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[Eric Schultz <wwahammy@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it's a cool idea!

As for prizes, Github itself might be someone to talk to. In a lot of cases
this will be using the fork functionality and that's Github's claim to fame,
so to speak. Hell they might even be willing to promote it on their blog.

I think the issue of the type of prizes is dependent on how many people we
think will be involved. If it ends up that we have like 3 or 4 people that
do all of this, I'm not sure it's the greatest if they end up getting like 5
prizes a piece or something like that, you know? I just don't know how many
people we're going to get doing this.

Eric

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Hey folks,
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> (not an official announcement yet!)
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> We're reaching a stage in the CoApp project where we can really use the
> help of Windows developers to assist us in shallow forking open source
> projects as a precursor to producing actual CoApp packages for products and
> libraries.
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> I have an idea to encourage developers to assist us--it involves running a
> contest:
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> To encourage OSS community developers shallow-fork and create Windows
> builds of OSS projects, according to the procedure (
> http://fearthecowboy.com/2011/05/09/shallow-forking-a-project/) .
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> Each project worth between one and five points, depending on complexity and
> importance (decided by, um... me!) and we go until we have *100 forked
> projects* in github at which point we go into* sudden-death overtime*, where
> people have 7 days to get their forks done in order to count.
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> So we'd end up with a little more than 100 packages, and someone who worked
> really hard on something at close to the end wouldn't get screwed over.
>  Also, we wouldn't have to give anything out until we reached our goal :D
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> Then we draw for prizes, each point gets you one entry in the draw.
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> I’m thinking if we had a sizable number of prizes--Like an
> XBox+Kinect+games bundle at the top, and work our way down, we may be able
> to jumpstart the whole thing. I’ve already got commitment from the
> Outercurve Foundation and Microsoft to furnish some funds for prizes.
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> Plus perhaps we could get t-shirts printed up for all the people who forked
> something... (perhaps with some classy phrase regarding  "Forking projects
> for Windows" ... or "I forked for Windows")
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> It also occurred to me this morning that we could award points in the draw
> for bugs filed (reproducible, accepted bugs) as well.
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> My questions for you:
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> -       I can easily acquire prizes of products that Microsoft produces
> (Xboxes, Kinect, games, mice, keyboards, software) --  does anyone have any
> opinions as to what I should get?  I’m going to have to order the prizes
> before the contest completes in order to get it into this budget cycle.
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>  -       Should I focus on as many large prizes and only a few small
> things, or should I get a lot of smaller/medium things, and a couple big
> ones?
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>  -       Is this something that interests you all?  It’d start pretty
> quick (Probably as early as next week)—and will go until we get to 100
> projects (+sudden death overtime!)
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