Welcome to A Holiday Cocoa Duel! The duel is a charity event in which Mac OS X developers battle it out for supremacy (and beer). The developers write small holiday-themed applications, and you pick which one you like most by donating to that developer's charity of choice!

Here's the scoop: The duel is a mix between Ironcoder and Snö. Entrants will:

• write some small holiday-themed OS X app similar to ittpoi's Snö, and release it as open-source
• commit to purchasing a gift of a $20 value (or two six packs of good beer) for the winner
• set up donations for the charity of the entrant's choice in the entrant's name

Users vote on which entry they like the most by donating to that entrant's charity. At the end, the winner is picked by whichever charity got the most donations. And the winner gets the gift pool from the other devs.

If you'd like to participate as a developer, all you need to do is have your app ready for download by midnight MST of Wednesday the 20th. that you're participating as soon as possible, and which charity you'd like your users to donate to, and we'll get you set up.

We'll count up the donations on midnight MST of Tuesday, December 26th and pick the winner!