Hi folks

I've just added Squeak to the "Hackontest" open source gathering- competing-whatever-event which should happen in Zurich this September.

Bottom line: Come to Switzerland this summer and get your trip paid from this well know advertisement company by adding some cool feature to anything Squeak.

Cheers

Markus

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Von: Matthias Stürmer matthias.stuermer@ch-open.ch Datum: 2. April 2008 14:12:27 GMT+02:00 An: Hackontest contact@hackontest.org Betreff: Hackontest Announcement

Dear open source project coordinators

/ch/open is happy to announce the going-live of the Hackontest platform. You're warmly invited to participate on http://hackontest.org [1] and submit your project, feature requests, and comments. [2]

Hackontest is a 24-hour open source coding competition taking place during the next OpenExpo in Zurich on September 24/25, 2008. Three teams of different open source projects are required to implement a certain feature for their Free Software project within 24 hours. In order to select the participating projects, features and programmers the Hackontest platform allows everyone to submit feature requests for projects and rate and comment on them. When a developer feels that he is capable implementing a feature, he can sign up and thus becomes a candidate for the participation in the Hackontest event. Most of the decisions are made by the Hackontest jury which consists of ten renowned open source hackers:

Jeremy Allison, 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 Harald Welte, gpl-violations.org

On August 1st 2008, the Hackontest jury will look at the submitted projects and developers and choose the three participating developer teams - three persons each - according the features ranked highest and the most promising hacker profiles. Until shortly before the Hackontest event the rating and commenting of the features may continue. On September 24th, the open source teams gather in one room at OpenExpo and start to implement the feature the jury will select. Connected to their community through the Internet the teams start to code for one day. After 24 hours they present the new feature to the audience, the jury reviews the code and announces the Hackontest winners.

The teams receive cash prizes of USD 1000, 2500 and 5000. Also the Hackontest participants get a free trip to beautiful Switzerland, accommodation and meals during the Hackontest days.

As Hackontest hast just been released to public, we're thankful if you spread the word within your communities and personal contacts.

All the best,

Matthias Stürmer

[1] As this web application is written from scratch, there might be still some bugs and usability issues. Please send any suggestions on how to improve the platform or anything else concerning Hackontest to contact@hackontest.org

[2] I filed some 'demo' projects and features. If you'd like to take over a project, let me know and I'll change the owner.

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