disagree I am quite ok too loose, but finding out that my 98% of my app never got looked at, is a HORROR story for the developer who worked on it for 3months straight. Well, nobody died, but I’d rather not have such experience ever in my life.
Psychologically, this is worse then loosing a contest 7times in a row. Imagine running an Olympic marathon and an on the finish line for whatever reason, no stop-watch is clicked when YOU cross it... how good such competition, - is this the definition of "it ran better then expected" ? So yes, i fully support this thread, even though it will not change anything with ADC I (too late), but this further PR is needed for two reasons: * communicate and provide response to those developers who have got badly hurt by ADC I judging process (the ones with server-side components, BTW I am not among them, i've lost it but im OK) * find out what can be improved in this respect for ADC II and other challenges that Google will hold. Communicate this clearly to developers. i hope these thoughs are on topic. cheers, Aleksandras G. --- http://code.google.com/p/drine/ - Dr.i.n.e. project: let's start compiling our Android apps for the web and desktop On May 12, 11:45 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "I believe, that we can all agree that the Challenge didn't run as > well > as expected, organization wise..." > > I do not agree. I think it ran better than expected, even though our > entry did not win. > > They are working to provide examples of entries that did win. These > are entries the public will appreciate. Please read the threads with > the winners talking and the joy in their banter. Even for those who > sacrificed much in pursuit of a prize not won, the picture of our > winners is a really beautiful thing that every human should > appreciate! > > Pictures of the winners and their applications is the best PR in the > world. > > The contest was well run and well judged. Google is doing fine on > PR. > > Ed > > On May 12, 10:55 am, Rui Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, I think that it's time for google to step up and do some real PR > > Management. > > > What many participants are complaining about relates directly do the > > lack of Public Relations Management in this whole Challenge process! > > > I believe, that we can all agree that the Challenge didn't run as well > > as expected, organization wise, but I bet that Google per se, probably > > didn't expect the overwhelming response of 1788 applications either. > > And moving the Challenge deadline, was also not properly accounted for > > either, since this shurelly impacted how the judging process was > > conducted, since their deadline to output results wasn't postponed > > (except using the full May 5th Week), which means participants had +1 > > month to develop, but judges had -1 month to judge! > > > But besides all the process bumps, what seems to be hurting the > > android developers (participants) community the most is the lack of > > info, more specifically communication! > > > Participants, never new what was going on, what is going on now, or > > what will happen in the near future, despite que multiple request for > > enlightnment that were posted in these forums. > > > Please address this issue, Communication! > > > P.S. > > To every participant, please keep this thread correct and to the > > point. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
