[H-GEN] Update on the LCA competition to be held at the next two meetings

[Russell Stuart]

This is an update on the student LCA 2011 competition Humbug is holding.
The following lecturers will put show slides I have prepared in their
class:

  John Williams (UQ)
  Michael Mason (QUT)
  Peter Robinson (UQ)
  Rene Hexel (GU)

The following lecturers have generously offered to let me give a short
(5 minute) presentation in their class:

  Jared Ring (QUT)     [Tue 12 Oct, 2 PM]
  Soon Kim (UQ)        [Thu 14 Oct, 12 Noon]
  Ross Hayward (QUT)   [Wed 13 Oct, 5 PM]

You can find the slides I prepared for those showing them here [1]:

  http://www.humbug.org.au/competition?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=lca-competition.pdf

I have put up a competition web page explaining the competition here:

  http://www.humbug.org.au/competition#preview

All suggestions for improvements are welcome.  In fact, have a hack -
especially the spelling and grammar police.

The one unfinished task with respect to organisation is finding a second
judge.  Ben Martin was keen, but has been but has been offered a free
ticket to attend http://www.odfplugfest.be/ in Brussels.  I don't know
if we will need a second judge, but I rather not keep the students
hanging around for hours if this ends up being more successful than I
expect.  So under the motto "better safe than sorry", I'm looking for
another one.

So far I've asked:

  - Sarah Smith
  - John Williams

But for various reasons they can't make it.

Others have given me verbal suggestion on alternatives, but I can't
recall them now.  What I am looking for is someone with a strong history
in open source projects.  AJ was a DPL, Ben is the author of libferris,
Sarah worked on QT and gave lectures at UQ, John is the kernel
MicroBlaze architecture maintainer.

If anybody can recommend someone - either themselves or some else,
please let me know.  I'd really like to get a second judge.