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Hello Everyone!

Yesterday we had a unique GLOWE meeting.
First of all, We gave away the Wii to our GLOWE contest winner.

Secondly we had a brainstorm about the GLOWE community and about motivation. We want the GLOWE community to be even more enthousiastic and motivated and because of this, we've decided that everyone should be able to have more input. An example could be that the community should organize the next meetings on their own. A first step in this direction is apointing a new moderator from within the GLOWE community. For his consistent additions to GLOWE and persistancy we asked Tom Claus to become the first new moderator on glowe.org. Congratulations Tom!
In the near future we hope to see the community take over even more and organize events for and by the GLOWE core members!

May the GLOWE surround you all!

The GLOWE contest has begun.
Register by pressing the button on this form.

GloweMe has gone live! (in closed Beta)
You can check it out on http://gloweme.com.
GloweMe is the perfect tool for GLOWE developers to spread their widgets. Thanks to a "on the fly building mechanism" GloweMe can provide 1 Java application for 1 widget. Another neat feature is a flash version of every Widget. That means you can preview any widget before downloading it to your cellphone. But the thing that makes GloweMe even more great is that you can embed the flash version of a widget on your own site !
This also means the GloweMe contest can officially begin and you can upload your widgets to gloweme.com and might win a Nintendo Wii console. If you want to participate you can register yourself at http://gloweme.com. For now the site is in closed beta. My guess is that most people will be accepted in registering for GloweMe but the number of registrants is limited for now. But offcourse, if you want to use or download a widget, you don't need to register. (Do please send an extra mail to erdem@glowe.org if you want to compete for the Nintendo Wii. That way I'll know for sure if you want the grand prize or not.)

Tom the webraider, promoted his pukkelpop widget today amongst his friends thru GloweMe. He just embeded his widget on his site like so:

Click here to see the pukkelpop widget on GloweMe

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.