Tango and the Hackontest

[Bill Baxter]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> I have registered Tango for the Hackontest [1], a Google sponsored
> competition for open source projects. Unlike Google Summer of Code, this
> project seems to have its participants decided by an independent jury, and
> so we probably have a bigger chance at being accepted. Maybe enough
> community activty (suggest features for implementation, voting, ...) will
> do it. In any case, this can be a great show case for D, and I recommend
> all to take a look, register and make a vote.
> 
> http://www.hackontest.org/index.php?action=Root-projectDetail%2835%29
> 
> Contest prizes will go to those doing the actual coding.

Hmm, I think despite the jury it's still going to be tough for Tango to 
get in on this one:
"""
the Hackontest jury will look at the submitted projects and developers 
and choose the three participating developer teams - three persons each 
- *according the highest promoted features* and the most promising 
hacker profiles.
""""

So a big part of the selection is going to be about how many people vote 
for particular features and projects.

I think that puts the odds highly in favor of well-known end-user apps 
(like Blender and OpenOffice) rather than library projects written in 
niche programming languages.  They also say PR for open source is a big 
reason for doing it.  So they're going to want to have competitors 
working on projects which can be easily explained to the public (like 
Blender and OpenOffice).

And ultimately only *three* projects will be selected.  So I think 
chances were probably a lot better for summer of code than they will be 
for this.

Still, I think it's great you registered.  It puts D and Tangos names 
out there in front of a lot of eyeballs.  And it will be even better if 
a significant number of people comment and show interest.

--bb