As you might be aware, the Adobe riathon ’08 final judgment and prize distribution was postponed from November 29th, 2008 due to the Mumbai terror attacks. In the wake of such an unfortunate incident, we thought it was best to not have any kind of celebration or gala function. So we postponed the event and also decided to provide more time for contestants to develop their applications. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
The grand finale of the Adobe riathon ’08 has been now postponed from the earlier date of 29th November, 2008 to 17th January, 2009. We have also extended the submission deadline date from 26th November, 2008 to 13th January, 2009.
Even if you have already submitted your application, you can continue to develop your idea further and submit a refined entry. You can submit more than one application as well. As stated earlier, you must build your application(s) on the Adobe Flash Platform. You can develop your application using Flex, Flash or AIR.
On 17 January, 2009 the finale event will also feature a sneak peek of the new products, services and features unveiled at MAX 2008. You will familiarize yourself with Flash Player 10 (Astro), the new features of the next version of Flex & Flex Builder (Gumbo), new services from Adobe like CoCoMo. You will also get to see Flash Catalyst (earlier called Thermo), the newest addition to the Flash Platform, in action.
To make the whole event interesting, we have also introduced a few additions:
- We have introduced a referral system by which you can invite fellow developers to take part in this event. Each time one of the people you referred registers, your name goes once into a lucky draw which will be drawn at the finale event improving your chances to win cool prizes including Adobe branded merchandise and iPod shuffles. Sujit (a Technical Evangelist on our team) has set up an application to help you refer your friends. You can access the application here
- Also introduced are optional checkpoints that you can make use of to get our inputs for your applications and also win additional check-point prizes – Read more details about the checkpoints here.
Sending your entries at each check points will qualify you for prizes for each of the checkpoints, which would be announced on the day of the finale. We also urge you to subscribe to https://adoberiathon.wordpress.com/ [RSS feed – https://adoberiathon.wordpress.com/feed/%5D to keep yourself posted about the latest news on the event. We will be posting related news and pointers to resources that might help you to bring a zeal to your application.
If you have any questions, drop a mail to riaevent@adobe.com
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