Nokia is looking for mobile application developers to use the company's Open C environment and has launched a contest in a quest to meet this goal. The "Open C Challenge" is focused on development of applications for the S60 smartphones running the Symbian OS. Open C Challenge will enable open source and freeware developers to apply desktop and open source development skills using the Nokia Open C Posix environm Nokia is looking for mobile application developers to use the company’s Open C environment and has launched a contest in a quest to meet this goal.The “Open C Challenge” is focused on development of applications for the S60 smartphones running the Symbian OS. Open C Challenge will enable open source and freeware developers to apply desktop and open source development skills using the Nokia Open C Posix environment. The contest is being sponsored by Forum Nokia in conjunction with Orange and the Symbian Developer Network. Open C Challenge finalists will be invited to present their applications to a panel of industry judges at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London October 16-17. Contest winners can receive cash prizes totaling more than $20,000 or other prizes. “Nokia’s global invitation to millions of developers to take the Open C Challenge taps the exponential growth in open source and Symbian developers currently working on exciting new applications for smartphone devices,” said Lee Epting, vice president, Forum Nokia, Nokia’s global developer program, in a statement released by Nokia. “Identifying and rewarding the latest and greatest applications being built or ported with Open C will showcase the exciting growth in developer productivity that Open C is already driving in S60 smartphone application development worldwide.”Contest categories include porting an existing application or developing a native application. Winning applications will be selected based on quality, usability, creativity and degree of middleware difficulty. Participants can be provided with webinars, training sessions and discussions boards to ease migration from desktop to mobile application development by registering here. Open C leverages three open source projects: OpenSSL, Gnome and Libz. Technology Industry