The 3rd Edition of India’s Premier Software Developer Awards Now Open!
Stage I: Longlist Nominations Closed on 12 Jan 2010.
Stage II: Shortlist Announcement on 09 Feb 2010.
Stage III: Voting on Shortlist Commences. Closes on 10 Apr 2010.
Stage IV: Shortlist Votes are consolidated. High Stature Jury Picks the winners.
Stage V: Winners to be Announced on 21 Apr 2010.
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
Products Par Excellence: These awards recognize the product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity, across 11 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.
Development Environments: Nominate from the new breed programming languages, source code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs).
Collaboration Solution: Nominate from groupware, real-time conferencing and collaboration, and digital communities.
Content Management: Nominate from content creation, categorization, workflow, publishing and delivery tools.
Design and Modeling: Requirements gathering, modeling, prototyping, GUI design, analysis tools, including automatically generating code from models.
Change and Configuration Management: Nominate from across tools that track and manage software defects and enhancement requests as well as version control and change or configuration management.
Testing: 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.
Security: Nominate tools from across authentication and encryption, code analysis, firewalls, network monitoring, system enhancements, system monitoring and spam prevention.
Web Development: Nominate from web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.
Mobile Development: 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.
Frameworks: Nominate from across the several libraries, components, and frameworks that are part of every developers treasure chest.
Database: Awards the best software solution for the storage, organization, management, search, editing, reporting, analysis, and retrieval of large quantities of data.
STEP III: Vote for Your Favorite Products
Following an overwhelming response (we received a sum total of 1,16,700 submissions) to the long list call for Great Indian Developer Awards (GIDA) III, please find below the shortlisted products across the various categories. Voting on the shortlist – Stage III – to pick the winners for GIDA III is now open until the 10th of April 2010:
