Announcing the Ubuntu App Showdown Contest!

Today we are announcing the Ubuntu App Showdown; an exciting contest to create an app from scratch for Ubuntu in three weeks, and delivered in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

The best apps will win some awesome prizes from System76 and Qt including a System76 Gazelle Professional laptop and Nokia N9 phone for the gold prize, a System76 Lemur Ultra laptop and Nokia N9 phone for the silver prize and a Nokia N9 phone for the bronze prize.

After the contest the community will vote on all of the apps in the Ubuntu Software Centre and there are another three Nokia N9 phones up for grabs!

The Judges

Completed entries in The Ubuntu App Showdown will be judged by our esteemed panel of judging submissions on Appearance, Stability, Platform Integration, Innovation and Scratching an Itch. The panel includes:

Matthew Paul Thomas – Canonical Design Team
Jono Bacon – Ubuntu Community Manager
Joey-Elijah Sneddon – OMG! Ubuntu! Founder and Chief Editor
David Planella – App Developer Community Liaison
Bhavani Shankar – Application Review Board
Jonathan Thomas – OpenShot Lead Developer

If you are not a programmer and want to share some ideas for cool apps, be sure to add and vote apps on our reddit page.

How To Enter

The contest is free to enter and open to everyone.

The three week period starts on the Mon 18th June 2012!

Find out more and enter the Ubuntu App Showdown

Somepony

Nokia phone my a**. Today Nokia killed their Linux R&D.

clem11388

Main thing would be, can this phone run other OS’s? Such as WebOS, Ubuntu Mobile, and possibly a completely FOSS version of Android?
Prhone

The Nokia N9 is awesome! It’s too bad about nokia, but it doesn’t change anything about this phone.
Hmmmmmmm

I think that is strange as well. lol

Lucas Betschart

Why don’t you allow every language & toolkit in this contest?
I aint going to learn Python/GTK/Quickly when I already can do everything with the superior Qt/C++ combo..

http://www.jorgecastro.org/ Jorge Castro

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/06/ubuntu-app-showdown-no-longer-requires-quickly/
jonobacon

We now don’t require Quickly – see http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/06/ubuntu-app-showdown-no-longer-requires-quickly/ for details.

Chuck

I thought quickly was just a template manager and command launcher, isn’t it possible to create quickly templates for Qt/C++, Gtk/Vala, etc?

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com David Planella

You absolutely can! Check this out: http://askubuntu.com/questions/136850/how-to-create-a-new-quickly-application-template/

Mr. Pedant

What’s the difference between an ‘esteemed pan’ and an ‘esteemed panel’?

http://www.mhall119.com/ Michael Hall

Fixed it, thanks

Guest25

Does the app really need to be started from scratch on June 18th? What if it was partially developed, but not released?

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com David Planella

There is nothing wrong in reusing old bits of code to a certain degree, but the app itself should be started from scratch, so that you don’t have an unfair advantage over other participants. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/151196/can-i-use-old-code-by-myself-to-build-on-for-my-entry-in-the-ubuntu-app-showdown

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