Trolltech Announces TheKompany.com's Shawn Gordon Named Winner of Qtopia Worldwide Developers Contest
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THE RESULTS ARE IN - TROLLTECH ANNOUNCES DEVELOPER CONTEST WINNER
TheKompany.com's Shawn Gordon named winner of Qtopia Worldwide Developers
Contest; wins $10K plus cool Sharp gear
OSLO, Norway and SANTA CLARA, Calif. - June 11, 2002 - Trolltech today
announced Shawn Gordon as the winner of its Qtopia Worldwide Developer
Contest. His design, called Jabber, is a commercially-available instant
messaging client for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D.
According to Gordon, Jabber encompasses virtually every form of Internet
communication other than email, all in one system. Jabber facilitates
numerous Zaurus communication functions using networking and sophisticated
dialogs to easily manage multiple connections and conversations. With
Jabber, users can interface to MSN Chat, AIM, ICQ, IRC and Yahoo Chat when
the selected server is configured to use them.
Gordon is President of TheKompany.com, a worldwide group of advanced
developers who create software for Linux. As the grand-prize winner, Shawn
received $10,000 cash (USD), plus a Sharp big-screen TV, a Sharp home stereo,
and a Sharp PC-UM10 laptop. Trolltech initiated the contest in December of
2001 to help encourage innovative applications for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D,
the first Linux-based PDA from a major consumer electronics powerhouse. The
contest, which concluded in February 2002, offered prizes to applications in
five categories: games, entertainment/educational, business, system tools,
and communications.
"We thought this contest would be a great way to help introduce the world to
the Zaurus, embedded Linux, and Qtopia," says Haavard Nord, CEO of Trolltech.
"The high degree of interest for this contest is a clear indication of
developer momentum on Qtopia for the Sharp Zaurus. Announced earlier this
year, Qtopia has been used to develop many successful multi-platform
applications for embedded Linux, and is on its way to becoming the standard."
Gordon says that building his application with Trolltech products was both
rewarding and easy. "Qt is the ultimate development framework; and
Trolltech did an excellent job in bringing that same functionality to
embedded devices. We are able to churn out a huge amount of code quickly and
with fewer resources than ever before, thanks to Qtopia."
Runner up design finalists included:
* Taskman - Erik Agsjo, Sweden
* Froot - Scheuermann Thorsten, United States
* Powerchord - Camilo Mesias, United Kingdom
* SMS Suite - Nick Hingston, UK
* Korganizer - Cornelius Schumacher, Germany
* Honorary Mention: KinkattaLite - Benjamin Meyer, United States
Runner up winners in each category received a Sharp PC-UM10 Laptop.
Contest judges included editors from leading Linux publications including
Linux Magazine and Linux Devices as well as a lead developer from Trolltech,
and were based on functionality, ease of use, documentation, performance,
efficiency, and originality. Entries had to function with the Sharp Zaurus
Qt Palmtop SL-5000D and be compiled with Qt/Embedded, version 2.3.2. The
applications are available on www.MyZaurus.com.
About Qtopia
Qtopia is a Linux-based application environment designed to make mobile
computing simple, powerful, intuitive, and flexible. A complete environment,
Qtopia's intuitive and customizable user interface provides near-desktop
power on mobile embedded devices.
About Trolltech
Trolltech's flagship products are Qt and Qtopia. Qt is a multiplatform C++
application framework that lets developers write single-source applications
that run-natively-on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and embedded Linux. Qt
has been used to build thousands of successful commercial applications
worldwide, and is the basis of the open source KDE desktop environment.
Qtopia is the first comprehensive application environment built for embedded
Linux, and is used in Sharp's new Zaurus SL5500 personal mobile tool.
Trolltech is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices in Brisbane,
Australia, and Santa Clara, California. More about Trolltech can be found at
www.trolltech.com.
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