[Wellington-pm] HackOff 2008 - The countdown has begun

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Mon Jul 14 01:44:51 PDT 2008


Hi Coders

(This message was Bcc'd to all registered team 'captains').


The HackOff event is Tuesday evening (probably *this* evening by the
time you receive this).

If you were leaving it to the last minute to register a team - now is
the time to do it.

If you want to take part but don't have a team then let me know (if you
haven't already) and we'll try and hook up the stragglers into teams on
the night.

Catalyst IT are kindly shouting pizza in addition to the usual liquid
refreshments so it's shaping up to be the perfect evening.

The agenda is:

* people should aim to arrive at or before 6:00pm, that's when pizza
  is arriving so don't be late or you might miss out

* the initial 30 minutes is for people to set up their laptops, iron
  out power and networking issues, etc and of course to eat pizza

* the HackOff event will kick off promptly at 6:30pm

* official finish time is 8:00pm

The first team to complete all the problems will be the winner.  If no
team completes all the problems then the team which has completed the
most by 8:00pm will be the winner.  In the event of a tie, the winner
will be decided using the time the last correct solution was provided.

You may be concerned that you don't know what sort of problems you'll be
expected to solve - don't worry, neither does anyone else.  All will be
revealed on the night.  There will not be any crazy Unicode stuff.
There will be an easy problem or two.  There will be pretty clear
instructions for the harder ones.  Mostly.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Cheers
Grant



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