I haven't jumped into the post-submission challenge discussion much, so I figured it's about time. I think there will be fewer individual winners than team winners and fewer team winners than business winners. The more people/money you have, the more talent you get. Also, you get more "ideas" for applications or application features. It's similar to asking someone to review your resume when applying for a job. They can point out things you've missed and the little details and errors make a difference.
I've submitted a few applications to the challenge, but I'm quite confident I will NOT be a winner. I had time to polish and I find implementing features fairly easy. The problem for me is coming up with good ideas. Keyword being "good". On May 6, 5:48 pm, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree with you. I would be really surprised if most of the > winners were not individuals and small teams. Why? Because most of the > new ideas come from individuals and small teams in my opinion. > Assuming that the distribution of good ideas is the same among > individuals and corporations then I think we should have more > individuals (and small teams) winning. > > On May 6, 8:21 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > My $.02. > > > The Android Challenge community is most likely identical to other > > online communities. > > > If so, then <5% of the people entering into the Google Challenge are > > actually active participants in the community. That would be in line > > with the number of Challenge submissions as 1788 * .05 = 100 is > > roughly the number of people that posted to the ChallengeMeter post. > > > Given that we've seen mostly individual Challenge participants posting > > here, my guess is the majority of the non-posters are the company & > > team submitters. Since those team/company submissions are most likely > > to win due to greater time/effort spent on their submissions, the > > majority of the top 50 winners are probably people that have not been > > active in this community. > > > If you followed all that, this is the unfortunate reality of most > > communities...i.e. that the many benefit from the posts of the few. > > With a new product like Android, it's guaranteed that every Challenge > > submission benefited greatly from the dialogue in these communties, > > but sadly few of those who benefited probably gave back to that same > > community (ie. were active posters). > > > So the short end of my answer is "No...I wouldn't expect many people > > who are posting to this community to have many hits from the judges as > > we're probably not in the top 50." I REALLY hope I'm just being > > cynical and pessimistic...but then again, that would mean this > > community is unlike the majority of online communities out there. > > > This isn't a diss at Google or online communities, but simple the sad > > fact of our society in general. > > > Now please...please...let me be proven wrong when the winners are > > announced...! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
