We’re starting today the first eyeOS Community Programming Contest , an eyeOS Applications creation International challenge. The eyeOS community will select the finalists and there’re some interesting prizes for the winners, which will be selected by the Jury, that includes people who founded eyeOS, community leaders and external people related to the Free Software world. Participating is free, and the registration process starts today and will end on July 1st. If you plan to participate, subscribe yourself today through a simple form (you’ll still have time to decide which app do you want to create and submit).
The participants will be able to submit their apps from August 1st to August 20th, and the winners (after the community selection process to determinate the finalists) will be announced on September 21st. The eyeOS team will not retain any kind of right / copyright on the submitted apps, and participants will be invited to continue and maintain their apps once the Contest has closed.
This contest will be celebrated every year from now, and every year it will have an special rule that will make it different from the rest. This year, the special rule is that the applications’s weight (including the source code, images and everything) will have a maximum permitted of 100KB.
All the information (as well as the Prizes, Bases and Rules) can be read on the Contest main page. We strongly want to invite you all to participate. It’s a great moment to join this contest with the today’s presented eyeDesigner to quickly build app’s forms, and submit your lightweight eyeOS Applications to the contest. You can win a netbook, a network hard drive or a flat 20” panel. And for sure you’ll have a lot of fun trying to win them.
Happy Cloud Computing!
Do plugins count?
Is there any problem if it requires a modification to eyeOS?
@niku: point 4 of “Bases and rules” at http://wiki.eyeos.org/Community_Programming_Contest_2009
@Daniel Sousa: There is no rule, which disallowes such modifications, but to be serious I’d prefer to create a second service or library instead. You told me, that you want to write a new eyeBoard. So you could simply call it eyeBoard2 and if the eyeOS Team decides to integrate it into the base eyeOS system its name can be changed afterwards.
Best regards,
Lars
The modification to eyeOS I want to do is not for eyeBoard, I’ll apply with more than one app.
Hi
It seems to be a cool contest.
I was wondering if using 3rd party libraries, something like unity3d, for instance, is allowed.
The rule:
“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.”
Can we release Flash, or Unity3D as Open Source?
thanks in advance
Sorry, I’ve written something in the place of my name…
I got to know about the contest through FISL 10
Hi
It seems to be a cool contest.
I was wondering if using 3rd party libraries, something like unity3d, for instance, is allowed.
The rule:
“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.”
Can we release Flash, or Unity3D as Open Source?
thanks in advance
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I’m really like the Developer Manual; gives a really good overview to the eyeOS framework. Kudos to the team and their work on the document.
Peace!
What version of PHP is going to be run on the server? On that note, will points be deducted if we use, say, PHP 5 specific features?
Jason,
We’ll be sure that every app will work correctly on the server in order for the community to test it better. We could even allow to use self-hosted eyeOS servers to make the demos as long as we can reproduce the same app in a private server (to check the total size and that every source used is included).
–Pau
Alright, good, that helps me scale down my code size, and should give me more room to work in. Thanks!
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