http://openclipart.org/media/files/ben/9651
Some updates to the first programming competition for Openmoko phones where the participants are given the task to write a podcast/audiobook player for Openmoko phones.
First things first: Michael ‘Mickey’ Lauer, the leader of the FSO project and a former Openmoko employee and Marco ‘Treviño’ Trevisan are now members of the Jury. Thanks Mickey & Marco for supporting the competition this way!
Based on the community feedback we did some small changes / additions in the rules:
- The licence required is now GPL v2 or newer. This permits the usage of GPL v3, as requested.
- The community can vote for it’s favourite project but the winner is chosen by the jury.
- Everyone who want to support this can now donate money to be payed the way the Jury decides, see Cofundos. We hope this will inspire more people to participate and write better solutions to choose the winner from.
- Because of the changes in the rules, the (soft) deadline to register was extended to March 15th so everyone interested have enough time to register.
For full rules, see the original announcement.
If you support the competition, let everyone know! We’d like to see many people interested and this way get encouraged to launch second part after we’ve finished this knowing that there will be interested programmers who will participate. We’re also happy to get feedback why you think the idea is/is not good and what you’d like to be the topic in the second competition or what do you think of the rules, for example should also other programming languages be allowed.
Keep up the good work!
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I don’t really understand why the contest should be limited to GPLv2/3, while there are a bunch of other free and FSF-approved free software licenses.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
mmmmh and why isn’t it possible to develop it with python?
If you write (or have written) program and licence it under GPL-Compatible license, then you can join our content and say that it is licensed under GPL (this is what ‘gpl-compatible’ means).
We prefer GPL over any other OpenSourceLicenses.
I would like to take part in a competition… But I can not find your e-mail here…
@Wilder: Great! Our addresses are visible in the oribinal announcement, read it here: http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/announcing-the-first-programming-competition-for-openmoko-phones/
– but this comment is enough, now we know that you’re planning to participate. Good luck!!