[gobo-eiffel-develop] Eiffel Class Struggle 2001

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Dear Gobo Project enthusiasts,

Like every year since 1997, NICE will organize the Eiffel
Class Struggle 2001. It was suggested in a recent discussion
in the Board of NICE that a Gobo theme for the contest this
year would be a good idea. Here is an excerpt:

> Whats about the following:
> 
> 1. Nice will organize the ECS 2001
> 2. ECS 2001 will ask for Libraries or tools supporting or extending the new
> Gobo library
> 3. The detailled specifications will be set by the Gobo Group within the
> next Month (End of August)
> 4. The Gobo Group will be asked to decide who will get the prices
> 5. Nice will donate 3 prices - 1000, 600 and 400 US$
> 6. OT will sponsor the contest with licenses
> 7. we will ask other companies  to sponsor also
> 8. The Gobo goup will be asked to help to formalise this announcement

I would like to know what's your opinion about this
proposal. Apart from the following kind of answers:
"Yeah, that's great!", what I'm really interested in
is whether there are people in this group who will be
ready to spend time as a judge in order to achieve
point 4. when it will be time to do so. Although I
appreciate NICE's suggestion, I'm indeed not willing
(and won't have time) to do all the judging of the
Eiffel Struggle alone. I think that the criteria used
to judge the entries will be more or less the same
as the previous years, but they will have a new
category assessing whether the tool or library follows
the Gobo developer guidelines and how easily it can
be integrated into the overall Gobo package.

PS: I'm sorry I still didn't have time to work on
the Gobo developer guildelines document, but I promise
I will do it as soon as time permits.

-- 
Eric Bezault
mailto:er...@go...
http://www.gobosoft.com