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2010 Nominations list: Devvy Awards: Windows Mobile OS

JULY 2010 •• UPDATE •• To those of you who are wondering "why all the delays?" It's a small 1-person operation this first year. Couldn't be helped without a paid staff.

To those of you first seeing this thread -- and wondering: "what are these DEVVY AWARDS?" ... Welcome, they are a brand new, first-time-this-year, peer-to-peer recognition of achievement awards for outstanding application development on touchscreen devices

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW RE-OPENED FOR WINDOWS MOBILE, seeing as this is the swan song year for the entire OS, forever.

Long story short:They *WERE* closed and voting was set to take place. But. we found huge holes in the categories, and it wasn't right. And I had a choice of whether to hold to a date, for arbitrary pride purposes, or get it right and be late. I've chosen the latter.

SO NOMINATIONS ARE NOW RE-OPENED FOR WINDOWS MOBILE, seeing as this is the swan song year for the entire OS, forever.

This was heavily influenced by Microsoft's decision to kill to death "Windows Mobile" and start anew with Windows Phone 7, which to me was shouting out the only opportunity to properly honor and tribute to the whole collection of Windows Mobile developers of the past 6-7-8 years here at XDA, who made "adequate" WM OS software come alive with SPL, ROMS, tweeks, mods, APPS, etc, transforming partially usable phones into amazing devices -- that otherwise wouldn't have been.

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For those just hearing now of the DEVVY AWARDS, please spend a few moments with your last phone, even if you've moved on to Android. Help get this right and recognize GREAT ACHIEVEMENT IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT for touchscreens, in the Windows Mobile OS Division.

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For those who already heard of it and wondered, wtf? All I hear are postponements. When will you get your act together? Just please read the following. ... or not. :) Thank you all for patience, for helping develop a peer-to-peer recognition system untainted by marketing dollars and DEALS that push out of the way fairness and quality.

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These awards have been developed for first time this year, as a peer-to-peer recognition program, developer-to-developer and developer-and-end-user --- untainted by the engadgets and CNETs and all the other heavily funded and sometimes heavily biased and sometimes even heavily clueless Big Organizations who believe they can run the touchscreen industry from a TOP-DOWN view -- where they say what's good, and therefore it is.

There's a pricetag for high integrity and bottom-up: no staff, no funding. And that has meant huge delays in getting the DEVVY AWARDS launched properly. As its "founder", if that's the right word, from Day 1's initial ideas at end of December 2009 to open-thread formation discussions and input in January-February, I've never wanted to do some funky little ho-down quickie vote. I've wanted to do it right, setting a very high standard. This took time --- 3, 4 times longer than I imagined as it was just one person, me, doing the behind the scenes prep work -- with one exception -- orb3000 who was kind enough to post about DEVVYS yesterday on XDA portal page. He's been a solid champion & supporter of this project all along.

We had some setbacks, but THE DEVVYS ARE happening; they just weren't quick. Next year? they'll be quick.

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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 #20 below, where it is now archived for transparency of process.

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