No, the money isn't lost. I was merely suggesting that without some help, the marketing opportunity for this competition would be lost.
I'm not sure you understand how much work is involved in this project. I will be doing a great deal of the heavy lifting. I have to setup the competition website server. I have to advertise or reach out to high schools across the country. I have to get local media interested in covering the competition. I have to look into producing the T-shirt swag, and shipping the T-shirts to all contest participants, and at an affordable rate to fit the budget. Those are only a few things off the top of my head. Coding the actual contest problems according to David Buck's prescription shouldn't be open-ended and shouldn't be a huge commitment. I imagine it would be a couple of months of work during spare time. jgfoster wrote > Hi Richard, > > So the $$$$ that we gave you is now “lost"? Perhaps people didn’t > understand what you expected from us other than money. What else is needed > to make your project a success? We are supposed to “code the competition” > as well? Anything else? > > Is this practice of insulting people (“Doesn’t anyone care about promoting > Pharo?”) supposed to be motivating? Is it a demonstration of you expertise > at marketing? Does it build confidence about how the Smalltalk community > will be perceived by the new arrivals? > > I’ve appreciated your blog posts and your passion, but I’m put off by this > approach. > > James > > P.S. I realize that I’m probably doing what I’m criticizing in > you—throwing out negative comments from behind a keyboard to score points > when I might not be so harsh in person. > >> On Nov 20, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Richard Kenneth Eng < > horrido.hobbies@ > > wrote: >> >> Not even a single nibble? Doesn't anyone care about promoting Pharo? >> >> What a colossal lost opportunity! >> >> >> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 09:29, Richard Kenneth Eng < > horrido.hobbies@ > <mailto: > 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
