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[comp.mail.list-admin.software,comp.software.config-mgmt,comp.software-eng,comp.software.testing] ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Source Design Competition
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- Subject: [comp.mail.list-admin.software,comp.software.config-mgmt,comp.software-eng,comp.software.testing] ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Source Design Competition
- From: thi <ttn at netcom dot com>
- Date: 14 Jan 2000 13:12:53 -0800
hey this sounds like previous discussion on the list...
anyone want to collaborate on either the first or second program?
(using guile of course -- the python requirement is a motivator for
getting the translator sub-project into gear.)
thi
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From: "Greg Wilson" <gvwilson@nevex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.list-admin.software,comp.software.config-mgmt,comp.software-eng,comp.software.testing
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Source Design Competition
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:06:58 -0500
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Code Sourcery, LLC
Software Carpentry
http://www.software-carpentry.com
Open Source Design Competition
$100,000 in Prizes!
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The Software Carpentry project is pleased to announce its first Open
Source design competition, with prizes totaling $100,000. Students
and professionals from any country, working individually or in teams,
are invited to submit design outlines for:
* a platform inspection tool to replace autoconf;
* a dependency management tool to replace make;
* an issue tracking system to replace gnats and Bugzilla; and
* a unit and regression testing harness with the functionality of
XUnit, Expect, and DejaGnu.
Participants may submit separate entries in one or more categories by
March 31, 2000. Entries must be in English, and no more than 5000
words long; examples are available at http://www.software-carpentry.com.
The competition will be judged by a panel that includes the following
noted software developers, authors, and computational scientists:
Stephen Adler Brookhaven National Laboratory
Frank Alexander Los Alamos National Laboratory
Donnie Barnes Red Hat
Chris DiBona VA Linux
Paul Dubois Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Andrew Hunt Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
Stephen R. Lee Los Alamos National Laboratory
Josh MacDonald University of California, Berkeley
Brian Marick Reliable Software Technologies
Doug Mewhort Queen's University
Bruce Perens co-founder of the Open Source Initiative
Dave Thomas Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
Jon Udell author of Practical Internet Groupware
Guido van Rossum inventor of Python
Tom Van Vleck TransIlluminant
Phil Wadler Bell Labs
Scot Wingo AuctionRover
The best four entries in each category will be awarded $2500, and
invited to submit full designs by June 1, 2000. The best design in
each category will then receive an additional $7500, while runners-up
will each receive $2500. Once winning designs have been announced,
$200,000 will be available through open bidding for implementation,
testing, and documentation.
All of the project's work will be Open Source; all tools will be
written in, or scriptable with, Python, and will be required to run on
both Linux and Microsoft Windows NT.
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The Software Carpentry project is sponsored by the Advanced Computing
Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National
Laboratory (http://www.acl.lanl.gov), and administered by Code
Sourcery, LLC (http://www.codesourcery.com). The project's aim
is to encourage adoption of better software development practices by
making software tools easier to use, and by documenting design,
testing, and related activities. For more information on the project,
or to let us know that you intend to submit a proposal, see
http://www.software-carpentry.com, or mail info@software-carpentry.com.
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