On Oct 29, 10:27 pm, Adam N <a...@varud.com> wrote: > All, > > In case people hadn't heard, DARPA just announced what I think is the > coolest competition ever: > > http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/ > > On December 5, DARPA will raise 10 red weather balloons somewhere in > the US. The first person to get the location of all 10 balloons and > submit them will be given $40k. > > I'm proposing that if "I" win, half the money ($20k) will be given to > the Django Software Foundation. The other half ($20k) will go to the > Python Software Foundation.
Uh...didn't read the rule about "Tax treatment of prizes will be handled in accordance with U.S. Internal Revenue Service guidelines", eh? > > I've set up a StackOverflow site for coordination for anybody who > would like to join: > > http://darpa.stackexchange.com/ > > I think the first thing that needs to happen is to get a critical mass > of users on the site and to use the Q&A capabilities of the site to > figure out what tools we should use next. > > Cheers, > Adam Nelson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
