ya ...the idea of organizing coding competition is great...this will be a great platform to demonstrate one's skill and learn from others. It will also be helpful for the beginner programmers to develop a community of their own. Coz, programming is basically learned from sharing one's skill.
On Oct 4, 5:31 pm, "Jwalanta Shrestha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, > > i also talked about this with subir dai and he was positive about it. we > were thinkin to raise this issue in the upcoming meeting.. > > imho, it'd be gr8 if we have this competition in the school level. sometime > back CAN used to organize such contest, n there used to really cool hackers > participating.. (i can tell this coz i was there too.. :)) > > we can have a yearly contest, with maybe (running) trophies n all.. have a > preliminary round, select few from them, give some extensive trainings n > some time for the finalists to prepare for the final. n have a tough final > round.. i believe we can really find lots of Torvalds' here.. > > lets discuss this in our next meeting.. > > regards, > jwalanta. > > On 10/4/07, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi fossians! :-) > > > Myself and Jwalanta were discussing foss programming contest in Nepal > > after next couple of weeks. Basically focusing on implementation-level > > algorithm, games etc... And it can be coded in any open-source language that > > the team wishes. What do you guys think? > > In my understanding, this will leverage the open-source programming minds > > in Nepal and hopefully if conducted over certain period of years inspire a > > sense of belonging to FOSS as well as give competitive environment for next > > generation OSS programmers in Nepal. > > > Anyone willing to organise? Shouldn't have to be big at all. Just that > > industry support seems inevitable to me :) Or say, Code camping, another > > hackathon etc...? > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Bikal. > > GPG: 0D8EAFB6 > > "Rule 6: There is no Rule 6." - Rob Pike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
