It's quite likely that we would need testers, an agile task board co-ordinator, possibly team liason(s), drink mixers, cheerleaders, etc... Just get over to BKK. :-)
-- Ben On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Chip <[email protected]> wrote: > It sounds great. I have time but I'm not a programmer, then is there > anything I can help :D > > 2009/6/21 Kirit Sælensminde <[email protected]> > >> 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 >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Best Regards, > -------- > http://baomoi.com > http://vnsecurity.vn > http://huyenchip.com > > Contact > Email: [email protected] > Yahoo/Skype: huyenchip19 > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chipro > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
