Prizes for open-source Eiffel software
geoff@elj.com
geoff@elj.com
Sun, 26 Sep 99 08:33:48 GMT
The Non-Profit International Consortium for Eiffel (NICE):
http://www.eiffel-nice.org/
is organising the 3rd Annual Eiffel Struggle and made an initial
call for participation in June 1999:
http://www.eiffel-nice.com/eiffel/struggle99/cfp/
First prize is $2,000 (two thousand) US, 2nd prize is 1000 Euros
(one thousand) with the 15 other prizes ranging from professional
compilers/libraries as well attendenace at one of the TOOLS
conferences (USA, Europe, Pacific) (including accomodation and
air travel). A number of book awards are also available.
The closing date for submissions is 15 October 1999 (~3 weeks to go).
The results from last years Eiffel Struggle '98 are here:
http://www.elj.com/eiffel/struggle98/results/
There are plenty of getting started resources available from the call
for participation page. These include:
http://www.elj.com/eiffel/getting-started/doc/
http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/tools.htm
Good starting places for existing libraries include:
http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_eiffel_libraries.html
http://SmallEiffel.loria.fr/general/repository.html
Obviously it would be nice to have some of the comprehensive Python
Libraries:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/lib.html
adapted to Eiffel. Some starting library resources for Linux include:
eGtk: http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/gtk_eiffel.html
http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/bielak/gtk.htm
eSockets: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/straszheim/esockets.htm
EiffelFox: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/Hiebert/efox.htm
eXML: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/leitner/exml.htm
Geoff Eldridge / Secretary - Eiffel/NICE
email: geoff@eiffel-nice.org
Join NICE: http://www.eiffel-nice.org/#membership
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Before you buy.
<P><A HREF="http://www.eiffel-nice.com/eiffel/struggle99/cfp/">3rd Annual
Eiffel Struggle</A> - The Non-Profit ''International Consortium for Eiffel''
(NICE) calls for an open-source reimplementation of the Python libraries
for the Eiffel language. (25-Sep-99)
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