| This looks really, really cool. The challenge for this month, revamping a high school's website, has been something I've poured many many loving hours into over my sophomore and junior years (I am now a senior) in HS. I wrote it for free, open sourced the entire thing (http://github.com/aroman/keeba), and now most of my school's student body uses it every night. I would be positively elated to get my project even looked at my the judges, but I don't know if I'm eligible. I wrote this message to the organizers via the site's contact page, reproduced verbatim below. It is my hope that posting it here will give it a better chance of being answered. ___ Hello! First, this initiative looks really cool — thanks so much for organizing it. Second, I am a HS senior and during my sophomore and junior year I took it upon myself to rewrite the student-facing part of my school's website. I have completely open-sourced the code, and the website is daily active use by the majority of my school's student body. It is a complete alternative to my school's custom homework website, written and designed completely by myself. It dramatically expands the functionality and usability of the existing site. I did this purely out of my own desire to create and to impact my school community. I was not asked to do this, nor did I receive any compensation for the work. You can see more about the project, called Keeba, on my website here: http://aviromanoff.me/projects/keeba/ It has links to both the site and its source on GitHub. *THIS IS MY QUESTION: Am I eligible for this challenge, being as how I've already created the website? It is of course still under active development, but it took many months to create. It would mean the absolute world to me to get my project looked at by some of my heroes — the Python sabdfl and John Resig, as well as the Khan Academy crew and DHH. I sincerely hope this is acceptance Thank you very, very much for your consideration. Avi Romanoff
aviromanoff.me |
I noticed that your a teen who develops a lot, so I thought maybe it would be cool if you were a part of an upcoming teen developer community similar to HN that I'm working on right now at http://teen2geek.com. Also, if you don't mind my asking, how did you become so experienced in computer science so early in high school? I noticed that some of your software is now shipped default in some Linux distros, and that is really impressive, so I would love some tips from you :)