FP Complete Launches FP Haskell Competition with $1,000 Cash Prize Each Month

I’m very excited to announce our competition for sample Haskell

code and tutorials of real-world engineering and business

solutions. The winning entry each month will get $1,000 cash prize,

with a maximum of 3 runner-up prizes of $500 each. There may be

multiple prizes each month or none at all if none meet the winning

criteria. There are no limits on how many prizes each individual,

team or group can win in any month or the duration of the contest.

In other words, you can make some serious play money here!

Each entry consists of a working solution to an applied problem,

plus accompanying tutorial material to teach others how to build

similar programs. Entries must be built or build on FP Haskell

Center. Anyone not affiliated with FP Complete is eligible to

enter. The competition starts August 2013.

Entries may be based on new or pre-existing content and code, as

long as they haven’t been published before and you’re willing to

share it with the community. Understandable, well-organized,

tutorial documentation and reusable code--often in conjunction with

other languages--are more important than advanced

programming techniques or theoretical purity. Your program must

solve an applied problem or class of problems.

Since Entries must be built or build on FP Haskell Center, you need to sign up for its Beta, if you haven’t already.

Why are we doing this? Simple: because the Haskell community

needs to vastly expand for Haskell to become a mainstream language.

To do this we must show people how to use this amazing language in

solving real-world business problems. People tell us they need to

see running and documented examples of real-world problems and

solutions, so they can quickly see how to design their own working

solutions. They also want material to show their colleagues and

bosses just how useful Haskell is today. This contest intends to

crowd source programming recipes into an applied Haskell

cookbook.

We really believe in this program as a key driver to greater

Haskell adoption, which is good for the Haskell-functional

programming communities and FP Complete. So we want to incentivize

the collective energy and talent of the community to produce

content to promote our common cause. So, get your creative and

competitive juices going, and make some extra money for rent, a

trip to Hawaii, building your own drone or whatever else turns you

on.