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Final Days For Hackontest Selection of Projects

Posted by timothy on from the neat-stuff-for-neat-people dept.

maemst writes "The project selection phase of the Google-sponsored 24-hour programming contest Hackontest ends in two days. Until today, almost a thousand persons voted for new features in 57 open source projects. Currently sK1, TYPO3 and OpenLieroX, phpMyAdmin and Inkscape are on the top list. However, only the developers of three of them may participate in the competition on September 24/25, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. code_swarm animations of the top five projects show how previous development has evolved so far."

3 of 7 comments (clear)

  1. I don't know about the rest... by Channard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    .. but maybe the developers of OpenLieroX are too busy fending off lawsuits from Team 17.

  2. Re:Why not go for it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would these devs be pulling out? Why not go for it?

    Huh? No-one's pulling out - they're just not getting invited along. Only three projects get invited. Read the about page.

  3. Appropiate Dutch proverb... by MisterBlueSky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here in Holland, we have an ancient old Dutch Proverbe for situations like this: Hajje knarre najje spruitjespap narre hopjesvla. It means: Sometimes the only reply which makes sense is quoting an ancient old Dutch saying.