A community vote sounds good. To have appointed judges seems too stuffy for this forum -- it somehow doesn't feel right to me. It's not as if we're going to be receiving dozens of entries. There may only be a handful.
Going one step further, what if there were no voting or judging at all? Like this, maybe:
- Anyone who manages to get a design working and describe it becomes a winner. The prizes BillO has provided (thanks, Bill!) would go out chronologically, with the first successful applicant getting first choice, the second applicant getting second choice, and so on.
I know this changes the spirit of the the thing somewhat, and some folks may miss the excitement of having winners and losers. Be that as it may, there's one pure advantage I'm sure of.
The whole thing becomes a lot easier to administer. That's because there's no need to have all the entries assembled by a certain deadline. Also need for the fun to end -- even years from now we may still get a straggler or two.
It's BillO's call, of course -- I'm only making a suggestion (and I'm unlikely to participate, unfortunately). I think the basic goals would still be satisfied, with lots of fun and some terrific entries. And I hardly suppose that anyone here would try to cheat by rushing in with a hasty and uninteresting project.
-- Jeff
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