[General Topics] quicksite:
**ORIGINAL POST announcing these awards: DECEMBER 20, 2009

Jan 31, 2010 UPDATE:

1. Nominations close end of day today (Jan 31)

2. The Voting mechanism is still being finalized. Very likely to be run on PollDaddy.com web software voting platform. The formatting and actual voting process is only now being worked on, as nominations were being occupying me full time, with help of 3 volunteers.

3. Please bear with us. Deadlines and timelines have slipped. It's been a very imperfect process, and will continue to be imperfect during this formation year of these peer-to-peer awards.

SOME PROCESS DECISIONS:

1. "The Show Must Go On!" ... "However..."

The voting start date has slipped, unfortunately. It will begin in February, but the exact start date is not yet known, as time is needed to set up the ballot system and voting rules.

As the Awards Coordinator, I believe it is better to slip and adjust, and ask that you go with the flow this year, than to fall flat onto one's face, and get key steps wrong, which would mar the results.

2. Please provide feedback immediately re suggestion for how long the voting period (actual casting of votes) should last.

3. Especially in the Device ROMS Category, there have been some holes of missing nominations. This is due to an inability to properly publicize these nominations in all of the Device-Specific Forums of this site. That is where the vast majority of people who come to XDA-devs spend all their time. Thus:

4. As Coordinator, I have decided I will consult with the Devvy Awards Volunteers, along with several XDA-Devs moderators, to determine which Categories will be temporarily withdrawn from the voting process. In other words: Voting will take place in February for all the awards in this Windows Mobile OS Division. However, every attempt will be made to schedule a later voting period, down the line, for those categories that are either empty or incomplete.

5. These Categories will likely be scheduled for this "Late Voting" period at the same time the Android Division of the Devvy Awards are voted on several months from now.

6. Announcement of Recipients of the 2009 XDA Devvy Awards in the Windows Mobile Division will also be determined thru this conferencing with colleagues here.

YOUR SUGGESTIONS ARE WANTED & APPRECIATED

Please post suggestions and any concerns or questions in this thread.

Thank you much.

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

... or read on below for explanation of the XDA Devvy Awards.

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Hello XDA Devs! An Urgent Request for Your Contributions. There are huge holes in the WORK-IN-PROGRESS Nominations List below (Post 2)

NOMINATIONS ARE STILL OPEN -- AND YOUR VOICES ARE NEEDED RIGHT NOW!

A preliminary set of nominations has grew organically from THIS THREAD started in late December 2009, but not enough people have become aware of this thread's existence. This is an imperfect process, but with high-spirited intentions: to recognize the amazing bodies of work that have been developed here on this site. Please give this effort a push by looking at the preliminary list below, and scouring your mind for the chefs and Application Developers you have been most familiar with as you've modded your phones.

Intentions were to close nominations mid-January and begin voting quickly thereafter. But responding to some huge holes in the field of nominations to date, we are extending the Nominating Period until January 28th, 2010, with voting to begin end of January and run for 3 weeks.

(Jump to Post #2 to view current list)

Special thanks to orb3000 and Darkseid83 for volunteering to assemble and aggregate list.

NOMINATING GUIDELINES:

You may nominate as many people as you choose, you may nominate people & applications in multiple categories, you may even nominate yourself, and we strongly recommend it. This is a very large community with specialty forums that tend to limit members' participation to the hacking/mod threads related to their phones only. Thus don't be modest. Many many people here have contributed major advancements over the years that have greatly extended the functionality and ease of use of Windows Mobile Phones, and now Android* Phones as well. The 2009 Awards seek to recognize all of these major contributions, many of which were developed 4 and 5 years ago. This is not a competition, so please take a little time to show some appreciation for the people and works that have made your touchscreen phone experience that much better through their years of hard, focused work. Thank you.

======== SOME BACKGROUND =========

This is year one of the DEVVY AWARDS -- Finally, peer-to-peer Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in Application Development for Mobile Phones -- nominated this year by XDA-dev community members -- and voted on by XDA-dev community. (Next year expanding to adjacent development communities working on other platforms).

This is unlike the Smartphone and "Top Ten" and other awards that tend to organize around a limited number of brand-name "pay" applications whose distributors tend to also advertise on the various smartphone magazine websites, and who select their juries based on who-knows-what qualifications, and then announce their awards -- all without any transparency, and with a "from on-high" top-down approach.

The Devvies, by contrast… like the Emmys, Grammys and Webby Awards… are to be industry achievement recognitions nominated by and voted on by people who actually work in the trenches and, in this field, develop and program applications, utilities, widgets, user interface shells, replacement core functional components like keyboards and contact managers and dialers, and who cook ROMS, design themes, skins, icon systems, create tutorials, wiki entries, How To guides, or make videos demo-ing how to install and tweak all of the above. The Devvy Awards are specifically not about competition, or simplistic compilations of "Best of" Awards.

The idea to recognize developers first took hold here in March 2008 when vijay asked "should we have awards?", but then slipped to the back burner in part due to the lack of a guiding initiator who was ready to simply commit to making this happen. In December 2009 xda member quicksite, a UX/usability/information designer, took the torch and mapped out an initial framework.

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