The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

The LearnAdaNow.com Contest 2015

Prize @ $100 and Growing

Rules:

Create a recorded video (screen cast, talking head, full live action, etc.) of up to 1 hour long (no minimum) in mp4 format of

****  How to do something Awesome using Ada  ****

1. Submit your entry to david@botton.com - if too large please provide a link for downloading.
2. The judges will be the prize donors and one representative from SigAda and one from Ada Europe.
3. No one that submits an entry nor David Botton (the organizer) can be a judge.
4. Each judge will score each entry 1-10 points and the highest scored submission wins.
5. If you add a pdf transcript with static images of your recording you automatically get 1 points added.
6. Each entry will be posted when received to LearnAdaNow.com
7. The last date for submissions will be July 31, 2015
8. The winner will be announced by August 7, 2015

Prize Donors so Far:

David Botton - $100

To donate to the prize contact david@botton.com

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-31, David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
> The LearnAdaNow.com Contest 2015
>
> Prize @ $100 and Growing
>
> Rules:
>
> Create a recorded video (screen cast, talking head, full live action, etc.) of up to 1 hour long (no minimum) in mp4 format of
>
> ****  How to do something Awesome using Ada  ****
>
> 1. Submit your entry to david@botton.com - if too large please provide a link for downloading.
> 2. The judges will be the prize donors and one representative from SigAda and one from Ada Europe.
> 3. No one that submits an entry nor David Botton (the organizer) can be a judge.
> 4. Each judge will score each entry 1-10 points and the highest scored submission wins.

You might also want to state what happens when two or more entries get the
same highest awarded marks.

Also, you should very seriously think about making it a condition that all
code and other material used in the submitted videos is made freely
available for public download along with the video.

If you don't want to make that mandatory, then maybe add 3 points or so
for each entry that submits a full set of code and other resources used
in the video.

If the goal is to make people excited about Ada, it's going to be a lot
easier to achieve that if the person interested in a specific video
(which might not be the final prize winning video BTW) can easily
duplicate the content of the video themselves and use that as a base to
build their own experiments on.

For that latter reason, the licence attached to any code or other material
used in the videos must be stated up front.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

I've added:

All submitted videos and associated materials must have no restrictions on reuse and distribution and be original new works.

That should allow people to maintain copyright but allow others to pass around the video and materials.

David Botton

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

I've also added:

If there are multiple entries with the same highest score the winnings will be divided equally.

I doubt that there will be a tie, but just in case as you say.

David Botton

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[tonyg]

Does the project have to be open source? Do points get awarded for a social purpose?

Great Idea, ADACORE stick some money in! this helps you immensely!

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

> Does the project have to be open source? Do points get awarded for a social purpose?

What ever is submitted needs to be ok to "redistribute and reuse" not technically but I am sure the judges would look more fondly on one that was.

David Botton

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

> Great Idea, ADACORE stick some money in! this helps you immensely!

A large part of what I am doing the last 8 months is to corral us in to a cohesive independent community that is looking inward for strength. If we enjoy Ada programming, want to attract new people to use Ada, create new Ada jobs, and want to see Ada use in the long term future, it requires us to build an environment that is inviting and not condescending to new comers and their ideas, one that looks fresh and clean, inviting and supportive.

Being part of a community is not about money, it doesn't take much to make things work. It takes small contributions mostly of time and sometimes a small bit of money from all and respecting those contributions and efforts as all having value.

Is a supportive vibrant growing innovative Ada community in the interest of a corporate interest that depends not on innovation and creativity but fear of failure (both for their customers and themselves) one that would support such endeavors? It could be, but that requires humbling, communication and a benevolence focus.

Such a surprising change would be nice if it happened the capacity for it is there, the people involved are all good people, but suffer from a lack of ability to accept outside perspectives (i.e. the need to humble). Given the only way to reach such a corporate interest is direct corporate contacts that are often ignored (i.e. the need to communicate), it would be better for us to concentrate on each other and future potentials that could be cultivated with or with out them (i.e. what benevolence will bring).

