Comments on: RootsTech – Day 3 http://idogenealogy.com/blog/2011/02/13/rootstech-day-3/ Genealogy and Life Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doug Blank http://idogenealogy.com/blog/2011/02/13/rootstech-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Doug Blank Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:05:40 +0000 http://idogenealogy.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-1061 I did have to work it in between bedtime and the conference---too old to stay up too late! It should be easier to create a mashup, and the licensing issues are terrible. I wonder if they will do the challenge again next year? I sort of doubt it--- I still haven't received my award from FamilySearch. They don't seem to be too interested in tying up loose ends from last year... I did have to work it in between bedtime and the conference—too old to stay up too late! It should be easier to create a mashup, and the licensing issues are terrible. I wonder if they will do the challenge again next year? I sort of doubt it— I still haven’t received my award from FamilySearch. They don’t seem to be too interested in tying up loose ends from last year…

]]> By: Banai Lynn Feldstein http://idogenealogy.com/blog/2011/02/13/rootstech-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1044 Banai Lynn Feldstein Tue, 31 May 2011 16:22:05 +0000 http://idogenealogy.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-1044 Thanks for your comments Doug. I didn't say the entries were sad, I said the results were sad. Only three entries to something that was looking like it was supposed to be a highlight of the conference? Also, when there are three entries and three prizes, it couldn't have been too difficult for me to win if I'd entered. The only really challenging part, besides learning a new API in two days, was doing that *and* attending the conference. I chose to attend instead. Thanks for your comments Doug. I didn’t say the entries were sad, I said the results were sad. Only three entries to something that was looking like it was supposed to be a highlight of the conference? Also, when there are three entries and three prizes, it couldn’t have been too difficult for me to win if I’d entered. The only really challenging part, besides learning a new API in two days, was doing that *and* attending the conference. I chose to attend instead.

]]> By: Doug Blank http://idogenealogy.com/blog/2011/02/13/rootstech-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1042 Doug Blank Tue, 31 May 2011 13:33:56 +0000 http://idogenealogy.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-1042 "I had an idea that I think was better than two of the three. If only I hadn’t wanted to attend the conference and sleep for 8 hours (spread out over 2 days), I probably could have won one of the prizes. But even though I read about it just before RootsTech started, I knew I didn’t want to take the time to try to program something for it. Sadly, I probably should have." You can't win if you don't play:) You can't claim that the contestants' entries were sad, and that you could have easily have won---that's just lame! Maybe the challenge was more challenging than you thought? Navigating through the licensing issues is partly what lead to my (winning!) project. But I wanted to make a larger point: if the big commercial entities don't give us what we want (with appropriate terms) then we can tweet user-to-user without them. For more details on my project, see: http://www.luxegen.ca/genealogy/rootstech-winner-programmer-software-challenge/ “I had an idea that I think was better than two of the three. If only I hadn’t wanted to attend the conference and sleep for 8 hours (spread out over 2 days), I probably could have won one of the prizes. But even though I read about it just before RootsTech started, I knew I didn’t want to take the time to try to program something for it. Sadly, I probably should have.”

You can’t win if you don’t play:) You can’t claim that the contestants’ entries were sad, and that you could have easily have won—that’s just lame! Maybe the challenge was more challenging than you thought? Navigating through the licensing issues is partly what lead to my (winning!) project. But I wanted to make a larger point: if the big commercial entities don’t give us what we want (with appropriate terms) then we can tweet user-to-user without them.

For more details on my project, see:

http://www.luxegen.ca/genealogy/rootstech-winner-programmer-software-challenge/

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