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[General Topics] ace10134:
Haha, Ivan's a great chef. I chose NRG though, because he makes ROM's for numerous devices, and they're still amazing on those other devices!

You said we can choose #1, #2... votes, right? 2nd Place to Ivan for (4) Outstanding ROM Development then! He was the heart and soul of the Wing community...here was what he cooked: http://thewingster.com/ivanmmj.aspx

He was an awesome cook for an outdated phone!
[General Topics] nahid569:
excellent Idea! keep this up, developers on here deserve an award of some kind. Cheapest VOIP Cheapest VOIP calls
[General Topics] ace10134:
Curious...why did you put those URL's in white after your comment? It kinda feels like spam....so I'm just curious, hah.
[General Topics] burnlea:
Well spotted ace10134. What does he hope to gain from that?
[General Topics] quicksite:
Damn. Whewwww. Sometimes I must feel paranoid. :rolleyes: Reading the email notification of this message, I wondered for a moment if I still had my own favorite developer URLs in my sigfile...! I removed them a few days ago to clean up my sigfile... and here I thought maybe I'd missed a character that was still linked to a developer thread.

So I'm happy it wasn't me... I'm trying hard to be responsive to any concerns people write about this nominating thread.
[General Topics] thepgo:
5. Outstanding Achievement for ROM performance & usability, per individual phone device:

NRGZ28 for Energy series ROMs

I've seen ones for Diamond and Touch Pro. Don't really know how this guy does this - they have very low storage and ram available - but man, they are awesome looking, super stuffed, and FAST.

CRACING CR96 Touch HD™ for Wizard.

Most stable, and complete roms I've ever seen. This guy brought a new life into old Wizard. Awesome.

I wish this guy could cook for my diamond :)
[General Topics] Paul_Days:
Outstanding Achievement for ROM performance & usability, per individual phone device

1. ONYX ROMS by DSIDXA

Outstanding Achievement for Theming & Skinning development

1.Livven Simplegloss
[General Topics] tito12:
Same as above :)

Outstanding Achievement for ROM performance & usability, per individual phone device

1. ONYX ROMS by DSIDXA

Outstanding Achievement for Theming & Skinning development

1.Livven Simplegloss
[General Topics] Livven:
Thanks people :D!

I'd like to nominate:

Please see post 65 for my nominations.

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What about summarizing all nominations? I'd like to help, too :).
[General Topics] :
DSI XDA's Onyx ROMs.

He kept the Elf/Elfin alive to 2010, and still going strong!
[General Topics] mancsoulja:
My nomination for Outstanding Achievement for ROM performance & usability, per individual phone device has to go to da_g, without him hardly any of us would be enjoying windows mobile 6.5 :)
[General Topics] jeremy89632:
Dsixda - onyx roms
[General Topics] Fdo35:
I'd like to nominate a few people for this.

For Outstanding Achievement for ROM performance & usability, per individual phone device

Miri - for developing great ROMs for multiple devices and even going so far as to develop multiple clean ROMs for the same device to meet everyone's preferences

kholk - for developing what I consider to be the only clean(it doesn't remove or add anything not found on the original Leo ROMs aside from updates) ROM for the HTC HD2 (Leo), the Eugenia ROM Project

For Outstanding Achievement for Theming & Skinning development (across all ROMS, applications, wallpapers)

Livven - for his great themes which are also designed to meet multiple people's preferences
[General Topics] Gerabit:
and my vote goes to....

Outstanding Achievement for ROM performance & usability, per individual phone device

1. ONYX ROMS by DSIDXA

Outstanding Achievement for Theming & Skinning development

1.Livven Simplegloss[/QUOTE]
[General Topics] Espe01:
Onyx

...for his work at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=426540
[General Topics] Darkseid83:
Because I am a proud member of this forum. I say go for it. The men and women that code and slave over a hot phone deserve recognition for making htc and our phone kick some serious A#%. How can i help you? With your process?
[General Topics] Livven:
Nominate some people yourself or perhaps collect all people who have been nominated till now (and how many times they have been nominated) :).
[General Topics] quicksite:
Excellent, thank you! I totally agree!

I'm also excited that a really high-end branded logo is being created for these Recognition Awards. For "Year 1" the prizes will consiste of these exclusive T-shirts for all 1st, 2nd, 3rd places in each category, (and perhaps nominees as well, sporting a different title designating "Nominated"). There are so many non-stop developers here that i hope to help generate some long overdue recognition.

