(English) Announcing the New FTW Champion: Timothy Dalby!

samedi 29 mai 2010 a 3:59
3 commentaires

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.

3 commentaires

Publié par n/a le 31 mai 2010 a 6:23

One thing I don’t understand.

To enter the competition, the app had to fall into one of three categories, yet to win, it should be in ALL three (according to the FTW page). So basically, the application could suck, but just because it uses all the possible technologies and the others don’t, it wins? Not much of a coding competition in my opinion.

« Find-A-Home revolutionizes »… It’s been done before oh so many times. Not much of a revolution there. It gets boring after the N-th copy. *yawn*
My 2 cents.

Publié par Anon le 2 juin 2010 a 12:00

Really? Where?

So you’re annoyed that somebody followed the instructions and had the gall to do it well?

Bitter comments by ignorant people who like to hear themselves talk? It’s been done before oh so many times. Not much of a revolution there. It gets boring after the N-th copy. *yawn*

Publié par WebNotWar Team le 2 juin 2010 a 1:28

Nope, having it in all three increases your chance to win the bonus prizes. Apps that were submitted are judged on how innovative, useful and creative the app is. The judges (W3Quebec,DeblabMTL,MS) were all pretty unanimous in the final three, and the final three did not use ALL 3 the categories. The wining app, FindAHome, does do something creative enough with the Edmonton OpenData that managed to win over the attendees at MWNW.

Alot of open data apps i’ve seen serve very linear needs (Nearest bus, fire hydrants, toilets etc) But FindAHome actually helps you make a decision on something that’s pretty big for most people (Finding a home).It showcases a different approach to using Open data rather than pointing out the obvious. I’d like to see more of these kind of apps across Canada.

I will make a post highlighting some of the other awesome apps entered, and you’ll see they didn’t suck.

-Arun

Commenter cet article