From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2009-01-16T22:49:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Quizmaster Retiring: Revenge of the Sith

Well, I never did get into the sort of quiz habit that I always wanted  
to develop, but I did enjoy reading the submissions and summaries.  
Thank you both James and Matt!

As for the future of the Ruby quiz, what about a rotating quizmaster?  
I've never done this with a programming quiz, but it's worked in other  
weekly/periodic challenge situations I've been involved in before. The  
idea would be that a quiz would go out along with some criteria: least  
lines of code, quickest runtime, smallest memory footprint, best use  
of blocks, etc. Then, when the submission come in, the participants  
vote on who "won" the quiz, and that person then becomes the quiz  
master for the next week.

Assuming we all have GitHub accounts, we could even start a public  
project with quiz descriptions, solution validation tests, best and  
runner-up solutions, summaries and whatnot. Then, each new week's  
quizmaster could fork the project and add the new quiz.

I wish I had more time to help with this myself (maybe in 6-8 months I  
could), but I thought I'd throw the idea out there and see what people  
think...

Cheers,

Josh