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Popularity killed Jeffs kitchen. [...NOT!]

Its 5 minutes after midnight here in UK, Jeffs kitchen is offline unfortunately. I suppose that shows how popular the kitchen and the XDA developers code has become. I thought it might be a good idea if there was a way of making donations to enable the guys (and gals)? to purchase new kit and the odd bottle of beer and bagels. I for one would be happy to donate, on the basis that if a friend helps with the gardening or whatever, it is common courtesy to offer refreshments.

I had thought about posting a "pass the hat" suggestion, guess I'm too late. Certainly it was a valuable service, as this is.

Yeah guys, someone setup a PayPal account the very least we "users" in the communitiy can do it give you a little bit of beer money.
Thanks for all your hard work.

I am overwhelmed by the offers of donations :roll: could one of the developers please post a paypal account or similar please, if possible, so I can get the ball rolling on this.

Annual xda-developers awards?

Here's an idea that I have that maybe the moderators and the rest of the community can help me expand on.
Since it's award season (e.g. Grammy's, Tony's, Oscar, Golden Globes, etc) I was thinking that we should have an annual xda-developer's awards.
I was thinking that a group of moderators could take cash donations thru paypal or some other means and hand out cash prizes for the awards voted best. The monies could be collected thru out the year that way by award time there should be plenty of money to "hand out as cash prizes" Maybe T-shirts could be printed for nominees.
I was thinking that moderators could choose the nominee's and then the community could vote on the winners. I think it would be counter-intuitive to have the community vote the nominees.
Some of the categories could be as follows:
Best ROM (To include sub-categories for different handsets) and then one overall ROM of the Year.
Most Creative App: (This categories could include apps that aren't IPhone knock off or sims; Trackme and Advanced Configuration come to my mind quickly)
Best IPhone SIM (e.g. IFonz, itask, S2U2, many others)
Best Skin
Best Finger Friendly Application
Best App collaboration (Many people are not just creating apps on their own)
Developer of the Year (Many devs create more than a few apps or create a killer app and should be considered for this award). This allong with APP of the Year should be considered the TOP awards
Can I get some feed back from any mods or the community? Suggestions on prizes and additional categories? Or even if this idea stinks that's cool too.
Ahh we would need a clever name for the awards as well..or would XDA-Developer awards suffice?
Just my two cents.

Great idea!

Really cool idea..I think this way will surely motivate all developers to work even more harder

+1
It should not be so bad! I'm in.

Awesome idea!! I'd love to see this happen.

Some good ol' recognition never hurt anyone. That sounds like a fantastic idea

Best Finger Friendly Application
A_C's S2XXX apps - that's my vote.

Best Rom for the Wing/Herald
I nominate ttran for his Open Touch 3.0 lite
Far Superior to the Stock T-Mobile Rom.

Love it . All of them will rock.........

A_C for best dev ever.

That's really a nice idea, but I don't think it's the way to go. I really don't know why, but it seems that it will cause some trouble at a point. Maybe, it would be better to just simplify by just awarding the title to the respected person(s).
Plus, this is online. You never know if forgery, any or any mishap will come up. Anyways, just a thought. Can't really explain what I'm trying to say. It's all mumbo-jumbo-ed.

think if this is managed properly it could be a brilliant idea
any mods have any views as you guys would have most of the work?

Count me in too. Can't wait for this to happen.

This is a fantastic idea! Even if the reward is just a speacial rank on this site it would help dev's feel as though they have accomplished something and it would also encourage people to daonate.
And for best ROM dev I would nominate YUC for his O2 XDA Stealth ROM which no one eslse has been able to do!
Some one should do a poll in this thread!

Made this into a poll here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=373965
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New App idea! Looking for Android Developer

I am a Technology Consultant by profession and I am fascinated by Android. I have some creative Android App ideas but I am not so good at java so unable to make things work by myself.
That's why I am looking for a developer (Preferably from India) who can help me out with this thing. I cannot pay anything but just looking for someone who has the potential to develop Apps but still did not get any attention.
Why should you help me for free?
1. App's developer section will have your name with me.
2. I guarantee that the App idea I have will be a hit.
3. There is no such application still in the Android Market.
4. You have got nothing to lose.
So if you have the zeal for developing android app and want to be famous (Yes, I believe my app idea is that good), Please leave a comment and we can then discuss things.
Thanks for reading!

okay, I'll bite, but I only develop for android in my spare time.

im in....just PM me or email [email protected]

sure ill help

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[email protected]

thanks!
Thanks for replying guys, I'll contact you by this weekend and discuss the details.

You guarantee your app will take off even though you can't spell correctly. I hope you're right.
Lol, kidding. Good luck.

I have an app idea for the healthcare industry so as you know what that industry has been like for many years you will know anything that can help healthcare and put money in workers' pockets is going to be a winner.
it will also save care homes and the NHS a small fortune.
parliament met me and nearly fell off their chairs they couldn't believe what a great idea it was.
but with a lack of funds its getting it made.
if someone could make it without money upfront I would happily go 50-50 on it.
and i cannot guarantee fame if it took off it would be innevitable.

[Q] App developer(s)???

Heya!!!
If any of you awesome devs out there are interested in bringing some good apps to life, then I'd love the help. I have a lot of ideas and designs for good apps, but I just don't have the know how to bring them to life. I'm working on starting a company made up of various designers in the online community. Our last missing piece is an app developer, so there is an opportunity to make some money. We have a strong business plan and are looking to launch soon. The best part, a portion of all proceeds will be donated to standup2cancer.org, so there is a charitable aspect to all of the work we do.
So if you are a developer and have some time to bring our designs to life, we'd love to hear from you.
Thank you!!
~ Kahil

Hopefully we can bring this optimization to the vibrant

http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/
Amazing speed increase. If any dev can be able to utilize this for vibrant, i'm sure everyone would appreciate it.
I've messaged Jellete, i'll post his response. Or he will...

Wow, that is entirely and completely awesome :-D I want that for the crespo/crespo4g!
Sent from my TabletUI CM9'd NS4G

very interesting video on the same subject - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It8xPqkKxis&feature=player_embedded

Too bad they want like $400 for a basic license for their development tool, and if it's a company they want $1000 for a single seat enterprise license.... that's just nuts.