I think for now a T-shirt award will be something tangible that one wears to work or hanging out. I think developers ( i think!) would way prefer that to some paper-weight to put on a mantle piece or table... (of course I haven't yet gotten to how to PAY for these T-shirts... but I will kick in an initial $200 or so, and hopefully donations could amplify that)

I hope to premiere this Devvy Awards logo during the time period of voting.

Livven took the words right out of my mouth:

Exactly. You could start by organizing a document, whether spreadsheet or just text doc, using the categories of POST #2....

Then go through this whole thread and mark down all nominations placing them into their correct category headings. Keep in mind that ROM Developers will be recognized separately, for every phone on the XDA forums list that has had two or more ROMS created over the past year (or prior years).

This would be a great help. orb is helping as well. and we're going to try to coordinate a skype call in the next few days to tighten up all the details.

PLEASE, encourage more nominations in every forum you visit. This thread, I am going to guess, has only been seen by maybe less than 10% of the whole community of active posters.
[General Topics] Darkseid83:
i think i did that before you asked .. i think i sent it to livven insted on you.
[General Topics] quicksite:
I got your PM, thanks very much for putting that doc together!
[General Topics] DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
I'd like to nominate Chainfire for the Utility/Applet category. He's created useful apps like WMWifirouter, graphics drivers (like GFXboost and the Kaiser's drivers), and other useful utilities (like WMLong life, a battery extending tool).

As for Device Operating System Level Engineering, I'd like to nominate a few people (if that's okay). I'd like to nominate Da_G, for helping to organize the ImageUpdate project while also bringing us leaked builds of 6.5.x every so often and creating many useful tutorials concerning ROM building and low-level WM modifications. I'd like to nominate Olipro, cmonex, and jockeyw2001 for building HardSPL and various unlockers for nearly every device on this forum. I'd also like to nominate Ervius and Bepe for their extremely useful ROM-related tools (you have to look pretty hard to find a kitchen which doesn't contain their tools).
[General Topics] quicksite:
Dave, thanks so much. This is the kind of recognition nominations I have wanted to see more of: the people who've made some of the groundbreaking developments that have made the whole process of modifying phones so much more effective. and yes, nominate as many people as you can think of.

Why?

Because this is happening in a compressed time frame, and people who take the time to nominate are already in a thoughtful mood, and it's hard to cover the breadth of thios whole site. So it makes perfect sense that people who've been active on the site know whole LISTS of people who desrve recognition for achievement.

So please feel free to continue. And as stated before, there is no shame or bad-taste in nominating oneself. That is totally approproate because there are names that I see missing, people very well known with solid, highly-used works, but it seems members here sometimes assume some of the "obvious people" are already nominated. This is not the case.

For example, I do not see Simo (ssjrtrunks5) nominated for "iFonz" or "androkkid". I will be adding him as one of the people I nominate.

thanks!
[General Topics] Livven:
Okay, I guess I'll nominate some more people:

1. Outstanding Achievement for Windows Mobile application development

scilor - for his useful and finger-friendly apps

MiToNiOeS - for iPhoneToday

5. Outstanding Achievement for ROM performance & usability, per individual phone device

+ Que PPC - for his great Hermes ROMs

6. Outstanding Achievement for Theming & Skinning development

kane159 - for his HollBlack theme, especially figuring out how to set the ThemeValues registry key to make it really black

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

schaps - for his Advanced Config tool which is present in almost every custom ROM

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

Mr. Makk - for his excellent universal tutorials

19. Outstanding Community Achievement Providing Consistent Practical, Helpful, Clear Feedback and Q&A Support in any Forum

orb3000 - for his always welcoming the newbies and participation in the Anti-Spam Team
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But I think there are way too many categories. One for apps, one for all ROMs, one for scripting/widgets, one for themes, one for tutorials/community achievement should be enough.
[General Topics] Darkseid83:
1. Outstanding Achievement for New Application Development for Windows Mobile

-A_C (S2U2,S2P)

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

- ssj5trunks (Androkkid)

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)

- OliNex (hard spl Rhodium)

- schaps (advanced Config tool)
[General Topics] Fa7my:
1. Outstanding Achievement for New Application Development for Windows Mobile

*Nominee:A_C

For: S2P & S2U2

Reason: wonderful, light, and finger friendly apps

*Nominee: Microfi

For: Nitrogen

Reason: light skinnable music player

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

*Nominee: Rozenthal

For: FingerKeyboard

Reason: one of the most finger friendly keyboards

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

*Nominee: ageye

For: infinty

Reason: a very promising today shell

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

*Nominee: dsixda

For: ONYX ROMs for Elf(in)

