Aral Balkan

I announced at my talk yesterday at FITC that I've extended the deadline for the SWX contest to give FITC and next month's Flash on the Beach attendees enough time to take part in it.

The new deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT) on December 2nd, 2007.

Public voting for the submissions will take place from December 10th-16th and winners will be announced on December 24, 2007.

So, if you've been holding off on entering due to time constraints, go ahead and reconsider, you just got a deadline extension. And if you've already sent in your submission, you now have some extra time to refine it if you need to.

Finally, to clarify the rules: Only entries in the APIs category need to be released under the open source MIT license. For entries in the web and mobile categories, you can submit a link to the project along with a description of how SWX RPC is used in your site or application.

Comments

• Ditto here. I'm currently moving all the stuff on my game portal site (www.thecodezone.com) from remoting to SWX, as that Flash Lite 'll trivialize getting the site to work on Flash Lite clients. Also, I wasn't planning to open-source my site :) One note. The contest page still says that the deadline is 10/28.

  by John Hattan on 2007-10-24 15:36:45

• Excellent news. I'd given up on my API effort as there wasn't enough time for me to complete it. An extra month is great news! Thanks.

  by David Arno on 2007-10-24 07:46:48

• [...] Aral Balkan, recently created  a new flash-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) package called SWX. To promote the product, and encourage further development, he  had organised a competition with some really great prizes, including Adobe Web Suite Premium, a Nabaztag/tag bunny and an iPod Touch. The downside was that he announced the competition in early October and had a closing date at the end of October. So I - probably along with a bunch of others - looked at the idea, thought the prizes were great, but  decided I didn’t have time. If like me, you therefore abandoned your plans, then great news: the deadline has been extended to the 2nd December. If you hadn’t heard about it before, go to his competition page and read up on it, then get designing/ developing (though make a rubbish job of it if you are doing API stuff please as I want those prizes!) [...]

  by David Arno’s Blog » Don’t just talk about SWX; do it! on 2007-10-24 08:03:59

• SWX Contest deadline verschoven... Op het FITC event heeft Aral tijdens zijn sessie daar, aangekondigd dat de SWX contest deadline datum is verschoven. Dit om de bezoekers van de FITC en van Flash on The Beach de mogelijkheid te geven mee te doen aan de contest. De nieuwe deadline is o...

  by Nederflash on 2007-10-24 09:50:05

• [...] Via Aral, te deadline for the SWX contest has been extended to allow other developers to partecipate to the contest. Deadline is now December 2nd, 2007. Remember there is a mobile section for the contest. Check out the rules. [...]

  by biskero.org on 2007-10-24 13:19:05

• Thanks for clarifying the open source requirements -- that was my main reason for not entering the galtogal site!

  by Jon MacDonald on 2007-10-24 15:59:41

• @David: That's great news! Good luck with your API :) @John: Coolness! And thanks for the heads up on the site. I fixed the contest page and updated the date on the main SWX page too. @Jon: Great! I hope the extended deadline will mean that you get the chance to enter the other sites you're working with SWX too. (Was great to meet you person at FITC, btw.)

  by Aral on 2007-10-24 17:15:35

• [...] Vía Aral, nos enteramos que el plazo para la entrega de trabajos y poder concursar en el SWX Contest, se alarga hasta el 2 de diciembre, por lo que tenéis más tiempo para preparar vuestras aplicaciones. [...]

  by BlocketPc | Desarrollo Flash Lite sobre Symbian y Windows Mobile on 2007-10-24 18:09:43

• [...] Aral Balkan just announced he extended the deadline for the SWX competition to midnight December 2nd (GMT). So… no “not enought time” excuses anymore! [...]

  by Aboutme - blog » Blog Archive » SWX contest deadline extended on 2007-10-24 19:00:59

• super! i was considering to participate but since the deadline was so short.. now i'm sure i have enough time to try to make something cool =).

  by Supermaggel on 2007-10-29 18:11:51

• Cool! Looking forward to seeing your entry :)

  by Aral on 2007-10-29 19:19:52