Tizen Developers

Hi Bruno, The 22 countries listed in the T&C are the ones where Tizen organization have legal approval to run the contest. Please understand this is a legal limitation, nothing more Thanks and Regards,

Thank you for your answers. I'll develop the app as part of a team, and my friend will act as the contact point in the Tizen app challenge, registering the app in the Tizen Store and submitting to the challenge. Since he lives in a eligible country, the app will be valid :)

ok:)

I just found that Czech Republic is not eligible too. I wonder what lawyer reasons can be in it as Poland and Slovakia are eligible... It seems to me that lawyers and bureaucracy may be the crucial fail factor for new Tizen. No doubt that the most important thing the new OS needs are applications. Lot of mobile applications are made by small developers spread worldwide. So every clever company will support them (or at least not work against them). The Challenge is good way. But limiting it to quite a small set of countries is terribly bad thing. Beside this - starting with Tizen requires some overhead. It is lower for former bada programmers. But they also know how bada - Samsung works. How bad is their payment morale, how bad is their support, how nonsense are some of the rules. These developers also may have experience with Google or Apple where the relationship between developer and company is very clear. I am afraid that Tizen store will follow the bada times as the store is absolutely the same. These are all things that will repel potencial developers while the Challeng may attracted them. So, everyone who wants to support enlargement of eligible countries, reply, please, to this post. There are still two month till deadline and maybe there will be enough of us to be heard!

Just wanted to say that the countries have been selected by the Linux Foundation lawyers, not Samsung ;)

Linux Foundation is based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Since this thread has been busy, I decided to send an email to linuxfoundation.org regarding this matter. Let's wait and see what they answer

Brian here. Yes, that's right.  While we'd love to be able to expand the contest after launch, it's just not an option available to us.  Also, national contest laws are substantially different even in countries that seem to be otherwise similar.  For example, there is precisely zero consistency between EU countries (even neighbors), let alone the rest of the world.  I've been deeply into this.  Some laws are positively bizarre. I do want to genuinely thank you for your interest in the contest.  Wish it were possible to give you another answer about adding countries on this particular contest, but as I'd said before, we don't make the rules but we do have to follow them. Nour, to your last point, it's a good thing the people who write contest law didn't also write the GPL ;-)

Hi Brian, I can only speak for Europe of course but I don't see any reason why a contest would be problematic in any EU country. Since you've been deeply into this, could you give an explanation for one EU country for instance.

The problem for some countries could be that the total prize money is too high imo

If it's related to US laws, they must relocate future contests to Korea or anywhere else, that's for sure :)

The new Appbackr Challenge doesn't have any restrictions http://tizenapps.challengepost.com/forum_topics/2662

Could also be some countries consider it gambling, and what government wants another country taking advantage of it's citizens? 
(actually, 3 months of work is a big wager.)