Talk:Weekend of Code/Rules

Who judges?

 * Prize winner(s) will be selected by a panel of judges composed of members of WMF

Can we say "chosen by WMF" instead? Let's at least allow for the possibility of having nonstaff on the judging team. Sumanah 20:27, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

I like it. Change made. --Gregdek 21:36, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

WHAT'S WITH THE SHOUTING?
Is someone trying to be intentionally obnoxious? Fix the headers, please. --MZMcBride 22:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Age restrictions?
"Contest is open to anyone over the age of 18 anywhere in the world (except for certain countries listed below)."


 * As a point of interest, we've made initial volunteer-dev contact with a lot of our current generation of bright young staff & contract programmers before they were 18. Restricting high-school-age and young college-age students from participating may keep them out of the track we want them on. --brion 20:21, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Country restrictions?
"Residents of Cuba, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and any other countries and Specially Designated Nationals listed by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control..."


 * Kinda lame. I suppose it's probably difficult as a practical matter to hire or contract folks from those countries, but it's the kind of restriction that irks, especially for Wikimedia! Improved Farsi support for instance is something we'd always like to see. If this is legal boilerplate that's required in some way, care should be taken to explain why we can't allow people to submit contest code from those countries but will happily accept their Wikipedia contributions, site JS code, and MediaWiki patches. --brion 20:24, 19 October 2011 (UTC)