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ESUG Innovation Technology Awards
The European Smalltalk Users Group (ESUG) is proud to announce its first Innovation Technology Awards. The top 3 teams with the most innovative software will receive, respectively, 500 Euros, 300 Euros and 200 Euros during an awards ceremony at the next ESUG conference (6-10 september 2004, K%F6then, Germany). Developpers of any Smalltalk-based software are welcome to compete.
Eligibility
Any Smalltalker can apply (students, companies, ...)
The presented piece of code/software should be written in Smalltalk or directly support Smalltalk (e.g. Smalltalk VM)
All Smalltalk dialects are accepted
The applicant should own the copyright/copyleft of presented code or at least be the official representative of the copyright/copyleft owner
The presented software should be recent. It should have been finished after the 1st january 2002.
The software should be free for non commercial use.
How to apply?
Applicants should provide :
a short paper (in PDF format) up to 3 A4 pages in 12pt font with :
keywords for the entry, and
Smalltalk platforms it runs on, and
whether it is a free or shareware, or a professional piece of software,
names and affiliation of developers, and
description of their software, and
one or more screenshots of their software, if possible, and
a runnable demo (available for download or on a CD).
Winners will be selected by votes of the conference attendees.
Pieces of software will be downloadable from the ESUG website 2 weeks before the conference to give people the chance to evaluate it.
Every applicant can give a 10min talk/demo during the conference.
Then, conference attendees do vote.
A vote consists in providing a sorted list of 3 prefered pieces of software. Voters should provide such a list based on their preception of software's:
Innovation and Creativity
Stability and Performance
Successfull use
Winners are softwares which ranks top the most often.
Dates
Applications (see requirements) should be sent by july 1st
Notification of eligibility will be sent by july 31st
Demos, votes and the Awards Ceremony will take place during the ESUG Conference, 6-10 september 2004, K%F6then, Germany.
I'm curious about the "finish date" - January 2002?
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