The Non-Profit International Consortium for Eiffel (NICE): http://www.eiffel-nice.org/ is organising the 3rd Annual Eiffel Struggle and made an initial call for participation in June 1999: http://www.eiffel-nice.com/eiffel/struggle99/cfp/ First prize is $2,000 (two thousand) US, 2nd prize is 1000 Euros (one thousand) with the 15 other prizes ranging from professional compilers/libraries as well attendenace at one of the TOOLS conferences (USA, Europe, Pacific) (including accomodation and air travel). A number of book awards are also available. The closing date for submissions is 15 October 1999 (~3 weeks to go). The results from last years Eiffel Struggle '98 are here: http://www.elj.com/eiffel/struggle98/results/ There are plenty of getting started resources available from the call for participation page. These include: http://www.elj.com/eiffel/getting-started/doc/ http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/tools.htm Good starting places for existing libraries include: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/ http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_eiffel_libraries.html http://SmallEiffel.loria.fr/general/repository.html Obviously it would be nice to have some of the comprehensive Python Libraries: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/lib.html adapted to Eiffel. Some starting library resources for Linux include: eGtk: http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/gtk_eiffel.html http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/bielak/gtk.htm eSockets: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/straszheim/esockets.htm EiffelFox: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/Hiebert/efox.htm eXML: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/leitner/exml.htm Geoff Eldridge / Secretary - Eiffel/NICE email: geoff@eiffel-nice.org Join NICE: http://www.eiffel-nice.org/#membership Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. <P><A HREF="http://www.eiffel-nice.com/eiffel/struggle99/cfp/">3rd Annual Eiffel Struggle</A> - The Non-Profit ''International Consortium for Eiffel'' (NICE) calls for an open-source reimplementation of the Python libraries for the Eiffel language. (25-Sep-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------