So now that we have a community compiler, GetAdaNow.com, and once done with creating a nice collection of "Awesome things you can do with Ada" for LearAdaNow.com, I (and I hope others) will be on to pushing that info beyond the walls of the small Ada community. We can then push step 3, already slowly in progress of, JoinAdaNow.com for a drive for membership to an informal open Ada group (hopefully with or even under the existing groups).

David Botton

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

hmm, well there it is, the pompous egotistical dreamer... why not, someone has to do it and almost the entire world refers to Ada in the past tense already so about the only thing I can do is succeed :)

David Botton

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[Luke A. Guest]

David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
> I've added:
> 
> All submitted videos and associated materials must have no restrictions
> on reuse and distribution and be original new works.
> 
> That should allow people to maintain copyright but allow others to pass
> around the video and materials.
> 
> David Botton

Why not just enforce that they upload to YouTube where anyone can see it?

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-04-02, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
>> I've added:
>> 
>> All submitted videos and associated materials must have no restrictions
>> on reuse and distribution and be original new works.
>> 
>> That should allow people to maintain copyright but allow others to pass
>> around the video and materials.
>> 
>> David Botton
>
> Why not just enforce that they upload to YouTube where anyone can see it?

Youtube gets you the video presentation, but what about all the
associated software material such as code, documentation, circuit
diagrams (for hardware projects), etc ?

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

> > Why not just enforce that they upload to YouTube where anyone can see it?
> 
> Youtube gets you the video presentation, but what about all the
> associated software material such as code, documentation, circuit
> diagrams (for hardware projects), etc ?

I have the server capacity and want to make sure around for the future, I don't see though why couldn't be on youtube too :)

As for materials, exactly the reason I want sent to me to make sure available for the long term future.

David Botton

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[Luke A. Guest]

Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

>> 
>> Why not just enforce that they upload to YouTube where anyone can see it?
> 
> Youtube gets you the video presentation, but what about all the
> associated software material such as code, documentation, circuit
> diagrams (for hardware projects), etc ?

You can create links in the description

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[brbarkstrom]

Requiring a video for an entry may be a bit restrictive.
I've no experience at creating one and there would be
time required to learn how to do it - as well as acquiring
a camera.  Can we open up the rules to allow pdf or other
kinds of tutorials?

Bruce b.

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[brbarkstrom]

As another suggestion on copyright - the Creative Commons
licenses are often used in communities I'm familiar with
to provide a variety of degrees of protection to authors.
A common one is the "share and share alike" one, which might
promote the kind of community you are seeking to create.
The home site is

<http://creativecommons.org/>

The middle tab has a "Choose a License" entry to various
options.

This is perhaps a little more formality that you might have
expected, but may save some time and effort later.

Bruce B.

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[Luke A. Guest]

<brbarkstrom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Requiring a video for an entry may be a bit restrictive.
> I've no experience at creating one and there would be
> time required to learn how to do it - as well as acquiring
> a camera.  Can we open up the rules to allow pdf or other
> kinds of tutorials?

Screen casting software to record your desktop, then import the video into
one shot, edit from there.

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[Luke A. Guest]

Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> <brbarkstrom@gmail.com> wrote:

> Screen casting software to record your desktop, then import the video into
> one shot, edit from there.

Or openshot.

Audio will be the hardest for me.

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[David Botton]

On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 2:27:44 PM UTC-4, brbar...@gmail.com wrote:
> Requiring a video for an entry may be a bit restrictive.
> I've no experience at creating one and there would be
> time required to learn how to do it - as well as acquiring
> a camera.  Can we open up the rules to allow pdf or other
> kinds of tutorials?
> 
> Bruce b.

Just do a set of slides run a screen cast program and record yourself as you switch slides.

I'm sure there will be other contests in the future that are not multimedia based but I'm looking to collect materials to use for Ada advocacy and A/V is one way to show a more modern living Ada community. There are of course many more and we will get to them all :)

David Botton

Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada

[brbarkstrom]

Understand.  Good marketing explanation.