On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
for your local contest, you should get as creative as you like! In the Netherlands we had for example a quantity classification too, and I think in other countries they had different categories (i.e. Russia).
In Russia we used categories for improving the participation. I wanted to motivate users to make photo if they have only amateur eqipment ('Best amateur photo'), I wanted to motivate to add many photos (so it was categories for 'Most representative photo series of a monument' and 'All buildings from one complex'), I wanted to attract the community attention (we have about 90% of newbies, but haven't many interest from the existing users; that's why 'Community Pick Award' was useful) and attracted to partners (Nomination by “Living city” and Nomination by committee of “Running City”).
And I may say that it's working, but it was hard for jury - to work with it.