NOMINATIONS FOR DEVVY AWARDS 2010
Peer-to-Peer Recognition of Outstanding Achievement by Fellow Devs of Touchscreen Apps
Peer-to-Peer Recognition of Outstanding Achievement by Fellow Devs of Touchscreen Apps
Status Update: Jan 19 2011 
Thank you for your patience as we’ve recovered now from our contracted developer’s sudden dropout.
We still have some explanatory screencasts to produce and a few backend hookups. If all goes well
we may very well be live in one week. For EACH O.S., there are 12 separate Devvy Award nominations.
This is the inaugural year for The Devvys, and we’ve learned how hard it is to fully resource a team
to establish a new system of recognition free of the tech industry’s insider-game mentality of
empaneling themselves as experts, or hand-picking elite judges from gurus who may or may not
be qualified to render opinions on engineering matters that only developers themselevs understand
by actually making product. Or through direct conflicts of interest favoring software that’s been
advertised then reviewed on their networks. We’re confident that you, the developers -- the people
who will nominate and vote on all recognition awards -- will see the very different approach taken
by the Devvys, starting with a complete break with conventional classification of awards typically
grouped by content categories and genres. Not here.
-- Richard Hoefer, Devvy Awards Coordinator, San Francisco, California
-- Richard Hoefer, Devvy Awards Coordinator, San Francisco, California