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CONT'd -- Part 2 of ALL NOMINATIONS for 2009 Devvys for Windows Mobile only

INSTRUCTIONS:

For the Windows Mobile OS Division, there are 12 Devvy Award Categories for Recognition of Achievement in Application Development, Utilities, ROMS, Theming, How-to Guides & Instruction.

NOTE 1:

Below these notes is a simple Blank Nominating List for the 12 Categories. Select and COPY this Nominating List to then PASTE INTO your post: so that you can keep your entry formatted consistently with all previous Nomination entries.

NOTE 2:

Then further below the Blank List is the Complete List of Nominations "so far" as submitted by XDA members in posts to this thread.

It is termed "so far", however, due to the holes in several categories we discovered when preparing the actual online voting ballots -- which in May were ready to be send out before we placed a HOLD to determine how to best address these holes of incomplete nominations.

NOTE 3:

Our solution, imperfect as it is, was to return to the XDA-Devs community -- the peer-based pool of developers themselves, try harder to get the existence of these awards, out in front of a larger percentage of community members, re-open these nominations and ask: Would you please help us make these nominations thorough and complete. Windows Mobile will cease to exist as a forward moving platform by October. This is a great way to pay tribute to the many people HERE who made the platform so usable, moving far beyond where MS always left off.

NOTE 4:

You can nominate yourself; you can nominate any number of people, even multiple people in one category

NOTE 5:

SCOPE of the Devvy Awards: The Devvys are industry wide, peer-to-peer recognition. There will be separarte OS/Platform-specific Divisions of Recognition of Achievement beginning with Windows Mobile, which had been XDA's entire scope until Android, followed later in 2010 with the Android OS division, and later (occuring on the Devvy Awards website) Blackberry, WebOS, and iPhone )

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Division 1 ...... WINDOWS MOBILE Operating System

1. Outstanding Achievement for New Application Development for Windows Mobile

2. Outstanding Achievement for Essential OS Replacement Interface Components & Functions for Windows Mobile (these would include Keyboards, Dialers, Contacts, Notification Systems, etc)

3. Outstanding Achievement for Interface Shell & Application Launcher for Windows Mobile

4. Outstanding Achievement for Utility/Applet/Scripting development for Windows Mobile

5. Outstanding Achievement for Widget development or Plug-ins for "Today" or "Home" Screen for Windows Mobile (these are differentiated from utilities & applets due to their plug-in nature, but more specifically pulling in & displaying realtime updatable information from Web or other full-scale sources)

6. Outstanding Achievement for ROM Performance & Usability, per individual phone device running Windows Mobile

7. Outstanding Achievement for Theming & Skinning development for Windows Mobile, (across all ROMS, applications, wallpapers)

8. Special Achievement in Device Operating System Level Engineering for Windows Mobile

(Covers foundational works like HardSPL, as well as Driver development and the enabling of Linux, then Android 1.5 to run native on a Windows Mobile device)

9. Special Recognition for Multiple-Year Achievements in pre-2009 Development of the Most Widely-Adopted Apps & Utilities on the Windows Mobile platform*

(* These will not be pitted against each other. All nominees who have been posted and seconded with an explanatory reason or rationale will receive Recognition Awards. Each of the developers of foundational apps & utilities (pre-2009) which achieved widespread adoption as almost "essential apps" should be recognized. )

10. Special Devvy Recognition for XDA ROM Chefs Hall of Fame from all the early years of XDA-developers website's outstanding ROM development

Division 2 ..... Sitewide Information Access & Support

11. Outstanding Achievement in Instructional Writing & Design, including Tutorials, Guides, User Manuals, Wiki Writing & Editing, and Video Presentations.

12. Outstanding Community Achievement Providing Consistent Practical, Helpful, Clear Feedback and Q&A Support in any Forum (Multiple Recognition Awards in this Category, not voted on, but rather derived from the nomination rationale posted here, for any XDA-helper (including the Developer), in any or all Forums)

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List of all Nominations thus far: (for Windows Mobile OS only, plus XDA Community Awards)

1••••• WINDOWS MOBILE Operating System

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1. Outstanding Achievement for New Application Development for Windows Mobile

- Ageye (G-alarm, G-profile, Infinity)

- A_C (S2U2 - Enhanced Notification System and Message Preview on lock screen; S2P - new advancements)

- Barguast (Groovefish -- WM Client to web music service Grooveshark)

- 6Fg8 (Power radio)

- scilor ("Fahrplanauskunft" - finger-friendly app for bus/train wayplans/routes/schedules in Germany; considered highly useful)

- MiToNiOeS (iPhoneToday) (**Should this be under "Apps" or Interface Shell?)

