Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alex Samuel <samuel@codesourcery.com>
To: sc-announce@software-carpentry.com, sc-discuss@software-carpentry.com,
Subject: Software Carpentry second round results


		Software Carpentry Design Competition

			 Second Round Results
		 Config, Build, and Track categories

			    4 August 2000

The Software Carpentry project is pleased to announce the selection of
winners in three Open Source design competitions.  The entrants to the
second round competitions, invited finalists from the previous first
round competition, have submitted ten designs, from which one winner
has been chosen in each category by a panel of distinguished judges.

The submitted design documents, results, and summaries of the judges'
comments are all available from the Software Carpentry project web site

		  http://www.software-carpentry.com

The Software Carpentry project would like to thank everyone who
submitted a first or second round design entry and participated in the
discussions on the project's mailing lists.  We look forward to your
continued involvement.

The winning second round designs are,

  * In the Config category:    `SapCat' (R Linday Todd, PhD)

  * In the Build category:     `sccons' (Steven Knight)

  * In the Track category:     `Roundup' (Ka-Ping Yee)


Judging was not easy, and many innovations were exhibited in the
runners-up.  We hope all participants will work together to combine
these strengths into a set of powerful software engineering tools.



		       About Software Carpentry

The aim of the Software Carpentry project is to create a new
generation of easy-to-use software engineering tools, and to document
both those tools and the working practices they are meant to support.
The Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory is
providing $860,000 of funding for Software Carpentry, which is being
administered by CodeSourcery LLC.  For more information, contact the
project management at <management@software-carpentry.com>.