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2010
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Plasma Javascript Jam Session ContestWe are pleased to announce the Plasma Javascript Jam Session. This friendly competition will reward creators of the most original, interesting and beautiful Plasma widgets (Plasmoids) written in Javascript with some great prizes and community recognition. Anyone (except members of the judging panel) may participate in this open challenge that starts on Friday February 12th, 2010. The rules are simple:
Plasmoids will be judged based on the following criteria:
The prizes up for grabs are really exciting:
In addition to these over-all prizes, three bragging-rights titles are up for grabs:
Additionally, everyone who submits a working Javascript Plasmoid that meets the contest requirements will receive a personalized certificate of participation by email. All submissions will be published for download on kde-look.org after the results are announced on April 9th. Contestants will also be able to take advantage of training and support from the KDE Plasma team! Training sessions will be held on Friday the 12th, Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th of February at 16:00 UTC on irc.freenode.net in the #plasma-training channel. Each session, led by Plasma developers, will cover the Simplified Javascript Plasmoid API in detail along with Plasmoid development tips and tricks. In addition, contestants are welcome to ask questions and solicit development advice on #plasma on irc.freenode.net and plasma-devel@kde.org, the official Plasma development mailing list, during the competition. We won't write your Plasmoid for you, but each contestant will have access to the same level of Q&A support that all Plasmoid developers normally have. Helpful reference materials can also be found in the Plasma tutorials section on Techbase as well as in the KDE Examples module. The judging panel will be comprised of:
Panel members will rate each entry individually in each of the four categories. The scores from the five judges will then be added up to create the final results. The contest timeline is as follows:
Finally: a huge round of "Thank-You!"s to Nokia for donating the N900, KDE e.V. whose support makes this event possible and Nuno Pinheiro and Sean Wilson for artwork. More information along with the official rules can be found on the Plasma website which is is devoted to the Javascript Jam for the duration of the contest. After the Javascript Jam concludes, the Plasma website will relaunch with new content and an updated design. |
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Comments
Clarification of the competition rules?
This is probably nit picking, but should the start of the second paragraph read:
Otherwise I read this as implying that because the KDE community are listed as part of the judging panel they are ineligible for the contest - which I doubt is the case! :-)
Pretty awesome
Wow.. just have to say. This is a pretty awesome competition, with some neat details included :D
Hi! I downloaded an article
Hi! I downloaded an article from torrents http://www.torrentbasket.com I've come to the following conclusions on reading it. I would like to see interactive desktop with widgets. Like fast way to add a notes (not just paste text to desktop when desktop is unlocked!) or mindmaps. Something similar what Basket has (or if someone would get basket 2.0 started someday it would help many other. It just is not about Plasma and javascript!) but for desktop. It would be great to just pop-up the dashboard and click somewhere and start typing. Then drag a nice lines around all typed notes and get a mindmap from it.