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Kevin Turner asked some good questions: > The "you give Green Driver, Inc. an unrestricted license to use your > entry" clause is what made me wary, as some contests are just spec work. Our contest is not spec work. Our project, Green Driver (http://www.imagreendriver.com/), is a smartphone app that gives driving directions to help the driver avoid red lights. It involves many interesting problems (see our paper from AAAI this year: "Green Driver: AI in a Microcosm" (http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI11/paper/view/3648)), but none of them are the basis for the question we have chosen for the programming contest. We chose the question for the programming contest based on its suitability as a programming challenge. > WikiMedia's recent "Coding Challenge", for example, is just asking > people to implement MediaWiki features and dressing it up in a contest. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ContestWelcome/October_2011_Coding_Challenge > > In the ICFP, on the other hand, you primarily compete for the priviledge > of your language being declared "the programming language of choice for > discriminating hackers." > > What's this more like? Our contest is more like the ICFP programming competition. > The other question I have is about team entries. Is collaboration > encouraged or permitted? No, unlike recent ICFP programming competitions, we intend this to be only for individuals. Jim _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland
