Dear OpenOffice.org developers,
OpenOffice.org with the support of Team OpenOffice.org e.V. and extra
sponsorship from Sun Microsystems would like to run a Developer
Article Contest. The goal of the contest would be to generate more
developer documentation, and to promote OpenOffice.org to developers
at the same time.
As part of the contest, developers would be asked to write articles
about developer topics like porting, addon and filter development
(e.g. new wizards, Calc functions, chart types, etc.), bug fixing, etc.
Every month a committee would pick the best article from the pool of
articles. Articles which did not win initially, will stay in the pool,
so that they can still win in subsequent months.
ALL articles would get published on the OpenOffice.org website
under the PDL and the JCA, but authors will still be allowed to use
the article content somewhere else, e.g. for a magazine or book.
Each winner gets $750. The contest will at least run for six months.
Depending on the success, it might get extended to twelve months.
A submitted article has to have at least 2000 words (about two pages
of text) excluding embedded source code snippets and screenshots.
I'd like to start the contest as soon as possible.
Therefore, I'm looking for volunteers who would be willing to
help defining the contest rules in more detail. I'm also looking
for volunteers for the selection committee as well as people who
can help publishing the articles on the OpenOffice.org website.
The majority of the selection committee members should have a
developer background in order to ensure that the article content
actually makes sense and that the content is useful to actual
developers. Non-developers can judge the contest submissions based
on the coolness and uniqueness of the idea.
The sooner we get the team in place the earlier we can get started
with the contest. Please let me know if you are interested in
supporting this contest! A few project leads already expressed their
interest to help, but I need a few more people.
Thanks a lot and all the best,
Erwin
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