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Subject: Re: ICFP'00 programming contest
In-Reply-To: <20000822115640.46767@pauillac.inria.fr> "from Xavier Leroy at Aug
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From: proff@suburbia.net (Julian Assange)
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> That's one strategy.  So far, teams have been relatively small and
> composed of members of the same institution -- it helps to be able to
> work in the same room!  But maybe a big, distributed team can also do well.

Effectively you would end up with a small team, self assembling out of the
large one once the problem was revealed (most people could even resign from
the team at that point). The idea is to have people ready just incase their
skills have a match. This also encourages more people to be involved who
wouldn't otherwise enter.

> > Will Inria be entering this year?
> 
> Yes, of course!
> 
> - Xavier Leroy

I thought you said it was just a pissing contest :)

Cheers,
Julian.