Make something awesome with Nokia’s Open C and get $10,000

Open C is a feature of the S60 operating system that makes porting applications written in C ridiculously easy. Read more about it on Forum Nokia:

Symbian recently introduced four of the basic POSIX libraries on Symbian OS. With Open C, S60 is implementing five additional C libraries built on open source projects including OpenSSL, GNOME, and LIBZ.

Open C helps optimize porting of open source and desktop applications to S60 on Symbian OS.

In order to kick start the developers creative juices Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will begin a content in July with a prize valued at $10,000. Join the Open C challenge if you think you have what it takes. A few open source applications I would like to see ported to S60:

1. A robust PDF viewer that will never choke, regardless of how complicated my PDF is.
2. Samba support so I can connect my shared network drives to my mobile phone. Music streaming anyone?
3. VLC aka the media player that was created because the developers at Real over use the word buffering.
4. FTP client
5. A better PIM since the one built into S60 is quite honestly trash.

[Via: SymbianOne]