Dallas/Ft Worth Perl Mongers is running a Perl performance competition, where the task is to find duplicate files. They've opened up the competition to people outside their group, and seem to be getting a good response, with entrants from Philadelphia, New York, and Atlanta Perl Mongers groups, and more.
They're looking for both entrants and judges. The specifications for the contest can be found at: http://dfw.pm.org/ and some supplemental details in their list archives (consisting of about a dozen messages, all about the contest) : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/dfw-pm/2013-December/thread.html Any Boston.pm-ers interested in forming a team to collaborate? (If not, Tim and I would probably submit an entry under The Perl Shop banner. We might do a Perl 6 version too, if they create a category for that.) We're looking for January meeting topics for Boston.pm. One possibility would be to review the results of this contest, which will have been presented a week prior to our meeting, and is planned to be published to YouTube. -Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pm_groups] Announcement - Dallas/Ft Worth Perl Mongers Hackathon Invitational Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:06:23 -0600 From: Tommy Butler I just ran this announcement on Google+ and PerlMonks.org. If you have a blog or facebook account you could share the news there as well. We'd appreciate it. All groups are invited: *ANNOUNCEMENT* You could call it the DFW.pm's "Winter of Code". You could call it a contest. You could call it fun. You could call it Perl... ...And you'd be right! DFW.pm (now joined by New York's NY.pm) is holding in a competition that runs from now until January 8th when the code of each competitor will be pitted against the others in a live Google hangout world-wide Perl Mongers meeting. The aim of the competition is to "deduplicate" 100 gigabytes of random file data, using Perl, as fast as possible. If your code can do it the fastest, without killing the contest server, you win. The winner gets to choose the topic of the next hackathon competition (and/or host it), and gets the recognition of having won a world-wide competition in Perl. *The competition is open to all*, provided a few criteria are met which establish legitimacy of participation. If you want to compete, YOU'RE INVITED! Full details can be read on the dfw.pm.org <http://dfw.pm.org/> website. The contest is discussed on The DFW.pm mailing list <http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/dfw-pm> The hackathon was organized by Tommy Butler and John Fields of Dallas, TX, and is being hosted by the Dallas Makerspace. Our resources are finite, so we may have to stop accepting entries if server load gets too high. Get your notice of intention to participate to the mailing list asap. --Tommy Butler
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