[Tccc] Last chance to win up to 5000€: SpoVNet Programming Contest Deadline Extended (May 22)

Philip Mildner mildner
Mon May 16 09:33:44 EDT 2011


The deadline for the submission of the project proposal has been extended:

        Project proposal submission deadline: *** May 22, 2011 ***
        Notification of acceptance:           *** May 27, 2011 ***

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                        Call for Participation
      Programming Contest on Spontaneous Virtual Networks (SpoVNet)
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Call for Participation
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Spontaneous  Virtual   Networks  (SpoVNets)  can  be   used   for  various
applications that employ distributed, peer-to-peer-based services. SpoVNet
offers a mature, easy-to-use framework  that  assists  coping with network
hassles (e.g., NATs, Mobility, and Heterogeneity) and provides a couple of
ready-to-use communication  services.  Since  possibilities  are virtually
infinite in imaginable application cases, we introduce this contest to let
SpoVNets flourish into the wild.

The goal of this contest is to encourage application developers to use the
SpoVNet framework's features  for realizing  their  application ideas.  To
this end,  participants may develop any distributed application they like.

Each interested participant or team must submit a brief proposal following
the submission guidelines available from the project homepage. The quality
and innovation  of this proposal decides on  further participation  in the
programming  period.  In this  period,  teams have  time to work  on their
implementations.  After the  review of the  final submissions the  winners
will be announced.


Example Applications and Services
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The SpoVNet framework already  comes  with two  ready-to-use  services: A
group  communication  service for  peer-to-peer-based  multicast  and  an
event  publish/subscribe  service.  Applications could  be  anything like
video-conferencing,  chat, multiplayer games,  distributed collaboration,

... be spontaneous and creative!


Rewards
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Total prize money is

   10 000 Euro

Additionally,  the winners will  be invited to  attend the award ceremony
co-located  with the  36th  IEEE Conference  on  Local  Computer Networks
(LCN) 2011 held in Bonn, Germany.


What and Where to Submit
------------------------
Send us a brief description of  your application.  How does it make use of
SpoVNet? Submit your project details at

    http://www.spovnet.de/contest

Submissions  may be made  in  ordinary text (*.txt),  PDF,  Microsoft Word
Document (*.doc, *.docx) or OpenOffice Document (*.ods). Use the templates
on  the  contest  website  (http://www.spovnet.de/contest).  Your proposal
should not exceed two pages with 11pt font-size on DIN A4 paper.


Important Dates
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Project proposal submission deadline: *** May 22, 2011 *** (extended)
Notification of acceptance:           *** May 27, 2011 *** (extended)
Final software submission deadline:       Aug 15, 2011

Related Links
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* This call for participation and further information is available at

    *** http://www.spovnet.de/contest ***

* You may also contact us at

    *** contest at spovnet.de ***




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