<div dir="ltr">Anyone interested in doing this? (we'd be behind by a few days)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tommy Butler</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfwpm@internetalias.net">dfwpm@internetalias.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:06 PM<br>Subject: [pm_groups] Announcement - Dallas/Ft Worth Perl Mongers Hackathon Invitational<br>To: PM Groups <<a href="mailto:pm_groups@pm.org">pm_groups@pm.org</a>><br><br><br>
  

    
  
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        Arial, sans-serif">I just ran this announcement on Google+ and
        PerlMonks.org.  If you have a blog or facebook account you could
        share the news there as well.  We'd appreciate it.  All groups
        are invited:<br>
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        Arial, sans-serif"><b>ANNOUNCEMENT</b><br>
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    <p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Helvetica,
        Arial, sans-serif">You could call it the DFW.pm's "Winter of
        Code". You could call it a contest. You could call it fun. You
        could call it Perl...</font></p>
    <p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Helvetica,
        Arial, sans-serif">...And you'd be right!<br>
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    <p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Helvetica,
        Arial, sans-serif">DFW.pm (now joined by New York's NY.pm)  is
        holding in a competition that runs from now until January 8th
        when the code of each competitor will be pitted against the
        others in a live Google hangout world-wide Perl Mongers meeting.</font></p>
    <p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Helvetica,
        Arial, sans-serif">The aim of the competition is to
        "deduplicate" 100 gigabytes of random file data, using Perl, as
        fast as possible. If your code can do it the fastest, without
        killing the contest server, you win. The winner gets to choose
        the topic of the next hackathon competition (and/or host it),
        and gets the recognition of having won a world-wide competition
        in Perl.</font></p>
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        Arial, sans-serif"><strong>The competition is open to all</strong>,
        provided a few criteria are met which establish legitimacy of
        participation. If you want to compete, YOU'RE INVITED!</font></p>
    <p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Helvetica,
        Arial, sans-serif">Full details can be read on the<span> </span><a href="http://dfw.pm.org/" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)" target="_blank">dfw.pm.org</a><span> </span>website.</font></p>
    <p style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="Helvetica,
        Arial, sans-serif">The contest is discussed on<span> </span><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/dfw-pm" style="color:rgb(51,51,153)" target="_blank">The DFW.pm mailing list</a></font></p>
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        Arial, sans-serif">The hackathon was organized by Tommy Butler
        and John Fields of Dallas, TX, and is being hosted by the Dallas
        Makerspace.  Our resources are finite, so we may have to stop
        accepting entries if server load gets too high.  Get your notice
        of intention to participate to the mailing list asap.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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        Arial, sans-serif">--Tommy Butler<br>
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