Reason: lightweight, very stable ROMs

*Nominee: Miky6682

For: Miky's ROMs for Elf(in)

Reason: stable, very cool graphicwise, very usable

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

*Nominee: cmonex

For: HardSPL for Elf(in)

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

*Nominee: kokotas

For: AVOID cOnFuSiOn&DaMaGeS -> FIND aNsWeRs, GuIdEs, LiNkS, eTc (for Elf/Elfin)

Reason: helped me greatly (although i was a complete noob) to upgrade my Elf

P.S: I have a question for you quicksite, what about guys who extract programs, like EzInput Keyboards or Swype or Experiment 13 for example??
[General Topics] quicksite:
Question for Fa7my: re extractions

First off, thank you for such a great slate of nominations, and for your formatting and inclusion of Reason for each nominee. That is so useful to all, I believe.

Second, in the updated new thread coming in a day or two, which re-orgs all existing nomination by category heading, then lists all nominees so far, the goal is to LINK all user names with their "thread starter" personal page, and LINK all apps and utilities and roms, etc, to their RELEASE THREADS.

I consider this essential, and at same time I have admitted that this train is moving really fast with almost zero advance-time to properly lay down the tracks toward the destination. Repeating what I;ve written before: I feel like 2009 is the year it all exploded and changed... and thus, even if starting late, and even if no prior peer-reviewed methodology, we, the community, should push to make this happen... by being open, transparent, and seeking all advice as the train is already moving.

I believe that the re-shaping of the categories for nominations has been outstanding, and has come from great user feedback. I think it has shown that by using the "agile development model", we can get it mostly right, by working together to address what;s missing, what;s not expressed well, what needs refinement, etc.

THUS, re your question, no one has raised it before until now. I am not personally familiar with the products you mention. But let me ask if I am am on the right track regarding your question:

For the past few years my focused set of forums revolved around my phone -- probably like most people. Mine was the T-Mobile Wing/ HTC Herald. When there would be a new phone from HTC that had some Ui improvements, or even new apps, there are people who would take those ROMS and crack them open to extract applications, etc, for use by others to include in their own roms.

Is this what you mean? Or are you speaking of something totally different? thank you
[General Topics] Fa7my:
you are welcome.. :D

yes that's what I was talking about the EzInout was extracted from the HTC Diamond and Swype Keyboard was extracted from the Omnia Pro (not sure)
[General Topics] quicksite:
Nomination in this category:

s.l.i -- for [05/09/2008 UPDATE] ThumbCal 1.3.5 - customizable finger friendly calendar

Dramatically improved the WM standard OS calendar functions, which were all tine in size, and required stylus to hit tiny targets for everything. Thumbcal turned almost all of that calendar functionality into FINGER-NAVIGABLE app, with tremendous number of options, including day view, week view, agenda view etc... not to mention skinnable, and included excellent skins to make the overall usefulness that much better. So good it should be standard on windows mobile OS... it remains to be seen how WM 7 will revamp all of its calendar functionality, but I'm not waging any bets that they will improve upon ThumbCal... we'll see.

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[General Topics] quicksite:
A Critical Question re extraction of codesets that are IP of others

My own personal reaction, I would like to hear more community feedback. This is the only proposed category thus far that, to me, comes close to intellectual property conflicts.

I know, for example, that in the ROMS I used on T-Mobile Wing, they would never ever be as good as they were without XDA-developers cracking open HTC Rhodium and Opal and other device ROMS in order to extract large-menu and notification systems, which were leaps ahead in adding great usability improvements gaining access to those features.

That IS, in my personal opinion, very specific work that benefits many in the building of ROMS.

There has always been a lively discussion at XDA-devs regarding the extraction of the windows OS components of ROMS, such as when WM 6.5 was cracked open and used to make ROMS here before Microsoft ever got its act together to release that OS on its new phones. My vague recollection is that the site has considered this to be fundamental to the dev work that goes on here, and that we all pay for our WM OS licenses when we buy our devices.. and thus new versions of O.S. are like upgrades to the OS license we purchase in buying our phones which shipped with OS VERSION xxxx.

I also read many times from different people that many a microsoft developer hangs out here, and consider the XDA site a valuable resource to them. And further that there have been no DMCA coryright violation removal notices coming to the XDA admins demanding removal of all WM o.s. content form this site, which has suggested that they are very aware of what happens at this site, and do not consider it an IP violation, or else they would say so.

