Yesterday we had our 4th GLOWE meeting.
During this meeting we gave a recap on building widgets and talked a bit about the future of the GLOWE community. There are quite a few things that will be happening this year.
We'll be having a monthly meeting from september on. every second monday of the month to be exact.
We showed a glimps on how you will be able to distribute your widgets in the near future with Gloweme.
there will also be several upcoming events from september on. More details on all of this soon!

check out yesterdays 3 powerpoint slides here, here and here.
EDIT: I almost forgot something very important. Tom gave a presentation of his pukkelpop widget. You can find his presentation right here.

Another important thing is that we're having a new contest.
Create a widget of your own choice. Multiple widgets can enter the contest.
From 1 september to 15 september you will be able to upload your widget to Gloweme. During this period Gloweme will be in closed beta. But offcourse You can already start building widgets. Then you will only need to upload them.
A winner will be chosen at the end of september and will be announced 29th of september.

The widgets will be judged on the following criteria:

• Coding Style and Complexity (server widgets, web services used, Services Created)


• Originality (RSS feeds aren't original :-) )


• Usefulness


• Usability


• Design


• File size


• Bandwidth usage

The grand prize is a Nintendo Wii console.