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Final Days For Hackontest Selection of Projects
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timothy
on Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:55 AM
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maemst writes "The project selection phase of the Google-sponsored 24-hour programming contest Hackontest ends in two days. Until today, almost a thousand persons voted for new features in 57 open source projects. Currently sK1, TYPO3 and OpenLieroX, phpMyAdmin and Inkscape are on the top list. However, only the developers of three of them may participate in the competition on September 24/25, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. code_swarm animations of the top five projects show how previous development has evolved so far."
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maemst writes "Can you code 24 hours non-stop? Hackontest is a new Google-sponsored 24-hour programming competition between different open source projects. Its goals are to enhance Free Software projects according to user needs and to make visible how enthusiastically open source software is being developed. During the current online selection process users and developers of open source software may submit feature requests and rate and comment them. On August 1st, 2008 the Hackontest jury will pick the three most promising teams. Each team will receive a free trip to Switzerland on September 24/25, 2008 to participate in the competition located in Zurich. Hacking 24 hours inside an etoy.CONTAINER, the teams and their virtually present communities will implement certain features based on the online ratings and jury selection. In the end, the Hackontest jury evaluates the code and awards the winners with a total of USD 8500. The jury is made up of 10 renowned open source contributors: Jeremy Alison (Samba), Jono Bacon (Ubuntu), Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Subversion), Martin F. Krafft (Debian), Alexander Limi (Plone), Federico Mena-Quintero (GNOME), Bram Moolenaar (vim), Bruce Perens (OSI founder), Lukas K. Smith (PHP) and Harald Welte (gpl-violations.org)."
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Why not go for it? (Score:1)
I don't know about the rest... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Why would these devs be pulling out? Why not go for it?
Huh? No-one's pulling out - they're just not getting invited along. Only three projects get invited. Read the about page [hackontest.org].
Not a whole lot of comments. (Score:2)
I don't have much to add other than I think the phpMyAdmin is the better video. Yeah, I have no life. I watched most of all of them and all of the phpMyAdmin video. (It is on the second page if you didn't find it.)
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This is I think, the fewest comments I've ever seen on a /. story.
I watched the Inkscape video, as it's the one application I'm familiar with, and I like it a lot.
One question, though, is what exactly is being visualized? e.g. what does it mean when one person's name moves from SW to NE?
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I honestly haven't the slightest idea but what I do find interesting is that you watched and enjoyed a video for a project you were familiar with where I watched one that was based on something that I use daily and enjoyed it the most.
Appropiate Dutch proverb... (Score:5, Funny)