Similarly, as I understand it, HTC has not considered our cracking open new phone ROMS to extract TouchFlo and Menu systems and Album app and Music Player app to be an IP problem. But this is way out of my league.

So, to me this is a question for other people way more knowledgeable than I am to address the issue of extraction.

what do YOU think? :)
[General Topics] Fa7my:
In my humble opinion, I think that HTC would "Like" its programs to be extracted and hacked.

Although the new upgrades may replace buying a new phone but still it makes HTC's software more popular, and they get much more feedback than they would have gotten if these software was not so "available" to everybody, allowing them to add further improvements to the user experience on their phones (for example we wouldn't have reached manilla 2.5 unless HTC was really hearing their users' feedbacks)

Still, as for the extraction issue, to be honest when I posted the question I didn't think of it IP-wise, I'm not a developer myself, but I thought these people helped other Chefs to build these wonderful ROMs which we all use, I don't know how easy or difficult the extraction process is itself, but I think that the "extractors" must also be honored..

Hope I'm not causing you a headache, but it's just that when i posted the question I didn't think it would arouse your attention to that level :D
[General Topics] 1Mureed:
DSIXDA for the Onyx roms
[General Topics] Chanchai08:
Go for best ROM for Elf(in) belong to DSIXDA (Onyx roms)
[General Topics] quicksite:
I forgot in my own set of nominations to add:

bluemetalaxe --

under two categories:

Theming/Skinning

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

for his outstanding collection of "iphone-like" clean, polished icons usable on various interface shells such as iFonz, androkkid, and many others. Nothing like a visual that encapsulates the name & function of the app or utility just thru its clean stark visual design.

*** QUESTION for anyone reading: Is it valid to include "icons" in this category #9 ? I am of mixed mind, but curious what others think. thank you.
[General Topics] iakinthos:
Onyx roms by dsixda are the best for elf(in):)
[General Topics] jug6ernaut:
Nomination: Chainfire

Category: 9.

For: WMWifiRouter, KaiserTweak(base for all the "Tweaks" apps), Kaiser 3D Driver, and CFC(ChainFireCompression).

Reason: WMWifiRouter monumental program that added huge functionality to our phones that even HTC ripped off in there wifi app. KaiserTweaks a simple application that has just simple not gone away. First with the kaiser and has been reborn in all the other tweak apps. Kaiser 3d Driver: Driver that turned our kaisers from lame no gpu device into something we could actually be proud. Finally the biggest of them all, CFC. Almost every new HTC devices comes with Manila, and thanks to CFC this great UI is even better. It can be reasonable to say that almost every custom rom with manila has Chainfires CFC in it. This CFC has even gone to other phones such as the omnia 2 and x1. If its Manila, CFC made it better.

Catagory: 6/8

For: FPU Enabler, GFX Boost, HD2 OpenGl ES 2 Patch/Driver

Reason: 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, is 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! This app patches yet another failed driver by HTC/Qualcomm. It increases OpenGL 2 performance on snapdragon phones by around 500%!. Simply amazing.
[General Topics] Dust2Dust:
Jasjamming for Hermes ROMS ( BLACK )

Outstanding Achievement for ROM Performance & Usability, per individual Windows Mobile phone dev

Jasjamming with his series of Black ROM's for Hermes without any doubt. literally thousands of people not sleeping because of upcoming releases...

There were conplete threads removed by mods becuz they were completely off-topic...

read: posts like: "I can't wait, how long do we have to wait?!?!"
[General Topics] jug6ernaut:
QuickSite ur missing my nomination of Chainfire 3 posts up :\
[General Topics] quicksite:
damn you are a sharp cookie... I know!! not intentional... I will go add asap. I had just pulled a first list together late late late last night San Francisco time.

And I had wanted to get this visual up as well, though it is only a temporary placeholder image. The real logo and mark are being designed as we speak, in Hong Kong.

I promise to update and add to the list in post #2 late late late tonight. Right now i am offline for next few hours. Thanks very much... Chainfire's work is really highly regarded, so this was just to assure you: not at all forgotten or missed!

thank you!
[General Topics] quicksite:
OKAY, FIXED!

Please tell me if I placed them correctly. In my removing Android categories for now (to be done separately in March), a couple of Category Numbers changed, which I realize may cause some confusion; but my apologies...

P.S. -- hah hah, I love your sig file quote!!

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