BarCamp Boston 2 Programming Contest Overview
New for BarCampBoston2 is a programming contest. We're still working out the details, but for now, all you need to know is...
* On Saturday, we will have a session to select the general topic or area of the contest entries.
* On Sunday, about 24 hours later, we will have a second session where teams that have entered will be given a short slot to present their works. Prizes will be awarded based on some barcamp-agreed-upon judging mechanism. Grand Prize: Helicopter rides with Phil Greenspun. Follow-up prizes: An ipod shuffle? Maybe some other cool stuff? Come and find out!
Discussion
If you have any comments or suggestions, please add them below. We will take these notes into our Saturday session for group consensus.- JeffPotter, contest rangler and chief prize hander-outter.
* What general theme or topic should we have for the contest entries? We could ask entries to be relevant to "improving life", or "does something useful", or "makes people laugh". One reason for a theme or topic is to prevent people from bringing in already-completed projects and demoing them as if they were new. JeffPotter
* How should we do judging? Based on how loud applause is for each presentation slot? Some sort of web-based (paper-based?) ballot? JeffPotter
* Can we gather a panel of "celebrity judges" and foist the decision off on them? Heavily swayed by crowd applause, of course. MelChua
* The chalkboard of terms is getting huge.. this is gonna be a tough one. CoreyGoldberg
* I suggest the contest be to create a web tool for fairly choosing between programming contest entries. Then even the people who lose can still win! BrandonStafford
Teams
If you like, please list your team name and team members below.
* Someday Cafe Team (Chris Marstall, Brandon Casci, Erik Brunar, open to others email chris at tourfilter)
* The Flaming Sparrows (MelChua, BenFisher, BenHayden)
People Looking for teams
If you're looking to be on a team, please list your name, contact info, and what skills you're able to bring for ad-hoc team formation below.
- StevePomeroy - Python lover; Perl ninja; speaks in URLs and XML; keeps the Ecmascript spec close at hand; groks RFCs for fun.
