There's clearly some interest in Google Wave, but there's something a
little closer that might also be fun and something I think BarCamp
Thailand can make a big splash in.
If you've not heard of it before then the ICFP competition is a
programming competition for teams from across the world. ICFP is the
International Conference on Functional Programming. Don't worry though,
it's not just for functional programming languages. The winners are
invited to the conference (they do have some cash to help with travel
expenses).
You don't have to be a programmer to join the team. Some of the things
that are needed will be:
* Help with project management
* Team communication
* Ideas, brainstorming
* Testing
* Enthusiasm (especially important after those long coding sprints)
The competition is going to be held next weekend. If I have my timezones
worked out right then I think the puzzle will be announced at 1am on
Friday night/Saturday morning and we would have until the same time
Monday night/Tuesday morning.
If you've not heard of it before then check out the previous year's
tasks and results linked from this year's competition page.
http://www.icfpcontest.org/
Last year team Felspar entered and didn't do too badly considering
"team" Felspar was only me and I only had about 8 hours of coding time
that w/e.
I'm not sure whether we should be many teams or one big team -- I guess
it depends on how many people are interested. Personally I think that
three to four people is probably ideal for this sort of thing, and being
in the same place will help. The Felspar offices will be open over the
w/e for those that want to join us here.
I'll certainly be doing it again, the real question is how many others
want to test their programming skills against some of the best in the
world? This is a great way to promote Thailand as somewhere that does
know how to build great technology.
So who's in?
Kirit
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