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2009-1 Competition Results

Firstly thanks to all those who took part - for most of us it was hard to rank all the great entries we received, all your submissions were great and we hope you enjoyed taking part!

Judging

Serving as the judges in this competition were Tim Ellis (foonas, NAS-Central community leader), Dave Taylor (NAS-Central core member), Brian Waite (NAS-Central core member and formerly kurobox community leader) and Marcus Toth (NAS-Central core member and formerly linkstation wiki community leader). Also you got your vote at the forums here.

Scoring

We take the top three entries from each person and the forum. First place gets three points, second gets two points and third gets one point. If there is a draw from a results source for a place the points are added to all parties.

Results

Forum Vote

1 - Fvdw - Rewrite and Upgrade SPD8020 Philips Firmware - 9 Votes
2 - Bbradley - qcontrol - 4 Votes
3= - Davygravy - OsKuroBox (LateNight CritterCamPlus) - 2 Votes
3= - Ramuk - Alpha 220 LED Sign - 2 Votes

Tim

1) - Bbradley, qcontrol

This is one great little app. Button control, LED feedback and other such things are often taken for granted on most devices - when they are gone you certainly miss them! Undoubtably my favorite, the only reason I'm voting this number one over the N1200 kernel is it applies to many devices from all sorts of manufacturers. Well done for both!

2) - Davygravy, OsKuroBox (LateNight CritterCamPlus)

I like this, its a genuinely useful setup thats good for users - good work.

3) - Ramuk, Alpha 220 LED Sign

This has numerous uses and shows some thinking outside the box (get it??? *groan*) - plus I'm a sucker for flashy lights and extra gadgets. Great work.

Dave

Even with only 5 entries, it was hard ranking them. They are all very useful and innovative. After a great deal of cogitating I've come up with my 3 favorites. They were all very close, but here they are, in order....

1) - Fvdw, Rewrite and Upgrade SPD8020 Philips Firmware

2) - Davygravy, OsKuroBox (LateNight CritterCamPlus)

3) - Bbradley, Linux Kernel for Thecus N1200

Brian

1) - Ramuk, Alpha 220 LED Sign

I really like the use of a NAS as an embedded applicance. Moving from straight SW to a hardware/software solution put this at a higher level of out-of-the box-ish-ness

2) - Fvdw, Rewrite and Upgrade SPD8020 Philips Firmware

This looks like a great effort. It is hard trying to build new firmware that has the UI feel of a poduction firmware. This entry made me want to buy a new device just to try it out.

3) - Bbradley, Linux Kernel for Thecus N1200

What can I say. Getting stuf into mainline is a excersie in patience. Good job

Marcus

1) - Bbradley, qcontrol

Its an application that has been developed with extensibility towards new devices in mind....and i think it had the biggest impact as far as i can judge. qcontrol is and will be useful....even on new devices -> thats great. Therefore this is my clear winner.

2) - Fvdw, Rewrite and Upgrade SPD8020 Philips Firmware

Well....why choose this project for second place? i guess i am biased :) . Someone remembers OpenLink for the LS1/HG/HS (all ppc based)? I know very well what fvdw had to do to enhance the existing firmware.....finding out how to extract/modify the rootfs properly, find out how to properly repackage the firmware.....find out how the webinterface works so enhancing/modifying/bugfixing is possible.....thats exactly what i had to deal with when i released openlink 0.7x for these devices....and it was fun to see others using my version of the firmware...and even more fun to see them running into bugs that i introduced :). Therefore second place even though it is device-dependent.

3) - Ramuk, Alpha 220 LED Sign

Third place. Device independent. Funny. Probably useful. I haven`t seen anyone else doing this. At first i wanted to give davygravy the third price....but then i noticed his submission was VERY similar to the http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Sekuro-box submitted by sylver a while ago. Sorry davy, congrats ramuk.

I guess much work has been done to achieve the Thecus N1200 linux port.....and normally it would have been on rank 2......but i only vote once for each person. Sorry bbradley :)

Final Scores

Fvdw - SPD8020 Philips Firmware Re-Write and Upgrade - 10 points

Bbradley - qcontrol - 8 points

Ramuk - Alpha 220 LED Sign - 6 points

Davygravy - LateNight CritterCamPlus - 5 points

Bbradley - Thecus N1200 Kernel - 2 points

Congratulations!

fvdw takes first prize of the Zyxel NSA-220, Bbradley the Lacie Network Space and Ramuk the Olimex USB-OCD device - emails will go out to the winners this weekend for prize shipping addresses. Well done all!
 



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