even started. Why not just skip the time period thing, and just go directly to awarding prizes to the best Qt program that currently exists?

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Re: Contest
by Witold Wysota on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @01:13

Hi John,

Not referring to your doubts and not defending people who spent their time evaluating all the entries let's skip to the good part.

I have a separate little contest for you (and actually everybody else who wants to play with us). Nominate winners (including 2nd and 3rd places) in each category here within this week before nominees start being announced and if you manage to get 50% right (including the order), you'll get a contest gadget (it's not yet decided what it is going to be, probably a t-shirt) and a nice book. If you fail, you will not accuse people regarding this disagreement ever again.

If someone else wins I will throw in a t-shirt from last year's contest as well If I remember correctly John already received one after the contest, but if he wants another one, that can be achieved too. If there are more people reaching the 50% limit, the one who makes the highest result gets the book and a gadget and the rest of "TOP 5" receive the gadget only. Is that a fair deal?

Of course everybody is invited to participate in the "big" (aka programming) contest. A brief list of prizes should be announced soon, so get something to eat (nuts are good for your brain activities) and start thinking about neat ideas for entries! Especially participation in Plasmoid and Newcomer categories is strongly encouraged!

With kind regards,
W.

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Re: Contest
by John Tapsell on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @03:07

Awesome - I'll give it a try *grin*. I'll wait to see what the submissions are

Btw, I didn't get a t-shirt from the last contest. I didn't get a mention or even an email or anything. Poor me, hehe :)

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Re: Contest
by Witold Wysota on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @05:01

Actually you have to guess the winners before you know the submissions... That's the whole point of knowing who wins before the contest has even started, isn't it?

As for the shirt, a medium sized t-shirt was sent to the address you provided. I sent it myself half a year ago. It didn't bounce back, so either it was lost or you missed it somehow...

Cheers!

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Re: Contest
by lol on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @05:10

oh, the irony!
rofl

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Re: Contest
by mimoune djouallah on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @09:15

and they want to remove the dot comments, i love this community

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Re: Contest
by Torsten Rahn on Wednesday 09/Apr/2008, @02:57

We don't want to remove the dot comments. However there have been people recently who have abused the comment area for their own agenda. Of course we value feedback and consider freedom of speech essential. We need to find a better way to deal with abuse while preserving the ability to provide constructive feedback and freedom.

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Re: Contest
by David Johnson on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @09:37

Marble the application won the application category, but Marble the widget did not win in the widget category (although it did come close).

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Re: Contest
by Torsten Rahn on Tuesday 08/Apr/2008, @14:37

Then you knew better than I did ;-)
Between the announcement of the contest and the day we delivered the application to the jury, Marble had significantly improved (in terms of features as well as code polishing). The contest did encourage us to put even more work into the development of Marble and has been a significant milestone for us. Also don't forget that there were even new pretty cool apps (like the one Jos came up with).

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