[maemo-developers] callingallinnovators maemo winner??

[From: ronan.maclaverty at nokia.com]

>Subject: Re: callingallinnovators maemo winner??
>
>On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 21:20, ds <ds2 at physik.de> wrote:
>> If I remember correctly, there was a price for the best maemo app
>> in callingallinnovators.
>>
>> But I can not find the winner on
>> http://www.callingallinnovators.com/default.aspx
>
>I was at Nokia World during the Calling all Innovators final. There
>were three applications in the overall shortlist which are available
>on Maemo:
>
>  * Morpho Quick Panorama
>  * Ansel-A
>  * Angry Birds
>
>No mention of the $50,000 Maemo prize was made; and two of the above
>are also available for Symbian. Ansel-A was involved in the on-sight
>hackfest so a Symbian/Qt version has been started (was demoed on an
>N8).
>
>The N900 prize seems to have been silently dropped - unless it's
>awarded to the best N900 app in the main categories. However, the
>majority are from relatively large commercial companies; a $50k award
>to them is nice, but hardly game changing.
>
>I've CCed Quim in case he can find out more.
>

After some checking with the organizers I understand that the story is this:

The N900 prize money will be awarded, but not right away.  The reason is that the jury is still deciding on some of the sub-categories and they want to announce the all the winners together.  Does that make sense?

I have prompted them for a date, hopefully soon.