larsivi

A few weeks ago, I entered Tango as a project for the Hackontest - a 24 hour hacking contest for 3 select features for various open source projects. The hacking will be done by teams of 3. For those attending, there will be cash prizes and most likely an exciting trip to Zurich, Switzerland.

Now, the catch is that a jury will select the 3 projects/features that will be part of the competition proper, and these will be chosen from those entered at the site linked further up.

When I registered Tango, there was a concern that Tango will be a far to niche project to have a chance, and that the more high profile projects would receive many more votes, and see more activity in general. Well, so far this doesn't seem to the case. Tango isn't the most active project in terms of comments and so, but the 1 feature request so far (by me ...) has got 22 votes, which is 8% of the total votes given at the site(!), and I think there's only 3-4 projects that are truly ahead in terms of voting/activity.

Also, an implementer has registered (at least 3 will be needed for any given feature request), and excitingly enough this seems to be a new person to the community.

Since Tango due to continous voting seems to stay near the top of the list (ordered by latest active), and the site apparently has 6000 unique visitors per day, this should mean a hell of a lot of new visitors to Tango and D. With some luck, and even more activity from you guys!, maybe we can grab a slot for ourselves in the final competition. Unlikely yes, but I still love the whole opportunity for PR that this competition gives us.

Btw, it is hard to know exactly, but I would think that total project activity rates ahead of actual votes for a given feature request, when the judges are to make the final decision. So go ahead now :)

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