[Coco] A CoCo Coding Contest

[Aaron Wolfe]

Would it be acceptable to simply say the time period over which an
entry was developed (including previous versions or alternate
implementations by the author) must be disclosed and will be used as a
factor in the judging?


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:48 AM, William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
> Retro Canada has pretty much expressed my sentiments.
>
> I think that would also exclude a "rewrite" of an old project, as well. (I
> have a couple of programs that were published in CFDM that I might consider
> redoing in pure asm or something like that but they have already been
> published in fully functional form so that might be considered cheating.)
>
>
> On 12-11-01 09:43 AM, Retro Canada wrote:
>>
>> I think I should be a completely new entry. No matter if you have been
>> programming that the last 10 years, since it's a new non-published
>> work it will be fine.
>>
>> Otherwise we will be opening a door for the entry to compete again
>> every contest with few or minor updates.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's a good question.  I'd like to know what others who are
>>> considering entry think.
>>>
>>> My initial reaction is that the entry should be written between the
>>> starting and ending dates of the competition.  However, we all have
>>> back burner stuff that might have a little code or design work
>>> completed.  We also have no way to verify if someone followed the
>>> rule, if there was one.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is it OK to submit a project that has been published already but
>>>> hasn't had updates for a few months?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The rules are simple and few:
>>>>
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