challenge question

[Neal Gafter]

Ray-

Can you please tell us when you expect to announce the winners?

-Neal

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Ray Gans <Ray.Gans at sun.com> wrote:

> You are correct Neal.
>
> We will let the winners know shortly and public announcement will occur in
> conjunction with the other Sun Innovation Awards announcements. Stay tuned.
>  ;-)
>
> -Ray
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Neal Gafter wrote:
>
>  I think they may have to rank, as only 6 projects sent a completion
>> announcement, and the official rules do no pay evenly in case there are
>> fewer than 7 completed projects.
>>
>> -Neal
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Mario Torre <neugens at limasoftware.net
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  Il giorno gio, 07/08/2008 alle 17.44 -0400, Andy Tripp ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> The Challenge page http://openjdk.java.net/challenge/says:
>>>>
>>>>  At the conclusion of the project phase, the Judges will rank the
>>>>>
>>>> completed projects by the degree of successful completion, the technical
>>> merit of the implementation, and the value of the completed project to
>>> the
>>> community.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Will there really be a ranking of completed projects, since the prize
>>>>
>>> money is the same for each?
>>>
>>>> If so, will Sun list the rankings? I'm not requesting that this be done,
>>>>
>>> I'm just curious.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like to request, though, that Sun post something about the
>>>>
>>> results.
>>>
>>>> Even if it's nothing more than saying something like "all projects were
>>>>
>>> judged to be 'complete' and
>>>
>>>> conformed to the rules".
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>
>>> We are not even yet judged!
>>>
>>> I would be against a ranking if the project all equally succeed.
>>>
>>> I would instead be personally happy to receive impressions and
>>> suggestions for the projects, because I think the real goal should be to
>>> improve the OpenJDK code base, not just get the money and forget :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mario
>>>
>>>
>>>
>