Re: A.P.P.L.E. Announces Apple II Programming Contest

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

bill.martens@gmail.com wrote:
> Today is the start of the 2006 Apple II Programming Contest being
> sponsored by Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange.  For those of
> you participating in the costest, be sure to delare your participation
> by sending an email to the contest email address listed on the web
> page.
>
> The URL for the Contest page is http://www.callapple.org/contest.htm.
> Only entries that have been declared will be accepted.  Last day for
> open declaration of participation will be 30 September 2006.
>
> All entries for the contest must be received by 1 January 2007.  Our
> Judges this year will be as follows:
>
> Eric Shepherd (Syndicomm)
> John Woodall (Vintage Micros)
> and one special judge to be announced later.
>
> All entries will be judged for originality, uesfulness, completeness,
> and of course, the overall riding factor of Coolness as specified by
> our judges.
>
> Be sure and check out the website at
> http://www.callapple.org/contest.htm and put those programming skills
> to work!

Two things, Bill.

1. I note that the contest page causes my browser to want to load a
   Japanese language extension...  ;-(

2. Any particular reason why collaborations of multiple programmers
   are not elegible?  Collaboration seems like something you'd want to
   encourage, particularly if you want larger projects to happen.

-michael

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