WIP Ubuntu Flutter Comunity Desktop Jam

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The Ubuntu Flutter Community is working on a Desktop Flutter Jam. It's in the early stages. Most of the discussion has been on the Discord Server, but I figured I'd post it here in case some people don't keep an eye on the discord.

The rules (attached) sum up what we've got so far, but everything else is up in the air. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions/ want to help let me know down below.

Here's a link to the rules and also just the WIP rules

Ubuntu_Flutter_Community_Jam_Rulesv3.md

#🚀🚀 Flutter Desktop Application Jam 🚀🚀

What is it?

Flutter is a very cool UI SDK, it's cross-platform and ends up looking good on both Windows, macOS and Linux -- even with different Linux experiences. This Flutter Desktop Application Jam is a project by the Ubuntu Flutter Community to make more cool desktop Apps on Linux.

📜📜 Rules 📜📜

1. The Jam would take place over either a weekend or a week, when is to be decided.

2. All app development must be done during the time of the app jam. You can use libraries or cookbooks as long as it's been published for a while somewhere where other people can find them easily, such as GitHub or pub.dev

The spirit of this rule is, don't cheat by posting the project you've worked on the last year, or use your friend's awesome secret library that no one knows about it. And no, posting it the week before the competition doesn't give other people to do it.

3. The apps must be desktop apps, not web or mobile. You can make the app as big or small as you want, but if it's smaller, you might be able to polish it more.

4. The apps must be written using Flutter/Dart. Nothing else is required. You don't have to use our Yaru.dart theme, but it does look pretty nice.

5. All apps must be able to run on Windows, macOS and Linux. So, no windows only libraries in the app. External dependencies are fine, you just need to give us a README telling us how to install them on windows Mac and Linux. Also include easy build instructions in the README so we can build it from source.
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6. All entries can be written by one entry or a team.

7. All entries must be released under an open source license (opensource.org/licenses)

If you have any questions let us know in the Desktop Jam Channel in theUbuntu Flutter Community Discord Server!

📬📬 Submitting 📬📬

I don't exactly know, I'm sure smart people have smarter ideas, but if we want to do something simple, we just create a repo and have people open a PR with their entry. Other ideas like a Google form could work too. If someone cool decides to help, we could get something even fancier...

🕵️🕵️ Judging 🕵️🕵️

All apps will be judged by a secret team of judges who will not be revealed. The apps will be judged by their appearance, ease of use, usefulness and originality. It doesn't have to be useful to everyone but don't make it too niche an app.

For example: A app to help write stories would be something cool, but a flutter app that is built specifically to help your i3 WM layout isn't going to be very useful for us.

🪲 🪲 Clearly, if your app has bugs, your app might have problems being our favorites. Make sure you test it on different devices! 🪲 🪲

There might be multiple catalogizes depending on how many entries we have, but there will be a grand prize and second place.

(Possible catagorizes include, most innovative, app, best app by a team, best solo app, cleanest code, stuff like that)

About originality

Realistically, there are some apps that we've seen a lot of. Apps like Markdown Editors, File Managers, or Music Players (we even have one) Don't let that stop you from making the app of your dreams. Just we might be more inclined to pick a winner that does something different be it, a different kind of app, or a Markdown editor with something we've never seen before.

🎁🎁 Prizes 🎁🎁

I don't know -- it depends on who wants to help.

I do know everyone will win lots of fun and the warm fuzzy feeling of being in an amazing community 🎉🎉. Who knows, you might even get a friend.

Attention The winner and runners-up will get attention on their apps, and themselves. Grand prize for the Ubuntu Flutter Community App Jam would look good on a job application, you might also get some contributors.👀👀

Possible prizes (Brainstorming other things might happen depending on if we can get cool people to help)

Free app packaging your app (if you chose) will be packaged on Linux's amazing app stores.

Steam Gift Card so you can goof off when you're supposed to be coding

Donation to an open source app of your choice Some terms will apply, but instead of having to deal with foreign money transfers, a sum of money could be deposited to one of your favorite open source apps/developers so it can get even better.