That doesn't work for me. First of all, my programming competition has a strong marketing component. I cannot see how to market Smalltalk effectively through AoC. My Salta keynote made this very clear.
AoC is unfocussed. It's not language-specific. It's basically all over the place. Second, I envision making the competition public knowledge in the (Canadian) media. Again, I don't see how that's possible with AoC. The competition includes promotional T-shirts. These shouldn't be linked with AoC. I have $25,000 and I'm not going to donate it all to AoC. That's practically no bang for the buck in terms of marketing. philippeback wrote > A good way to do this is to align it with Advent of Code 2018. > > AoC is actually full of interesting challenges and one can do private > leaderboards. > > This will also put Pharo on the AoC map/subreddit where challenges are > discussed. > > Phil > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018, 15:29 Richard Kenneth Eng < > horrido.hobbies@ > wrote: > > > Some of you may already be aware of my presentation at *Smalltalks > 2018*, >> the outcome of which was full funding for my Smalltalk programming >> competition. See My Keynote at the Salta Conference >> <https://hackernoon.com/my-keynote-at-the-salta-conference-435dfaccc888>. >> >> Three years ago, David Buck provided an outline for the competition. See >> attached. >> >> I would like to use that as a starting point, though I am open to >> alternative suggestions. >> >> The reason for this post is the following... >> >> I need volunteers to code the competition. I am nowhere near qualified to >> do so, as my knowledge of Pharo is limited. >> >> Without help from Pharoers (or, at least, Smalltalkers), the competition >> is in jeopardy. This is a great opportunity to promote Pharo. (The >> original >> competition three years ago was going to use VisualWorks, but since >> Cincom >> did not see fit to support my competition this year, I decided to go with >> Pharo.) >> >> Please contact me if anyone is interested. It would be a terrible shame >> to >> waste this opportunity. >> >> Regards, >> Richard >> -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
