I'm game. Can you describe what the competition was last time and what you did? What languages/tools do you anticipate we'd be using.
-- Ben On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Kirit Sælensminde <[email protected]>wrote: > There's clearly some interest in Google Wave, but there's something a > little closer that might also be fun and something I think BarCamp Thailand > can make a big splash in. > > If you've not heard of it before then the ICFP competition is a > programming competition for teams from across the world. ICFP is the > International Conference on Functional Programming. Don't worry though, it's > not just for functional programming languages. The winners are invited to > the conference (they do have some cash to help with travel expenses). > > You don't have to be a programmer to join the team. Some of the things that > are needed will be: > * Help with project management > * Team communication > * Ideas, brainstorming > * Testing > * Enthusiasm (especially important after those long coding sprints) > > The competition is going to be held next weekend. If I have my timezones > worked out right then I think the puzzle will be announced at 1am on Friday > night/Saturday morning and we would have until the same time Monday > night/Tuesday morning. > > If you've not heard of it before then check out the previous year's tasks > and results linked from this year's competition page. > > http://www.icfpcontest.org/ > > Last year team Felspar entered and didn't do too badly considering "team" > Felspar was only me and I only had about 8 hours of coding time that w/e. > > I'm not sure whether we should be many teams or one big team -- I guess it > depends on how many people are interested. Personally I think that three to > four people is probably ideal for this sort of thing, and being in the same > place will help. The Felspar offices will be open over the w/e for those > that want to join us here. > > I'll certainly be doing it again, the real question is how many others want > to test their programming skills against some of the best in the world? This > is a great way to promote Thailand as somewhere that does know how to build > great technology. > > So who's in? > > > Kirit > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
