Community Programming Contest 2009

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Introduction

Welcome to the eyeOS Community Programming Contest 2009!

The challenge consists in creating simple eyeOS Applications (max. 100KB uncompressed), using the eyeOS Toolkit. Participating is completely free and there are some interesting prizes for the winners. The finalists will be selected by the eyeOS Community and the 3 winners will be announced on September 21st.

Everyone can participate, both individually or in group, and everyting you need to do in order to participate is to add yourself to the list of participants filling this simple form (you can register until July 1st 2009, and submit your applications from August 1st to August 20th). Everything you'll be asked for will be your e-mail address to send you notifications for this contest (after that, your e-mail won't be stored or used for anything else than the eyeOS CPC09). Note that you can submit a maximum of 3 different apps for the contest. Each app must be from a different category than the rest.


Inscribe yourself now!


Bases and rules

  1. Everyone can participate, regardless of the country you live in.
  2. The application, in order to be accepted, must be Open Source and the author will have to publish it in eyeOS-Apps before the development deadline. The version which will be evaluated will be the last one available on eyeOS-Apps on the development end day. This different licenses are accepted for the submitted applications: GPL / AGPL / LGPL.
  3. The whole uncompressed application, including source code, images, and everything that the application has on the package must not be larger than 100KB.
  4. The application can not consist of an Iframe loading a third party app/website, and must be entirely built with the eyeOS Toolkit. If third party add-ons are used (e.g. Flash or Java scripts) they must be also released as Open Source together with their sources.
  5. Third party add-ons (like libraries) can be used as long as they are released under one of the accepted licenses, and thinking that their weight will be included in the max.100KB rule.
  6. The application must be created specially for the Contest. Applications already released in eyeOS-Apps or other eyeOS community apps websites can not be accepted. If you have been bulding an app recently but it has not been still published you can use it.
  7. A maximum of 3 different apps per participant is allowed. Note that only one app per category is permitted (e.g. you can submit 2 apps, a Multimedia one, and an Internet one, but not 2 Multimedia ones).
  8. The application must be inside one of the following categories:
    • Desktop
    • System Administration
    • Internet
    • Multimedia
    • Office
    • Education
    • Business
    • Science
    • Games


Prizes

  • Winner: A Dell Mini 10v with Ubuntu (Intel®Atom®Processor Z520, 1GB RAM, 10.1" Widescreen Display, Intel GMA500) + An eyeOS Shirt of your size
  • 1st Runner-up: A Network Storage Hard Drive (LaCie Network Space, 1TB) + An eyeOS Shirt of your size
  • 2nd Runner-up: A 20" Dell flat panel (S2009W 20" HD Widescreen Monitor, 1600x900, 5MS response) + An eyeOS Shirt of your size


For everyone who submits an application: Some eyeOS Stickers (ask them at stickers-request@eyeos.org after making your submission). Note that if there are better/improved models than the specified above by the closing date, newer models will be used as Prizes, only if the provide better technical features than the listed here.


Timeline

  • Registration is open from June 3rd to July 1st. Everyone who wants to participate must be registered here.
  • The application submit deadline is August 20th, and the Applications Submission form will be online from August 1st.
  • All applications submited will be published (inside a sandbox so everyone can test them) on August 25th.
  • The voting process for the finalists will remain open from August 25th to September 14th.
  • The winners will be announced the September 21st and the awards sent to the winner's desired direction during that week.


Jury

The eyeOS CPC2009 jury that will choose the winners from the finalists selected by the eyeOS Community is composed with people who founded eyeOS, people from eyeOS Community and external people to eyeOS related to the Free Software world. They are:

  • Jose Carlos Norte, creator of the eyeOS 1.x Toolkit, Kernel and internal architecture.
  • Marc Cercós, founder and designer who thought and draw every single version of eyeOS since its first days.
  • Anaël Ollier, computer science engineer of IUP Paul Sabatier and leader of eyeOS France Community since 2007.
  • Lars Knickrehm, community member who gave name to eyeOS between 1.6 and 1.8 and has been leading the community forums for years.
  • Ricardo Galli, doctor of computer science at the University of the Balearic Islands, where he teaches operating system design. He is a speaker for the Free Software Foundation and a free software activist.
  • Jorge Izquierdo, computer science teacher and one of the first persons to propose, imagine and write about an eyeOS Programming Challenge. Interested specially in the educational face of eyeOS.


How to participate

The first thing to do if you want to enter to the challenge is to fill this simple form. We will publish a form to submit the applications (for those registered users that are participating int he contest) on August 1st.


I need Help to start!

If you're new to eyeOS and would like to participate into the contest, feel free to use all this material to get started into eyeOS. Remember that you also have the Forums, Mailing lists, IRC channel and wiki to ask for help:


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