Contest Rules and Overview

The contest will take place in two stages: First, one hundred finalists will be selected from proposals submitted on or before January 5, 2001. Their names and the titles of their projects will be announced on February 1, 2001. Each finalist will receive an embedded Linux board as a prize.

On August 1, 2001, entries will be due from finalists. Final entries are to be in the form of a web site for your project, including relevant plans, a bill of materials, photos, documentation and source code. Description and documentation of your project count!

By entering this contest, you agree to allow the contest sponsors to copy and redistribute any of the materials you submit, except your address and phone number, in any medium. We will also keep your e-mail address confidential, if you wish.

At our discretion, we will mail additional hardware and/or software to the finalists if it becomes available to us. We will not spam you, but we will provide e-mail and web forums for discussing the contest.

All software developed for the contest must be released under a free license. For purposes of this contest, a "free license" is one that is listed in BOTH "OSI Approved Licenses" at http://opensource.org/licenses/ AND ALSO in the Free Software Foundation's "GPL-Compatible, Free Software Licenses" at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

Employees of SSC, Tri-M Engineeering, M-Systems, and ZF Linux, and their families, are not eligible to participate, but that won't stop them from trying to mooch a board anyway.

Stage One: Initial Entry and Selection of Finalists

To enter, please send us mail answering the following questions:

Also, please include the following information:

Criteria for selecting finalists will be:

Stage Two: Selection of Final Winners

Judges will select final winners based on the following criteria:

A winner will be chosen in each of five categories.

All winning projects, and selected other projects, will appear in Linux Journal.