NANY 2011: Event Update
NANY 2011 is a bit of an experiment this year, in an effort to maximise the fun and productivity of the event we decided to start NANY midway through the year giving the coders the ability to start the process early and aim to build a substantial new project.
We are now halfway through the event and to date we've seen a steady rate of Pledges and a great deal of activity around the Entrants who have released Teasers and opened up their projects for forum discussions.
NANY PledgesNANY Entrants pledge that they are going to release a new application for the New Year at some stage before December by posting a Pledge Thread on the
NANY 2011 Board, instructions can be found
here.
To date we've had
27 Pledges!
The NANY challenge, although competed by individuals or groups, is performed in the midst of the community and offers the DonationCoder community ample opportunity to get involved with the event through the
N.A.N.Y. 2011 forum. Find a project that interests you and get involved with its development: feature discussions, bug testing and Teaser feedback. It's great to see the development of general forum interest as the event progresses:
It's exciting to see the NANY pledges capture the interest of the DC Community, in particular
TaskDaddy and
Auspex have generated a lot of discussion!
Teasers: Feedback RequiredTeasers are a way for the NANY Entrants to give prospective users the opportunity to play with an early build and hopefully get some valuable feedback for the development.
- Webcam Diary
Mouser decided on this application based on a Poll -- now he's asking for feedback on what features users want in a Webcam Recording/Diary Utility. Now is the perfect opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this application's development! - DCDisplay
DCDisplay will be a replacement for CDisplay (which hasn't been worked on for years). - Scion Character Manager
An electronic character sheet for a RPG called Scion that tracks character stats, calculates dice pools for all the basic actions, and allows the user to add their own actions, weapons, purviews, knacks, and rules that get auto calculated. - TaskDaddy
TaskDaddy takes a single line of input from you and turns it into an Outlook task without having to open the full interface of Outlook. It's intended to be a quick way to input tasks. It is inspired by Bob Menke's Add Task script, written in VBScript. It works as both a GUI and a command line tool. DaddyDave also has a Features Poll to get user feedback on Future / Missing features. - NetLaunch (Now with GUI!)
Netlaunch is a program to launch applications based on Network status. It functions in both Agent (GUI) and command-line form. - Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
Auspex will present the busy PC user with several enhanced input features: Replacements, Completions, Corrections, Runs and the Big Clipper. - ContactFX 0.0.2.0
A versatile Addressbook and Contacts editor with FARR integration.
Are you a Coder just itching to get in on the act?We've had specific requests for an enterprising entrant who's keen to fulfil someone else's dream. If you're keen to participate but are looking for an idea why not check these out and contact the author for more details?
Volunteers Anyone can get involved with the NANY event by offering their talents to the hard working entrants to help with the ancillary aspects of their entries. Volunteering on NANY projects is a great way for everyone to get involved with the Event, coders and non-coders alike!
We also have some great tools to give-away to help you get the job done:
Add your name to the list and get involved over in this thread:
NANY 2011 :: Calling All Volunteers and Entrants wanting a handIf you can help with the following specific requests please get in touch with the Entrant directly (and let me know if you want to take advantage of the software give-away):
Alphabetical List of Pledges
Recent Posts
Board games! really?! how many board games can a user develop? I can honestly say that I have never had even the slightest inkling to create a board game. I must be the only normal one here.
-superboyac (September 14, 2010, 11:11 PM)
Thanks for participating: I hope you enjoy your NANY Volunteering