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- <p>The rules aren't very formal. The idea is to have fun.</p>
- <h3>Who gets what when?</h2>
- <p>The author of each "winning" work only gets the kudos (and Google page rank
- from our backlink) from the successful article. The perl foundation gets the
- money, at whatever the pound/dollar exchange rate is at that time. The idea of
- "good enough" is to try to find some trade off between quality of winners, and
- time to get winners, without having an artificial entry deadline or deciding
- that no entries were received that deserved to win. The intent is that the
- judges declare an article to be a "winner" for a category when they think it
- is good enough, and that it is unlikely that someone else is about to send in
- something better. (So that we don't inadvertently annoy someone else who has
- something nearly finished).</p>
- <p>The idea of this spoofathon is to publish spoof advocacy articles online, so
- by entering you are deemed to have given consent for us to publish your
- article (with correct attribution) on the official pages here at
- <a href="http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/">http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/</a>. Copyright remains with the
- submitter.</p>
- <p>I'm hoping that people will still write these things after all the rewards
- have reached TPF. So please don't be annoyed if you find your article is
- sitting next to one or more other takes on why Brainfuck is better than perl,
- or if we declare one or more joint winners. The principal purpose of this
- exercise is to have fun.</p>
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- <h3>Judges</h2>
- <p>Schwern and Greg McCarroll have kindly agreed to act as judges. The purpose of
- judges is to maximise the amount of fun to be got from the finite amount of
- money. The judges decision is final (<a href="https://donate.perl-foundation.org/">unless bribed</a>), and their subjective sense of humour
- may will differ from yours (and mine). The judges are quite welcome to send
- back entries with suggestions on why they didn't like them, and what could be
- changed - after all, the aim of all this is to get the most humorous
- articles, not to formally find "winners".</p>
- <p>As the entries are intended to be published online, please submit them in a
- format that is easy to convert (eg text, POD, well formed HTML). Many people
- have heard Greg's ability to read non-English words, so it's best to submit
- your entries in English. I see no problem in submitting an original in another
- language with a translation to English, and we host both, but it may turn out
- that this is impractical for technical reasons.</p>
- <p>It's likely that the judges will wait a couple of weeks to gauge the level of
- interest. However, don't delay, as I've already seen two side splitting draft
- entries.</p>