Idea: eZ jam - 48h prototype challenge for eZ publish

Wednesday 15 June 2011 5:59:02 am

In this post I will take about the idea for a kind of "Global Game Jam" for eZ publish developers.

These days I was thinking about why eZ publish, or any other CMS, developers don't do 48 hours competitions. It is really common for game developers and there are tons of 48h/week(end) game competitions.

It is a really nice way to promote innovation by giving a theme and triggering developers to develop something related to the given theme. In game the theme would be 'cave' or 'stars', in the ez publish field I think we could choose between some new APIs and build an ez publish extension to a selected API.

At the Ludum Dare competition all participants needs to vote one day before the event in a poll. There are 3 iterations, each one remains the the most voted themes of the last iterations.

Porting it to eZ publish field the themes could be a list of new jquery plugins, google APIs, social APIs, etc.

I don't know if it could be prizes for the best extensions, in fact there's no prizes in Ludum Dare competition and it is a big success, but in Global Game Jam there is, and it is bigger success.

What you guys think about it? Have you ever participated in such type of competition? Do you know if there's this kind of competition in the Drupal / Wordpress / Joomla community?

eZ debug

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Database Queries	44

Timing points:

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Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0031	3.3232	15	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0012	1.3378	15	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0015	1.6342	1	0.0015
Mysqli_queries	0.0445	48.4016	44	0.0010
Looping result	0.0007	0.7504	42	0.0000
Template Total	0.0594	64.6	2	0.0297
Template load	0.0019	2.0643	2	0.0009
Template processing	0.0574	62.5384	2	0.0287
Template load and register function	0.0001	0.1012	1	0.0001
states
state_id_array	0.0010	1.0702	1	0.0010
state_identifier_array	0.0011	1.1976	2	0.0006
Override
Cache load	0.0015	1.6210	18	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute name	0.0022	2.3911	3	0.0007
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0075	3	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0006	0.6660	10	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0101	4	0.0000
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Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs