Rules & Guidelines

The following are guidelines and rules for the BeOS Masters Awards. Changes to the Masters Awards program will be reflected on these pages as they are made. All rules and guidelines are subject to change without notice.

Eligibility

• All developers working with the BeOS, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, are eligible for the BeOS Masters.
• All entrants must be registered as Be developers. For information on registering, see the Be Developer Program application page. If you are registering for the first time specifically for the Masters' Awards, please indicate that on your developer application.
• All products must be available (commercially, shareware, or freeware) by the date of the Masters Awards. Availability may be beta, demo or final release, as long as it is available to the public in some way.
• Entrants for the "promising technology" category need not be shipping to the public to be eligible. Entrants must be in a reviewable by the panel.
• You may enter multiple times with different products.
• A Master Award winner application is not eligible for subsequent rounds.
• A Master Award runner-up application is eligible for subsequent rounds.
• Be employees and their families and products created under contract to Be are not eligible.

 

Submissions

• To submit a product, see the How To Enter page for details. All submissions must include a text file that includes information on how to setup and use your product as well as the basic entry information.
• For the August Masters Awards, all submissions must run under BeOS Preview Release (or Advanced Access Preview Release).
• All entries and software for the August Masters Awards must be submitted to Be by noon (PDT) on July 25th, 1997.
• All submissions remain the property of the developer. By submitting a product, you give Be permission to demonstrate the product in public, and place information about the product on Be's web site, as well as within promotional materials.

Awards Selection

• The decisions of the awards panel are final.
• Submissions will be evaluated on usefulness, innovation, risk taking, and how well they take advantage of the BeOS platform.
• There will be multiple BeOS Masters Awards presented. There will be at least one award presented in each of the following categories;
  • Best Commercial product
  • Best Shareware/Freeware product
  • Best Product by a College or High-School Developer
  • Most promising technology
• Note that submissions which are presented Masters Awards in the college/high-school category will have school registration verified.

Awards

• The August BeOS Masters Awards will be announced and presented at the Be Developer Conference, August 5th, 1997 in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Each Master Award winning submission will receive a dual-604 S900 system from UMAX, in addition to the Master Award itself. Be reserves the right to present awards as "honorable mentions" in addition to the Master Award winners, and to make additional awards and prizes available.
• Master Award winners will be highlighted in Be PR activities and on the Be web site. In addition, they may be included in Be trade show and demonstration tour exhibits during the year following the award.
• All qualified submissions will receive automatic upgrades for the BeOS during the next 12 months. In addition, submissions will be featured on the Be web site, including pages of product information, FTP downloads, and links to your web site as appropriate.

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Further Masters Information

• Masters Awards: Main Page
• Masters Awards: How to Enter
• Previous BeOS Masters Award Winners

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