> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:36:32 -0800
> Subject: FYI--open source design competition
> From: "Eleanor Wynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Los Alamos National Laboratory CodeSourcery, 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.
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.
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. For more information, see the Software Carpentry web site
at http://www.software-carpentry.com. 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.
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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