[Coco] A CoCo Coding Contest

[Bill Loguidice]

If you have more formal details (who to contact, additional links, etc.), I
can do a front page blog post on Armchair Arcade if you wish. It may or may
not attract additional interest or exposure, but it wouldn't hurt.

-Bill

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On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some of you may remember I took a survey of interest in a CoCo
> programming contest a few months ago.
> The responses were encouraging if not overwhelming, with twelve people
> saying "yes, i definitely want to enter" and four "maybe I will".
>
> Well.. the time has come, and the Angry Birds thread is a good reminder.
>
> I'm going to try to make it happen.  Based on survey responses,
> comments, and discussions on IRC, here are the tentative details.
> Please feel free to comment, suggest changes, etc on the list or to me
> directly.  We can change anything now if needed, but I'd really like
> to finalize this over the coming weekend.
>
> The rules are simple and few:
>
> 1. All entries must be programs that are executable on a Tandy Color
> Computer.  Points may be awarded for compatibility with CoCo 1 or 2
> and for making good use of resources, i.e. running in 16 or 4k.  Use
> of add on hardware, upgrades, etc is allowed but discouraged unless
> the project fundamentally requires them (this is to encourage entries
> that the widest range of folks will be able to run on their own
> systems).
>
> 2. All entries must be released under a “free beer” license.  A "free
> speech" license such as GPL or compatible is very much encouraged so
> that interested people can appreciate your entry in source form, but
> binaries without source will be accepted provided the binaries are
> licensed in such a way that all interested CoCoNuts can have a copy.
>
> 3. The results of judging will be announced at the 2013 CoCoFest! in
> Chicago.  Entries should be in reviewable form one month prior to the
> fest and must be demo-able during the Fest.   Fest attendance is
> highly, highly recommended (because its fun!) but not in any way
> required to participate in the contest.
>
> Review publication:
> Each entry will be reviewed in depth by volunteers. The reviews will
> be published in a Rainbow-like publication.  We will hopefully also
> have some celebrity reviewers who offer insight on each program.
>
> Judging/prizes:
> The judges may consider many factors, including some that are not
> directly part of the program itself, such as the (in)experience level
> of the programmer(s) involved or the quality of a blog detailing their
> efforts along the way, etc.  There will be one "grand prize"/"best of
> show" type award to the single entry the judges agree is most
> outstanding, but there may be any number of additional awards given
> for an unknown number of undisclosed reasons.  From offers already
> made it seems there will be real prizes including CoCo gear and even
> cash.
>
>
> If you'd like to participate but something about these rules makes you
> less interested, now is the time to see if we can't sort that out.
> -Aaron
>
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