Hello guys!
Well, let me clear some issues here. First, I didn’t know that the organizing team did change in 2014 and 2015 only after you said it Vincent. I apologize for saying that too quickly.
From what I know, (Not hearsay [1]) there have been some issues with the 2014 team too, but don’t know exactly the causes.
The next thing is about the sponsors and the entrance fees we had to pay. We all had to be pay Rs 1500 per member, meaning 4 person per group (1500 x 4 = 6000 x 13 groups = Rs 78,000) I believe the amount collected was used to pay the internet, location etc. I take back what I said about “It’s about sponsorship & money”
“pitching your project in front of judges is a skill that many developers need to grow for their career.” — I’m not saying that I am that professional full-stack web developer but I think I have the required competency to work this out. The issue in 2013 was with the “Assessment Skills” of the juries, the juries just visually looked at the website front-end, meaning nothing at the back-end level of the website developed even if you spent 24 hours to develop a fully functional system which can be shipped right away to a client who was willing to pay 100K for that. The juries looked unfamiliar and not even from the “Core Web Development” industry. This is where the main problem is.
I agree on the fact that WebCup is reserved for the young developers out there, who want to test their skills on a national level.
_at_SM: The above comment can be categorized as gossip. Can you provide some information so that a person can verify what is written above? — I did sent an email to the organizing team of 2013 to tell them of the current state of affairs and he himself was quite surprise of my blog post. (Eric Goazé ->
https://www.facebook.com/eric.gouaze?fref=ts) He said he will consider the points enumerated but never reverted back to me :)
To end, WebCup is a good national competition but not for experienced web developers.
[1]
https://twitter.com/echdee/status/579193453092974592
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-----Original Message-----
From: mauritius-internet-users-bounce_at_lists.elandnews.com [mailto:mauritius-internet-users-bounce_at_lists.elandnews.com] On Behalf Of Loganaden Velvindron
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 7:54 PM
To: S Moonesamy
Cc: mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com; vincent pollet
Subject: Re: WebCup 2015 (was: Website security)
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:34 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com <mailto:sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> > wrote:
> Hi Logan,
> At 07:42 10-04-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>>
>> It was the comments that appears on fb, after the competition. Many
>> people claimed that they were disappointed by the choice of the
>> number
>
>
> You did not provide any references for those comments. They can be
> categorized as gossip. You mentioned "many people claimed" and provided
> references to only two blog articles. Nirvan posted the URL to his
> blog article seven hours before your message.
He is free to make modifications whenever he want.
(Nirvan, Did I ask you to amend that article ?)
The fact remains that this article was first published on the 4th June of 2013 :-)
>
>> The views here are my own. Vincent is free to put the footer of his
>> liking :-D
>
>
> I suggest that you do not include automatic disclaimers in your
> messages to this mailing list.
>
>> I would like to clarify that I was involved both in web site
>> development for very large projects in Europe, spanning over multiple
>> servers in various countries. The pressure was immense, and I was
>
>
> The above is not related to the internet in Mauritius.
I was simply proposing help concerning how to factor security into a contract to a client :-) I was working in Mauritius, when this happened :-)
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
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Received on Fri Apr 10 2015 - 17:52:16 PST