Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-09 Thread Garrett Serack
ck Cc: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest! Sounds great ... I would try myself on the SDL and SDL_gfx libraries which should already have working VS2010 csproj files (contributed by me last year). As for prizes: T-shirts are always welcome, a

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Andreas Schiffler
Sounds great ... I would try myself on the SDL and SDL_gfx libraries which should already have working VS2010 csproj files (contributed by me last year). As for prizes: T-shirts are always welcome, as are Kinect units (especially since the SDK is coming out soon). C

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Adam Baxter
winners get their MSDN subs renewed? ;) On Jun 3, 2011 1:15 AM, "Garrett Serack" wrote: > Hey folks, > > (not an official announcement yet!) > > We're reaching a stage in the CoApp project where we can really use the help of Windows developers to assist us in shallow forking open source projects a

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Rafael Rivera
re: prize quantity/quality -- I think we should focus on many smaller items, to get closer to "everyone wins something". /rafael On 6/2/2011 8:15 AM, Garrett Serack wrote: Hey folks,   (not an

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Eric Schultz
I think it's a cool idea! As for prizes, Github itself might be someone to talk to. In a lot of cases this will be using the fork functionality and that's Github's claim to fame, so to speak. Hell they might even be willing to promote it on their blog. I think the issue of the type of prizes is d

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Eric Schultz
11-github-issue-tracker > > > > -- Tom > > > > *From:* coapp-developers-bounces+hanrahat=microsoft.com@ > lists.launchpad.net [mailto:coapp-developers-bounces+hanrahat= > microsoft@lists.launchpad.net] *On Behalf Of *Garrett Serack > *Sent:* Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:15 A

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Garrett Serack
lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest! Hey folks, (not an official announcement yet!) We're reaching a stage in the CoApp project where we can really use the help of Windows developers to assist us in shallow forking open source projects as a precursor to producin

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Tom Hanrahan
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[Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Garrett Serack
Hey folks, (not an official announcement yet!) We're reaching a stage in the CoApp project where we can really use the help of Windows developers to assist us in shallow forking open source projects as a precursor to producing actual CoApp packages for products and libraries. I have an idea to