India's Premier Software Developer Awards Now Open!

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Stage I Longlist Nominations Now Open. Closes 12 Jan 2009
Stage II Shortlist Announcement on 19 Jan 2009
Stage III Voting on Shortlist Commences. Closes on 23 Mar 2009
Stage IV Shortlist Votes are consolidated. High Stature Jury Picks the winners.
Winners to be Announced on 25 Apr 2009

Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honor trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. A highly participatory process, the decision is staggered across four stages. Stages I through III involve a democratic community participation with longlists and shortlists for each category, and subsequent voting on those lists. Stage IV involves counting and consolidation of the votes and selection of winners by an esteemed panel of judges who also place a special emphasis on the outcome of the voting process.

Award Categories

• This award honors an individual (IT decision maker, analyst, architect, engineer, project manager, designer, or programmer) who best promotes and supports the IT developer ecosystem in India. This award is open to individuals from both IT as well as non-IT companies. Everyone can vote on this award.

• This award recognizes an Indian committer who best exemplifies support for the larger IT community through newsgroups, Bugzilla, white papers, conference presentations, blogs and other forums. Everyone can vote for this award.

• An IT company (multi-national or home-grown, large or small) that is not only a leader in adopting and developing using the latest cutting-edge tools, frameworks, platforms, and best practices, but also applying its leadership assets to its customer portfolio.

• These awards recognize the product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity, across 12 different categories. The selection criteria applied by an international stature panel places emphasis on functionality, usability, innovation excellence, bleeding-edge quotient, and feedback from the developer ecosystem.

• Nominate from the new breed programming languages, source code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs).

• Nominate from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities.

• Nominate from content creation, categorization, workflow, publishing and delivery tools.

• Rquirements gathering, modeling, prototyping, GUI design, analysis tools, including automatically generating code from models.

• Nominate from across tools that track and manage software defects and enhancement requests as well as version control and change or configuration management.

• The best solution developed to test the functionality of a software product or service or a segment of code. Nominate from across test scripting, automation, static and defect tracking, bug tracking and documentation, functional and load testing, quality assurance planning, test-case design, white- and black-box testing and source code analysis.

• Nominate tools from across authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam prevention.

• Nominate from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.

• Awards the best software application, software service or infrastructure solution that enables access to software functionality and boosts the productivity and adaptability of a mobile device – including small form factor devices and/or phones. Includes operating systems, infrastructure and network solutions.

• Nominate from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developer’s treasure chest.

• Awards the best software solution for the storage, organization, management, search and retrieval of large quantities of data.

• A single book can change your course as a developer. Nominate from across several hundred titles in 2007-08 that have positively impacted your life in the developer ecosystem.

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