Second Annual Ubuntu App Showdown Announced


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Nathan Osman
published Aug. 7, 2013, 10:30 a.m.


About one hour ago, the second annual Ubuntu App Showdown was announced by David Planella. This time around, the focus is on mobile applications. Each application must be built with the Ubuntu SDK for the Ubuntu Touch platform and can be either a native application or an HTML 5 application.

There will be three prizes awarded: an LG Nexus 4 phone with Ubuntu Touch preinstalled.

Nexus 4

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The contest will be judged by five individuals:

  • Jono Bacon
  • Joey-Elijah Sneddon
  • Lisette Slegers
  • Nekhelesh Ramananthan
  • Bill Filler

The judging criteria are as follows (copied from the ubuntu-app-devel mailing list):

  • General Interest - apps that are of more interest to general phone users will be scored higher. We recommend identifying what most phone users want to see, and identifying gaps that your app could fill.
  • Features - a wide range of useful and interesting features.
  • Quality - a high quality, stable, and bug-free application experience.
  • Design - your app should harness the Ubuntu Design Guidelines so it looks, feels, and operates like an Ubuntu app.
  • Awareness / Promotion - we will award extra points to those of you who blog, tweet, facebook, Google+, and otherwise share updates and information about your app as it progress.

Interested? Enter here:
http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/