The Open-Source Software Competition is an important integral part of the ACM Multimedia program. The ACM Multimedia 2010 Open-Source Software Competition is the seventh running competition. It is mainly intended to celebrate and encourage the contribution of researchers and software developers to advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, applications, and other multimedia software.
To qualify for the ACM Multimedia Open-Source Software Competition software must be provided with source code and licensed in such a manner that it can be used free of charge in academic and research settings. For the competition, the software will be built from the sources. All source code, license, installation instructions and other documentation must be available on a public web page. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged with the exception of operating systems and commonly found commercial packages available free of charge.
Authors are encouraged to prepare as much documentation as possible, including examples of how the provided software might be used, download statistics or other public usage information, etc. Entries will be peer-reviewed. Selected authors will be invited to demonstrate their software as part of the conference program and their overview papers will be included in the ACM Multimedia 2010 Conference proceedings.
An overall winning entry will be recognized formally at ACM Multimedia 2010. The criteria for judging all submissions include broad applicability and potential impact, novelty, technical depth, demo suitability, and other miscellaneous factors (e.g., maturity, popularity, student-led, no dependence on closed source, etc.). To encourage more diverse participation, previous years’ non-winning entries are welcome to re-submit for the 2010 competition. Student-led efforts are particularly encouraged.
Manning Publications is sponsoring the competition by donating a selection of books as prizes, that will be awarded to the best three submissions.
Open Source Software Competition
The Open-Source Software Competition is an important integral part of the ACM Multimedia program. The ACM Multimedia 2010 Open-Source Software Competition is the seventh running competition. It is mainly intended to celebrate and encourage the contribution of researchers and software developers to advance the field by providing the community with implementations of codecs, middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, applications, and other multimedia software.
To qualify for the ACM Multimedia Open-Source Software Competition software must be provided with source code and licensed in such a manner that it can be used free of charge in academic and research settings. For the competition, the software will be built from the sources. All source code, license, installation instructions and other documentation must be available on a public web page. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged with the exception of operating systems and commonly found commercial packages available free of charge.
Authors are encouraged to prepare as much documentation as possible, including examples of how the provided software might be used, download statistics or other public usage information, etc. Entries will be peer-reviewed. Selected authors will be invited to demonstrate their software as part of the conference program and their overview papers will be included in the ACM Multimedia 2010 Conference proceedings.
An overall winning entry will be recognized formally at ACM Multimedia 2010. The criteria for judging all submissions include broad applicability and potential impact, novelty, technical depth, demo suitability, and other miscellaneous factors (e.g., maturity, popularity, student-led, no dependence on closed source, etc.). To encourage more diverse participation, previous years’ non-winning entries are welcome to re-submit for the 2010 competition. Student-led efforts are particularly encouraged.
Manning Publications is sponsoring the competition by donating a selection of books as prizes, that will be awarded to the best three submissions.
Submission guidelines
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