Teams will definitely have a bigger advantage than an individual. Software is all about team work.
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Eduardo Gonçalves < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris, if what you are saying is true, I'm even at a disadvantage, because > development, I had the idea, worked, tried and develop all documentation > everything alone. > > I do not think that the teams will have advantages not, in fact I think it > is he who is alone should have developed a differentiated evaluation, for > several reasons: > -- Lack of time > -- Lack of others to discuss the idea, improved interface > -- Solitary research in forums and websites of Android > -- Low financial investment > > They are much more difficulties we have, that the teams and companies do > not have, or at least should not have! > > See, please: > http://healthmobile.blogspot.com > > Regard > > Eduardo Dutra Gonçalves > > > > On 5/7/08, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I think a lot of winners will be teams, but not individuals. It is > > very rare for one person to have the ability to pull together every > > piece of an application on their own and do a good job. Everyone on > > our team had a very different background and I think it allowed us to > > build a much better application (not saying we are going to win by any > > means, just that we would have been much worse off otherwise) - one > > person had front end interface skills, one person did UI coding, one > > person did server side coding, one person did non-technical product > > development, and one person managed the process. > > > > I think the problem with individuals is that you might get an engineer > > who thinks they are building the best thing ever, but then it is so > > unusable to the average Joe they miss what is really under the hood. > > On the other hand, you might have the business types who have a great > > vision without the technical skills to pull it off. If you look at > > the old posts on the board, you can see a lot of evidence of this - > > both from people who recognized this was the case, and others who were > > to narcissistic to see a problem. > > > > Companies often lose out on innovation, but think about their > > resources. > > > > So I predict most winners will be in teams first, corporations second, > > and individuals third. > > > > On May 6, 5:48 pm, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I disagree with you. I would be really surprised if most of the > > > winners were not individuals and small teams. Why? Because most of the > > > new ideas come from individuals and small teams in my opinion. > > > Assuming that the distribution of good ideas is the same among > > > individuals and corporations then I think we should have more > > > individuals (and small teams) winning. > > > > > > On May 6, 8:21 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > My $.02. > > > > > > > The Android Challenge community is most likely identical to other > > > > online communities. > > > > > > > If so, then <5% of the people entering into the Google Challenge are > > > > actually active participants in the community. That would be in > > line > > > > with the number of Challenge submissions as 1788 * .05 = 100 is > > > > roughly the number of people that posted to the ChallengeMeter post. > > > > > > > Given that we've seen mostly individual Challenge participants > > posting > > > > here, my guess is the majority of the non-posters are the company & > > > > team submitters. Since those team/company submissions are most > > likely > > > > to win due to greater time/effort spent on their submissions, the > > > > majority of the top 50 winners are probably people that have not > > been > > > > active in this community. > > > > > > > If you followed all that, this is the unfortunate reality of most > > > > communities...i.e. that the many benefit from the posts of the few. > > > > With a new product like Android, it's guaranteed that every > > Challenge > > > > submission benefited greatly from the dialogue in these communties, > > > > but sadly few of those who benefited probably gave back to that same > > > > community (ie. were active posters). > > > > > > > So the short end of my answer is "No...I wouldn't expect many people > > > > who are posting to this community to have many hits from the judges > > as > > > > we're probably not in the top 50." I REALLY hope I'm just being > > > > cynical and pessimistic...but then again, that would mean this > > > > community is unlike the majority of online communities out there. > > > > > > > This isn't a diss at Google or online communities, but simple the > > sad > > > > fact of our society in general. > > > > > > > Now please...please...let me be proven wrong when the winners are > > > > announced...! > > > > > > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
