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Submission + - Final Days for Hackontest Selection of Projects (hackontest.org)

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maemst

on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @02:14AM

maemst writes: "The project selection phase of the Google sponsored 24h programming contest Hackontest ends in two days. Until today almost a thousand persons voted for new features of 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."

Submission + - 24h Open Source Coding Marathon Hackontest started (hackontest.org) 1

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maemst

on Friday April 18, 2008 @04:31AM

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 Swiss national holiday August 1st, 2008 the Hackontest jury will pick the three most promising teams. They receive a free trip to Switzerland on September 24/25, 2008 to participate in the competition located at OpenExpo 2008 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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