http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/2961/
Suggested awards would be as follows:
- Best new Productivity Application (encourages business program development)
- Most innovative program (encourages the development of new types of programs)
- Best Social Application (encouraging social type applications)
- Most innovative free game (new types of games)
- Most promising new startup (encourages the formation of new companies).
- Most valuable developer (not sure about this one)
- Most improved program
- Best free program overall

The awards would certainly encourage development greatly (especially slightly before applications to join start).They must offer decent prizes, that are motivating (money would be best for the new startup, and get them going). Apple doesn't give away many prizes for theirs (mainly just computers and such), but it drives every programmer every year.

Our issue now is that OSX has companies like Freeverse, who are driving most of OSX's innovation, yet, we are having difficulty attracting similar companies. Awards such as these may encourage new linux startups that provide good linux programs, which possibly generate revenue for them without demanding it.

This would certainly help generate a river of new Applications, and boost innovation. It would also help bring the ubuntu community closer together.

And, it would encourage developers to sit down, and polish their interfaces for their applications a bit more. Seeing that Ubuntu happily gives away free CD's, and must have some full time staff, I think it should be affordable. And Dell would certainly donate some hardware I'm sure for the event (it acts as free advertising and would highlight their linux laptops). And it would cost nothing for companies like VMware to give away some software.

It would be great for the community, and nobody could disagree that having "most valuable linux programmer 2007" would be a good thing on your resume.


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]]> en-us Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:50:16 +0000 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:20:30 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2961/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:15:32 +0000 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:36:47 +0000 I mean in terms of productivity, if you are to make apps more productive, the OS, or at least implement this idea or something similar to this so I can expect to see this kind of change and consider using Ubuntu Linux as my only OS.

At this moment, as I said before, I fell a big need to get Windows running again on my laptop so I can work without concerning if the apps are going to respond as they should, if I won't have any kind of glitch on the process of production and work, because at this moment I'm not doing well with common daily work, at least daily graphical work or just office work.
Two days ago I tried to build the simplest presentation on OpenOffice.org Impress, I couldn't even get the transition effects(as simple as fades) to work properly, with normal speed it just wouldn't fade in at click, but stamp the element on the screen, not mentioning it crashed about 3 times while I was configuring it, and it was the latest OpenOffice for Gutsy, the latest active, stable, non-beta release of Ubuntu.
When I opened Blender, after second it started having graphical glitches with the contents from the window below blinking on the screen over the actual blender window, continuously.
After this I think its obvious that I would get sad with it and fell no stability and no consistency at all on the system(even knowing Linux is consistent). And I think its normal that after that I would miss Windows where I could open a program and it would just start and work in a few seconds or even minutes, but it would just work and get my job done, I felt I could rely on it.
I know this is not the general case on Linux, but in this case, when we really need to work with a program, we can't be the ones to be left by ourselves to solve the problem or to live with it otherwise, when we got just some hours to have that job done.
So I really would like to know if I could expect to see changes on this matter.

Hope to see replies from the Ubuntu guys,
Take care people.]]> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:03:45 +0000 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:04:47 +0000
I'd like to hear from the ubuntu team if they are in fact considering this. Otherwise it may be worth a few of us banding together and organising a linux design awards together. Shouldn't be too hard.. ]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:36:51 +0000 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:53:36 +0000 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:26:32 +0000 Compatibility Awards too. Having both together would bring software developers and hardware developers together, and build up a relationship with companies. Together, the benefits could actually be GREATLY amplified.]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:27:01 +0000
1) How are these awards differentiated from the other open source related awards?

2) Canonical is a smaller company than the other Linux companies... shouldn't the be awards handed out by a consortium of Linux distributions/companies (spread the cost/share the wealth)?

3) How are these awards funded? (since you mentioned cash)? A couple of these awards (social/games) seem to be targeted at individuals yet the money in the FOSS space seems to be coming from corporations. Are individuals willing to pay for products and services... a key thing new/existing companies look for?
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