[PD] Patch Contest Thread/List

Richie Cyngler glitchpop at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 23:48:19 CEST 2011


I like the idea of remixing/frankensteining other people's patches (like
what was happening in the compressed chip sounds thread). Maybe there could
be different categories? Or it could alternate between them month to month?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Tyler Leavitt <thecryoflove at gmail.com>wrote:

> Cool. Yeah, I don't think the app needs to do anything to grand... just
> take submissions and then randomly select one once a month and auto-post on
> the forum and list. I'll try and start a quick and dirty one tonight after
> homework is done =)
>
> Any suggestions on what to call this? It's not a huge deal but mmb made a
> good point that "contest" isn't really applicable... he suggested
> "challenge" which sounds good to me. How should we format the subject line
> for the list notification email?... would [PatchChallenge] be a suitable
> identifier?
>
> Tyler
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  I'll prototype something when I get some time. It'd be a fairly
>> straightforward app, forms to submit themes. Then probably just an admin
>> view where you can take submitted themes and convert them into active ones
>> (which would then accept patches and allow people to download these and
>> comment on them.
>>
>> I'm not convinced about this app being integrated with the forum.
>> Otherwise there'd probably be no advantage over just taking submissions by
>> email and dropping them on the forum. I could also get this to send an
>> e-mail to the pd-list when a theme is activated (I don't know if there'd be
>> any problems with automated e-mails to the list?)
>>
>> As I say, stick with the forum for now. I'll post a prototype once I've
>> managed to put something together. Then you can decide if it's worth
>> developing further.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:29:01 -0700
>> From: thecryoflove at gmail.com
>> CC: pd-list at iem.at
>>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Patch Contest Thread/List
>>
>> Yeah I would be fine acting as a moderator (for the forum). Andy Farraday
>> mentioned writing an app that would take theme submissions... I don't know
>> how easily this could be integrated into the forum but we'll discuss that
>> more. It appears "Maelstrom" is the main moderator of the forums, so I'll
>> contact him and see about getting it setup.
>>
>> Tyler
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:22 AM, hardoff goes bananas <hard.off at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> ok, will we set up a section of the forum for this?
>>
>> Tyler, as this was your suggestion, would you be able to manage/run it?
>>
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