[Inpycon] [PyCon 2013] Programming Challenges, Hackathons & Sprints, in Python at PyCon

[Vinayak Hegde]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Kushal Das <kushaldas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:35 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > What I asked and desire to understand is if the "hiring challenge"
> > part is taken away, would the online competition involving
> > peer-competition stand in a reasonably healthy way that bolsters the
> > PyCon India brand and, amplifies the efforts of the society?
> I think the answer is no. PyCon India is a community effort. If a
> sponsor wants to do their own coding competitions while the conference
> going on, they can go ahead but that should not be branded as PyCon
> India event.
>

-1 for the programming contest. +1 if people want to run coding sprints. My
reasons are that programming contests encourage "badge collection" (or
certificate collection to bolster resumes) rather than real
learning/contributions to the community which is what PyCon 2013 should
encourage. Hence code sprints and hackathons make sense but not programming
contests.

-- Vinayak
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