It was mentioned that it might be best to do this on the forums, with an additional notification sent to the list... perhaps in the main "contest" forum there could be a link to your web app titled "Submit Contest Idea" where users can submit ideas. The web app could also be in charge of then auto-posting (randomly or otherwise) a new contest thread monthly. Any thoughts?
Tyler On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Faraday <jbtur...@hotmail.com>wrote: > I'm right up for that. Although truth be told I'd almost certainly miss > the theme/challenge on the forum if it wasn't posted on the list. Not too > spammy, really. Could be that possible themes are submitted by users? Just > I'm working on a ruby/pd patch to get a clean feed of CPU usage in linux, > could be a starting point (I.E. where would people take this real-time data > collection). > > I digress, would be right up for this... If I can put some time asside, > would folks like me to put together a web app to manage, say, a monthly > theme, patches, comments on submissions and suggestions? > > Andrew > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:45:25 -0700 > From: thecryofl...@gmail.com > To: pd-list@iem.at > Subject: Re: [PD] Patch Contest Thread/List > > > Yeah, the compressed/chip patch thread was what prompted me to bring it > up... would it be too spam-like to post new themes to the pd-list as well > once the thread is created on the forum? I personally check the lists at > least once a day and hardly ever check the forums... and if it will be > somewhere between weekly-monthly it wouldn't be flooding the list much. > > Tyler > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>wrote: > > > Sounds great, I say do it! > > .hc > > > On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Mike Moser-Booth wrote: > > +1. I think the forum is a good place for it, too. Newbies seem to > gravitate toward (or at least participate more) to the forum. I think > this would be a great way to help new users develop some chops. > > .mmb > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:17 PM, hardoff goes bananas > <hard....@gmail.com> wrote: > > if there is interest in this, i'd suggest the pd forum as a good place to > host it. > > i'll set it up if a few more people agree it will be a good idea. not > every > week though..every now and then should be fine. > > i think it might be cool, not really as a 'competition', but more as a way > to focus and see how other people approach something. The "compressed/chip > patch" thread we have going now is a great example. I have had a lot of > fun > with that. > > > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Tyler Leavitt <thecryofl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello list, > > I'd always thought it'd be fun if there was a patch contest similar to the > Fark Photoshop contest threads. Is there already something similar > happening > in the Pd community? If not, how easily could this be integrated (if there > is enough interest) and how? Maybe it could be a sublist, like [ot] or > [pd-announce]... or just a specific tag in the subject line. It wouldn't > have to include the voting aspect that Fark has and it could change > theme/concept once a week. Is there any interest in this? > > Tyler > > ______________________________**_________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/**listinfo/pd-list<http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list> > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/**listinfo/pd-list<http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list> > > > > > > -- > Mike Moser-Booth > mmoserbo...@gmail.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/** > listinfo/pd-list <http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list> > > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ---------------- > > Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to > realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change > them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/** > listinfo/pd-list <http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list> > > > > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing > list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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