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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: The LearnAdaNow.com Contest - Do Something Awesome with Ada
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:17:57 +0000 (UTC)
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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.

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