On Thursday 03 July 2008 16:41:00 Ian Forrester wrote: .. > If we ran a competition which required the final prototype to be in Adobe > Air, how would people feel about that?
Suppose Blue Peter ran a competition for a new toy, but required that children only use Lego, what that be reasonable? I think the discussion has gone off at a tangent (largely due to political ranting presented as fact and the One True Truth). It strikes me that you're asking how would people feel we ran a competion that required a particular vendor's technology. I'd personally feel that the vendor should run the competition myself. (just feels like free advertising otherwise) That's obviously my personal views though. /Personally/ I think it would be more appropriate to suggest a competition where the result was a cross platform desktop application which should work on (say) Windows, Mac os X and Linux (and ideally not limited to those, but they're the most common). That opens up the doors to a variety of different things, including Adobe Air. I suspect you'd get a lot more interesting variety - since you'd also open it up to all sorts of things (including tech from the BBC...). ie focus the competition on the what, rather than the how. Regarding Alia's question I think you'd need to clarify if this is a "competition without a prize" which would probably mean BBC people could join in, or whether it was competition with a prize, in which case we probably couldn't... (cf competition rules in even things like Doctor Who Adventures magazine :-) That said, any competition is better than none - after all, its the taking part and having fun that matters... :-) Regards, Michael. (all personal thoughts) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
