I agree whole heartedly with Michael here, Personally, I prefer competitions that have a goal based upon the end user experience rather than technologies the application utilises. So "build an app which encourages the over 60s to listen to BBC 1xtra" rather than "build an app using AIR".
Again, the focus is on the what, rather than the how. Andy (positively personal opinion, surely) On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]/ >
