We are ready to announce the results of the PocketBook applications developers competition. You can see a list of applications, that have taken prizes, below.
Taking in account that sales of new PocketBook 360° have been started, every winner can choose the model he wants to get by prize (or get with discount): PocketBook 301+ (in "Standard" complectation) or PocketBook 360°.
Also every participant will get 50 hryvnias on his balance in the BookLand shop.
For any questions about getting the prizes please apply to the "PocketBook Free" project leader Tikhon Tarnavskiy.
First prize – free e-book
Memorum – foreign languages learning
memorum_instal.rar
memorum_files.rar
memorum_emu.7z
memorum_emu.zip
Player of interactive books (text quests)
qsp.7z
qsp.zip
Game "Checkers"
pbcheckers.7z
pbcheckers.zip
Second prize – e-book with 50% discount
Subway plans viewer
metro.7z
metro.zip
Japan crosswords
crosspix.7z
crosspix.zip
Game "Sokoban"
Sokoban.7z
Sokoban.zip
Third prize – e-book with 30% discount
Game "Minesweeper"
miner.7z
miner.zip
Board for "Goe" game
goe.7z
goe.zip
Scientific calculator
calc.7z
calc.zip
Terminal emulator
poterm.7z
poterm.zip
Applications that take part in the competition
We have finished to accept applications for the competition. Here is the list of participating applications.
Board for "Goe" game
Game "Checkers"
Japan crosswords
Terminal emulator
Subway plans viewer
You can find the installation manual and links to subway plans for great amount of cities here.
Game "Sokoban"
Memorum – foreign languages learning
Application for e-book (copy "system" and "games" folders from the archive to the book's root folder): memorum_instal.rar
Sample files and program for converting files from different formats: memorum_files.rar
Application for emulator (run as "memorum.exe file.mcl" or drag-n-drop mcl-file on the application file in explorer):
memorum_emu.7z
memorum_emu.zip
Player of interactive books (text quests)
Installation manual and link to interactive books here.
One more variant of "Checkers"
Calendar
Scientific calculator
Game "Minesweeper"
Developers competition dates extended
Meeting the wishes of participants and taking into consideration that competition goes the same time as high school exams, organizators decided to prolong the competition for a month. We will accept new applications till August, 15 and announce results after August, 20.
Other competition rules stay the same:
- everyone, who developed a new application for the PocketBook, can take a participation in the competition;
- prizes are PocketBooks 301+ and discounts (50% and 30%) for them; number of prizes is not limited;
- winners will be determined by 5 judges, named before.
Competition for developers
MOST Publishing, the producer of electronic books PocketBook, and a new project PocketBook Free announce a competition for opensource e-book applications. To participate in competition you do not need to have a PocketBook. The PocketBook SDK allows to build an application in emulation mode and run it on a PC.
The number of first, second and third places is not limited. Judges can give prizes to any amount of applications in dependence of a total number of the participants.
PocketBook Free competition prizes are: electronic books PocketBook and large discounts for them.
- First prize – electronic book PocketBook 301+
- Second prize – 50% discount for PocketBook 301+
- Third prize – 30% discount for PocketBook 301+
Competition dates: from the 2nd June till 15th July, 2009.
Date of announcing results: 20th July, 2009.
All participating applications will be licensed under GPL (3 version), if another license is not specified by the application author.
Judges: Tikhon Tarnavskiy (PocketBook Free project author), active participants of e-book users community – Vladimir Boroda, Dmitriy Gribov (Litres), Alexey Mihalev and Vladimir Prohorenkov (The-eBook).
Send your applications to: PocketBook Free
Project address: pocketbook-free.sf.net
Project forum: PocketBook Free
PocketBook Free project site is opened offically
PocketBook Free project site is opened. You will be able to find here:
- project news
- links to applications sources
- links to software development kit
- forum for discussing any questions related to the project (coming soon)
Site address: pocketbook-free.sf.net.