8 messages in com.googlegroups.android-challengeRe: Have Ideas, seek programmers| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Charbax | 28 Dec 2007 03:53 | |
| Ahmed Soliman | 28 Dec 2007 05:00 | |
| Tuan23 | 28 Dec 2007 06:51 | |
| Rick Genter | 28 Dec 2007 14:14 | |
| mchiu | 29 Dec 2007 11:14 | |
| Peli | 29 Dec 2007 11:47 | |
| Charbax | 12 Jan 2008 02:59 | |
| Peli | 12 Jan 2008 06:03 |
| Subject: | Re: Have Ideas, seek programmers |
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| From: | Peli (peli...@googlemail.com) |
| Date: | 12/29/2007 11:47:56 AM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.android-challenge |
Hi Charbax,
Is it ok to have some great ideas for Google Android apps but that I am not able to do programming myself?
Yes, that is perfectly ok.
How do I submit those ideas, and is there anyway that I can be rewarded depending on the quality, originality of the ideas in case one of those turns out to be awarded by the Google Android developpers challenge?
I can not speak about the contest as a whole, but I can suggest to you the open source project called OpenIntents we are running: Have a look at: http://code.google.com/p/openintents/
We collect second-best ideas, that is ideas that programmers don't have time to work out, since they want their very best idea to be implemented as good as possible. If you don't intend to implement the idea by yourself, you can of course contribute your very best ideas as well.
If OpenIntents wins, and your idea was one of the ideas that got implemented by other developers, you share 30% of the award with other ideas that got implemented. Plus: If your idea does not get implemented, you share 5% of the award with other ideas that also didn't get implemented. So if you submit an original idea, and OpenIntents wins something, you at least get something for just having had the idea. (see http://code.google.com/p/openintents/wiki/WeShareThePrize )
Listing your idea there does not prevent you or anyone else from implementing the idea independently, though, but that is a risk that you always have whenever you publish the idea in public. It is also not excluded that other people already had the same idea before you had it, or have already implemented it independently. But if you put it into OpenIntents first (and it is not an idea copied from some existing public web-page), you are credited for your idea at least within OpenIntents.
I'd like to just post my ideas here in the Google group openly to seek comments and welcome any developper to consider working on it, would that be a good way to do it, or is it better to keep the ideas for myself, and risk that nothing is made in that direction? Does Google award or keep track of the sharing of good ideas in this forum?
I don't think Google keeps track of sharing good ideas in the forum. To obtain the highest visibility, you could put your ideas to OpenIntents as well as here in this forum.
It may also be a good strategy to first give away just a part of your idea and ask for help by developers, telling them you will reveal your whole idea only after they signed some confidentiality agreement.
It is easier though to just add your ideas to the OpenIntents list of ideas, before someone else does :-) http://code.google.com/p/openintents/wiki/Ideas
Peli