Hackontest - 24 hour opensource programming competition
Submitted by Antony Marcano on Sat, 19/04/2008 - 23:14.
events
I'm not sure why it is called hackontest, nor am I sure why the definition of 'hacker' used on their website highlights the 'clever programmer' aspect of its origins but ignores the 'learning programming by trial and error' (i.e. not necessarily knowing about designing for maintainability and other such things)...
But, they have a goal to advance one or more open source tools by having a day dedicated to adding new features to open source tools...
The Swiss Open Systems User Group /ch/open organizes the first international Hackontest sponsored by Google as part of informatica08, the Swiss year of computer science 2008. Hackontest is a 24-hour programming competition of three teams of different open source projects. Its goals are to enhance popular Free Software projects according to user needs and to demonstrate to the public how enthusiastically open source software is being developed.
Interested in proposing a project? Interested in voting for features? Interested in competing for the USD 8500 prize?
Well - if you are, check out the Hackontest website for more info...