QtCentre Programming Contest 2008

09 April - 2008 - QtCentre launced the second edition of the Qt Programming Contest, the only programming contest focused on the Qt®/ Qtopia® community. Last year a range of innovative Qt-based applications were awarded with various electronic devices - Qtopia enabled mobile phones, laptop, recreational devices, various books on software development and more. Perhaps more important, the contestants were shown to the Qt community and new contacts between developers were made.

“I participated in the contest last year primarily for getting expert validation and review for my project (GCF - Generic Component Framework). After the contest, I got a sound validation and more. GCF won 3rd place in Helper Library category, people started using the project, I met a lot of wonderful people later that year when I presented the project at FOSS.IN, I might get a chance to present GCF at aKademy this year, and I am also able to extract commercial benefit out of the project through the consulting work we do from our company (VCreate Logic). QtCentre Programming Contest is a great platform to showcase code; and even if you lose you win - atleast someone highly experienced in the field would have taken a real good look at your code,”  says Prashanth N Udupa, Software Developer, VCreate Logic (P) Ltd. - Author of GCF and VTK Designer 2.

This year’s contest accepts entries in the following categories: collaboration, education, project management, automation, demo, plasmoid and newcomer. The QtCentre staff are looking forward to a new range of contestants that will surprise the community with their quality, innovation and playfulness.

“Trolltech’s Qt makes it possible for developers to concentrate on the creative process. I regard the QtCentre Programming Contest as an arena for developers to inspire each other while using Qt for new and interesting purposes. Qt allows developers to be innovative and to program, only once, a range of different applications that work across desktops and devices,” says Lars Knoll, VP of Engineering at Trolltech.

It would not have been possible to hold the contest without the generous sponsors contributing judges and prizes. 
 

About Trolltech
Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech’s Qt is used in popular software such as Skype®, Google Earth, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements, Lucasfilm® and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech’s Qtopia® has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech’s software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.

Trolltech’s products enable companies to easily build and deploy software across a wide range of operating systems and electronic devices. The company serves desktop and embedded application providers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile vendors, who face challenges in delivering user-friendly and differentiated software. Trolltech enables customers to accelerate innovation, shorten time to market and increase revenues. Trolltech’s software improves the user experience by increasing the appeal and quality of customer's applications on desktop and devices. The future proof Qt software allows developers to code less, create more and deploy anywhere.

Trolltech supports open source and commercial customers. The company has offices in California, U.S.A.; Brisbane, Australia; Beijing, China; Berlin and Munich, Germany; Oslo, Norway. It is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TROLL. For more information about Trolltech, please visit www.trolltech.com.

About QtCentre – The Ultimate Qt Community Site
QtCentre is the leading independent Qt forum. In addition, it hosts a wiki filled with in-depth Qt articles. The goal is to provide the Qt community with answers and information. QtCentre is used by the vibrant community surrounding Qt. The centre is one of the few sites actively used by both the open source community and proprietary users of Qt.

For more information about the contest, rules and registration information, please visit http://contest.qtcentre.org.