[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Los Alamos National Laboratory CodeSourcery, LLC > > Software Carpentry > http://www.software-carpentry.com > > Open Source Design Competition > > $100,000 in Prizes! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe aegis-users" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shaun Cloherty Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering University of New South Wales -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
