[ocaml-biz] winning the Shootout, work committments

[Brandon J. Van Every]

William D. Neumann wrote:
>
> A couple of things:
>    1: Whoever is running the shootout knows about the problem
> with C#, as
>       is shown by these two posts to the shootout mailing list.
>
>
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2004-June/000025
.html>
>
>
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/shootout-list/2004-August/0000
90.html>
>       However, they haven't taken tose bogus results out of
> C#'s entries in
>       the scorecard -- that needs to be fixed.

One would need to take the political stance of "helping to improve the
Shootout," as in actually doing needed work for it.  I doubt that
grousing would get anywhere, as it appears to be an understaffed
project.  The reason I'm not rushing over to staff the project is I have
several competing options before me:

- correspondance on this mailing list and also ocamlgames
- kicking ocalibs into shape for Windows game development
- adding OCaml support to Nebula2 via SWIG
- improving the Shootout
- programming my own game
- finally learning digital art tools so I can design my own logo and
OCaml's

I'm feeling a bit lost as to my critical path.  They're all important in
a careerist sense.  The e-mails are easy, the rest are all hard work.  I
might get spurred to do the art logos first, however.  I'm sorely in
need of more money from my voter registration job with
http://www.acorn.org .  ACORN is supposed to have a petition in
mid-September, which should make me significatly more money, but it
ain't there until it's there.  If that fizzles, I need a new job.  As
worthy as my political and societal contribution has been, this $8/hour
stuff has gotten quite old.

I will make someone around here a deal they can't refuse.  :-)  If
someone will commit to taking on the burden of the Shootout, I will get
on with coughing out OCaml logos.  That way, I feel that 2 things may be
getting done for my trouble.  Anyone want to take this bond?  It doesn't
have to be a permanent arrangement, I'm actually interested in dealing
with the Shootout myself eventually.

If not, well, we are going to have to eventually face work committments
"of some kind," if we want this list to amount to more than just talk.


Cheers,                     www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
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