- microfi - (Nitrogen Music Player w/ equalizer) (lightweight, finger navigable, highly skinnable, feature-rich playlist)

- supbro - for Avatar visual dialer

- sleuth255 - Sleuth's myLocation Service: your phone always knows where it is!

noonski - multiple apps

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2. Outstanding Achievement for Essential OS Replacement Interface Components & Functions for Windows Mobile

(these would include Keyboards, Dialers, Contacts, Notification Systems, etc)

- dotfred

- PCM keyboard by tene

- suprbro -- for iDialer with Google Voice, iContact (shared credit; derived from work by larna ... and.. others? )

- Burt -- for iContact picture-list edition

- AvianWaves -- for iContact AE picture-list edition

- Finger Keyboard (insert name of developer)

- several people for revamping the Windows Task Bar: artemis? at least 2 other developers whose names not yet listed)

- s.l.i - (ThumbCal - customizable finger friendly calendar) (Dramatically improved WM's calendar functions which were all tiny in size requiring stylus to hit tiny targets everywhere. Made all functionality FINGER-NAVIGABLE, with tremendous number of options like day view, week view, agenda view; skinnable, including excellent skin set to make overall more useful. Should be standard on windows mobile)

Missing names

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3. Outstanding Achievement for Interface Shell & Application Launcher for Windows Mobile

- ssj5trunks - (iFonz 2.0) + (androkkid) (Android-like interface w/ drag & drop app launcher & layout editor; complete androkkid widget framework & specifications for 3rd-party Widget development; phenomenally current developer with advances in UI/functionality from Android OS but developed for Windows Mobile usage; notably transforms WM device into the "HTC Hero SenseUI" user experience

- MiToNiOeS (iPhoneToday)

- (................... ) -- for FEWidgets (Drag & drop widget-based interface based on look & feel & functionality of (is it SonyEricsson Xperia?) )

Missing names.

Q: UltimateLauncher, PointUI, Winterface, SPB Shell, or the other shells?

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4. Outstanding Achievement for Utility/Applet/Scripting development for Windows Mobile

- OliNex (Hard Spl)

- OliNex (TP2 Hard Splash)

- Mort (MortScript)

- A_C (S2U2)

- noonski - (XDA_UC Autoconfiguration User To User)

- Dave Shaw - (XDA Shutdown) (simple, highly useful utility that can remap to power button; easily skinnable)

- JZSmartMort -- his Mort Script implementation & UI for enabling all web browsers to be available from one icon, make OperaMini be your default browser, sets font sizes in OperaMini, button remapping, more)

- ........................ (M2DC - TouchFlo Manila Customizer Utility & theme saver)(highly used in many many ROMS)

- CRCinAU - DeviceUpdate - an 'appstore' type application to automatically download and install from a list of selected applications

- ........................ (S2U2C Customizer; extended options added)

- SciLor - HD2 / Leo Multitouch .NET CF DLL ( adds MultiTouch-Support to your existing .NET CF software very easily);

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5. Outstanding Achievement for Widget development or Plug-ins for "Today" or "Home" Screen for Windows Mobile

(these are differentiated from utilities & applets due to their plug-in nature, but more specifically pulling in & displaying realtime updatable information from Web or other full-scale sources)

-- WMD (?) -- a whole set of "androkkid" Widgets including HTC-Hero-like clock with weather, calendar/appt widgets.

-- there are other widget developers for androkkid, for FEWidgets UI shell, and maybe others...)

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6. Outstanding Achievement for ROM Performance & Usability, per individual Windows Mobile phone device

(Ideally, there should be at least 1 other ROM released by other developers for that particular phone device in order to have a comparison validity)

Missing Phones, developer names, their ROMS

HTC Hermes

- Que PPC

- Jasjamming - his series of Black ROM's for Hermes.

(Literally thousands of people not sleeping because of upcoming releases... There were complete threads removed by mods becuz of off-topic excited posts like: "I can't wait, how long do we have to wait?!?!" )

HTC Wizard

- CRACING ( CR96 Touch HD )

HTC Polaris

- pcarvalho eXtreme ROM

HTC Universal

- Beasty & Laurentius WM6.1

HTC BlackStone

- Miri

HTC Rhodium

- NRGZ28 (ENERGY roms)

Q: is OliNex in this category also? The compilation of this list had some confusion

HTC ELF

- DSI DXA (ONYX roms)

HTC Herald / T-Mobile WING

- Ivan.... - (JustStable series for WM 6.1); (JustHome series for WM 6.5) (Some of the most efficient ROMS ever produced, with high quality control, constant upgrades until fully stable, solidly themed)

(ttrans, itje?, aserg? pdaviet ?)

HTC Leo

- kholk

This nomination crosses multiple phone devices: .. (Q: Is this proper placement?)

- ChainFire - FPU Enabler, GFX Boost, HD2 OpenGl ES 2 Patch/Driver

FPU Enabler, one of this things that simply makes our phones better. FPU Enabler...well it enabled FPU lol, on such devices the Omnia line of phones and htos with Snapdragon. GFX Boost, an app which again makes our phones better. Enabling "QTV" mode for certain surfaces making the whole phone to run smoother. Related to the MSM7xxx chipset which is really popular choice of HTC these days. HD2 OpenGL ES2 Patch, is yet again another app by chainfire designed for the people! Patches yet another failed driver by HTC/Qualcomm. It increases OpenGL 2 performance on snapdragon phones by around 500%!. Simply amazing.

HTC Raphael

noonski

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7. Outstanding Achievement for Theming & Skinning development for Windows Mobile

(across all ROMS, applications, wallpapers)

- MSkip (ProPlus series for Spb Mobile Shell)

- Bob_55 (S2U2)

- Livven (Simplegloss)

- kane159 (HOLLBLACK)

- Rajivshahi WM7 theme for VGA

- ssj5trunks (Androkkid) (ifonz) complete interfaces

- bluemetalaxe -- under two categories for huge icon sets

- ?? htcthemergloss?? -- did entire beautiful collection of apps

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