Yahoo!-Sugar Coding Contest Limitation: let's discuss

[susiewilliams]

Hi gang,

We recently launched our Yahoo!-Sugar coding contest, going on during the month of April 2007. We know there is one big drawback with the contest- due to the advice of our legal staff, we can only run the contest in the U.S., which we know cuts out a good portion of our developer community.

Now, I am probably the last person you'd ever accuse of being U.S.-biased (having lived and traveled overseas for several years), but I know when to listen to the legal eagles... believe me when I tell you we tried everything to make the contest open to all.

So we have a potential alternative to have some fun and include our non-U.S. friends. What if we held an informal coding festival for you? No prizes (since those Gaming Laws seem to be the root of our lawyers' discontent) but we would offer something like a tee shirt to everyone who submitted an entry. We would promote the "winners" (i.e.- the best entries in the same three categories as the "official" contest) on SugarForge and would give people lots of free publicity, maybe a press release or two, anything but an actual "prize" so the lawyers would be happy.

So, my International friends, if we held this second, parallel "not-a-contest" for you, would you enter?

Let me know.

-Susie W.

[dafreakboy]

Que Lastima! Mis amigos en Latina America somos triste...

[kpit]

English translation of above message:

That It hurts! My friends in Latin America we are sad.