Prizes for open-source Eiffel software

[geoff at elj.com]

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 at eiffel-nice.org
Join NICE: http://www.eiffel-nice.org/#membership


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