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05:39
@AnnonomusPenguin I have been pretty busy with stuff. Haven't been active on SE for quite a while now.
@AnnonomusPenguin Sure. It was relatively popular last year. We got external attention and support from SE. It would make sense to keep it going annually at the very least. But then again, I am not in touch with things on the site at present so you'll be a better judge of this.
 
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12:27
@AsheeshR I was more saying I wonder if we should do the same exact thing, or if we should twist the rules to make it more interesting. I'm not sure yet what we would do for that.
 
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14:48
@AnnonomusPenguin That will need some thought. I was thinking of making the contest emphasize more on 1) projects having potential for some kind of local-social-environmental impact or/and 2) are innovative solutions in some form. Its difficult to say what to expect, but given the growing maturity of the site and growing community, I think it can be pulled off. Just to be clear, I don't mean excluding certain projects, just to maybe encourage more useful (beyond one person) projects.
Other than that, a few things that should definitely be changed IMO:
- Project Code should be freely available online
- Basic Project Circuit Diagram should be also be required
- Limit the number of images *shown* per answer to 2-3 and/or maybe require a YouTube video showing demo
The 2-3 limit is because I remember some of the answers had a lot of images + some were high res leading to excessive load times on an already image heavy page. (Not everybody has broadband speeds and it gets annoying pretty fast).
@AsheeshR we could also just ask people to compress the images
Other stipulations sound good. Let me think about what we might want to encourage.
I feel like by encouraging social projects we are also discriminating against all that work solo.

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