[UCLA-LUG] FW: Software engineering competition for students

[chris]

not to be a jerk, but how about instead of posting pdf or graphical
content as attachments we post url's instead? :) 

-chris

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Matt Helsley wrote:

> Open Source Competition, $100,000 prize, cool goal... not often that an
> opportunity like this comes along.
> 
> This originally came to me from contacts at UC Riverside, so not too many
> Bothans died to bring us this information. ;)
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> 	Matt Helsley - Use finger to obtain more information in *n?x.
> 	pi equals 3 --- for small values of pi and large values of 3
> 
> Dear Representatives on Campus:
> 
> Here is a competition your students may be interested in, and is being
> brought to you by several members of the USENIX community.  I am attaching
> the pdf version of the brochure, in case you would like something to
> handout.  Thanks.
> 
> Gale
> 
> ==============================
> 
> Los Alamos National Laboratory                     CodeSourcery, LLC
> 
>                           Software Carpentry
>                   http://www.software-carpentry.com
> 
> 	       Open Source Software Design Competition
> 
>                          $100,000 in Prizes!
> 
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> 
> The Software Carpentry project is pleased to announce an Open Source
> software design competition, with prizes totaling $100,000.  The
> competition's aim is to produce a new generation of easy-to-use software
> engineering tools.  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; and
> 
> * a unit and regression testing harness.
> 
> 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.  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 implementations will be Open Source, written primarily in Python,
> and required to run on both Linux and Microsoft Windows NT.
> 
> 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
> 
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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 CodeSourcery,
> 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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