It looks like there is an interesting contest to rapidly develop a web application in 60 hours or lise.
There was a ROR contest last year that was alot of fun. This may be a nice chance for TurboGears to go head to head against ROR :-) Link: http://www.topdevone.com/W_a_singular_contest.php >From the Page: The Concept of the TopDev contest is original : * a programming contest open to various programming languages, * on a fixed topic drawn from a real business need (not an arithmetical problem), * limited to 60 hours (all contestants working remotely from home), * with a jury of technical experts (professors, professionals...), * and completely independent of the programming software publishers. >From its independence (contest is managed by an association), TopDev 2006 is freed from the a priori upon any particular language and thus makes it possible to get contribution from the whole developers' community. Neither pro, nor anti-microsoft; neither pro, nor anti-Open-Source.... Only personal competences of the participants are important. The Jury is interested only in technical quality of the solution. * The participants must answer precise specifications describing a real business case. * The participants can produce their application in : o PHP4 or PHP5 programming, o Java programming (JSP, J2EE,...), o .NET programming (C#, VBscript,...), o Python programming o or thanks to an UML model * The contest will take place during a complete week-end (question is delivered on a Friday noon, and answers expected on the next Sunday evening). * The contest is opened to all: students, professionals, self-educated or engineers or technicians, beginners or experienced, from 7 to 77 years, without geographical restrictions. * The Jury is composed of professors, researchers and IT professionals (no sales or marketing profiles). TopDev does not praise any product. Only competences of the participants are judged. You want to take part in the second edition of TopDev? (subscription in the "Your TopDev" area) Well, then book now your week-end of 28th of January 2006... The first edition gathered more than 300 participants. 1000 participants are expected this year!! In order to have a more precise idea of the event's tests, documentation of the 2005 edition is available (sorry, in French only) in the section TopDev2005 Sounds like fun :-)
