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Feb 19, 2010: Devvy awards status update

UPDATE: Feb 19, 2010

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone for your patience.

As this is “Year 1” of the DEVVY AWARDS for Recognition of Excellence in Touchscreen Application & Utility Development for the various mobile operating systems, many process and logistical factors in carrying out these awards were initially (ridiculously) thought to be simple. To those abundantly-wise XDA members who said “you must be nuts if you think you can run such an awards program in just a few weeks”, we humbly agree; we were nuts... but live and learn. The first posting here was December 20, 2009. We’ve been moving forward as rapidly and as transparently as possible, using quality and care as our timing guide, vs rushing so fast to meet what were impossible initial timing goals. But at each step we’re listening closely to feedback and acting as best we can. This is an all volunteer effort (translation: Just me (quicksite) plus big help from orb3000 and 2 occasional helpers)

VOLUNTEERS WOULD BE PARTICULARLY HELPFUL AT THIS STAGE: PM me please

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CURRENT STATUS - as of FEB 19, 2010:

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VOTING SOFTWARE evaluation began on February 1, 2010 and has now been thoroughly researched to present a secure, tamper-resistant and flexible voting system, and one which handles 1000+ vote responses. Six different web-based voting software packages were reviewed. Our choice, made on FEB 18, 2010, is SurveyMonkey, for many reasons including:

• Ranked-Choice-Voting (voting for Choice 1, and Choice 2, and Choice 3), which enables the Devvy Awards’ more sophisticated multi-person recognition philosophy, versus the more limited “1 Winner per Category” system resulting in “And the Best Windows Mobile App Developer for 2009 is Jonathan Swift”

• Unlimited # of voters (PollDaddy, by contrast, limits to 1000 voters)

• Ability to edit/correct your voting ballot before final submission

• Greater features that enable running separate DEVVY AWARDS voting for each of the 5 Divisions: Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone, Blackberry, and WebOS

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VOTING BALLOT PREPARATION: Windows Mobile Division

Voting Software evaluation concluded Feb 18, 2010. Ballot Preparation has begun Feb 19, 2010. Though this may seem like a simple 1-2-3 task, it is not, to do this properly. It takes some time to determine the formatting requirements (checkboxes, pulldowns, multiple answers per row) that correspond to the DEVVY categories and nominees list.

Thank you for your continued patience, and hopefully, your continued enthusiasm for a great new recognition program that we hope will have enduring value for the touchscreen development communities and our industry.

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Thank you much.

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** Go Directly to Post #2 for NOMINATIONS LIST thus far.

** To See the Original Post from December 20, 2009 announcing the formation of the Devvy Awards, please jump to Post #7 below, where it is now archived for transparency of process.

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