Excuse me, but...

[m.alessandrini]

How much time does it take to make a link to at least the PDFs of the projects so people can see which projects are participating???
Thanks
Michele

[Michiel]

Some time ago there were links to the PDFs. Then they disappeared a few hours later. I guess there must be a reason.

[wysota]

The reason was that we were unable to remove email addresses from those pdfs and we didn't want to publish private data. Sorry for that, but it seems there is nothing we can do about it.

[m.alessandrini]

And so? Are you saying that the contest will finish (winner included) and all people will get will be: "We announce you that project xyz won, but we won't tell you what it is"?
Aren't you afraid you will have no sponsors anymore next year? (let alone participants)
Michele

[wysota]

And so? Are you saying that the contest will finish (winner included) and all people will get will be: "We announce you that project xyz won, but we won't tell you what it is"?
No, it's not that bad :) In the worst case you just won't see preliminary project descriptions.
If you have a way of removing the e-mails from PDF files, we're willing to listen and follow your guidance. So far the only thing that comes to my mind is to dump those PDFs as images and remove emails from resulting images.

[m.alessandrini]

I understand your problem (need to remove e-mail from PDFs).
Here is some (naive) ideas coming to my mind:
1) Try an opensource software called pdfedit (but I'm afraid it's still in early beta)
2) Ask forum and find a member who owns Adobe Acrobat Pro (and trust him).
3) Ask participants to re-send the PDF without e-mail address.
4) I once read (but never tested) that a free way to edit PDF is converting them to Postscript (easy done with printing facilities in linux), then editing it with one of the many publishing softwares that import Postscript (like Scribus), then re-publish as PDF.

I understand that all these solutions are not so optimal, tough.
Bye
Michele

[wysota]

I understand your problem (need to remove e-mail from PDFs).
Here is some (naive) ideas coming to my mind:
1) Try an opensource software called pdfedit (but I'm afraid it's still in early beta)
2) Ask forum and find a member who owns Adobe Acrobat Pro (and trust him).

4) I once read (but never tested) that a free way to edit PDF is converting them to Postscript (easy done with printing facilities in linux), then editing it with one of the many publishing softwares that import Postscript (like Scribus), then re-publish as PDF.

The problem is text there has to be rendered as text, which might not always be the case and frankly we've more important things to do now, so this has to wait. Once the evaluation machine starts rolling, we can think of making those projects available. I guess the most important thing is the abstract telling what the project is about and it shouldn't be a problem to publish that info.

3) Ask participants to re-send the PDF without e-mail address.
Yes, that came to my mind as well.

[marcel]

Hey, I have access to Acrobat Pro and I am willing to remove those addresses from there. And of course, I will try not to look at them as I delete them :).

I hope those pdf's don't have any weird font encodings.

Regards

[wysota]

Some time ago there were links to the PDFs. Then they disappeared a few hours later. I guess there must be a reason.

Project descriptions are back for public viewing.

http://contest.qtcentre.org/projects

[m.alessandrini]

Wonderful, thanks to everybody (and a little to me too :) ...)
Can I suggest something for the next year: why not make a downloadable openoffice template for the submission form, to be completed by participants and returned as odt or pdf?
Bye
Michele

[wysota]

There are many things to improve or change. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Jeroen van der Waal]

Hi,

These two entries exists in The Qt Centre Programming Contest Finalists

Marble Widget Torsten Rahn, Inge Wallin
Marble Desktop Globe Torsten Rahn, Inge Wallin

I guess there should only be one? Or are they both going for different categories?

Cheers,

Jeroen

[wysota]

They are in different categories - one is a widget, the other is an application.