I disagree. If someone wants to help, show the world what they can do, or whatever their reasoning why not? It's no different than a photo contest, art contest or the contest Ray Camden runs occasionally for showing off what you can do with your programing skills.
It's a contest with prizes for the winner. If you have enough time and are so inclined power to you. Andy Matthews wrote: > With respect to the organizers of this contest, to Fusebox, and to you > Sandra...this is a poor idea. > > This is basically asking people to work for free, with only a chance of the > possibility of winning the contest. It's called Spec Work and it's a bad > practice. > > Would any of the programmers on this list write CODE for free were this > contest geared towards that? > > I'm not saying that a contest in and of itself is bad, but asking people to > do work for free IS bad and it's unprofessional. Even straight up asking > people to do pro bono work would be better than your current method. I'm > just asking you to consider the message that this is sending the web > professionals on this list. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269333 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
