[Biopython-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Source design competition (fwd)

[Jeffrey Chang]

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:48:05 -0500 (EST)
From: gvwilson@nevex.com
To: sc-announce@software-carpentry.com
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Source design competition

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 info@software-carpentry.com.