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Drone Olympics in SF

43 points by yankoff 14y ago

hughlomas 14y ago
What is the goal or challenge? I can find no reference to the criteria that contestants will be judged on.
jotux 14y ago
Before this gets too popular you really need to change the name and remove anything related to the olympics. The US Olympic committee will send you a cease and desist letter and follow with a lawsuit if you don't change it. The olympics are a big business and they protect their copyright fiercely. A few examples: Knitting olympics crackdown: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-22/why-the-u-dot-s-dot-olympic-committee-cracked-down-on-a-knitting-group http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-22/why-the-u-do... Robogames was formerly Robolympics: http://boingboing.net/2003/11/24/olympics-serves-robo.html http://boingboing.net/2003/11/24/olympics-serves-robo.html
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  If you think that's bad, you should have seen the London 2012 branding police. Was the most fierce and ridiculous yet.
- djcapelis 14y ago
  > their copyright Nitpick: This is trademark at issue here, not copyright. Though the USOC and the IOC protect basically everything they can fiercely.
sneak 14y ago
Somebody, anybody, PLEASE win this with a reasonable programming language instead.
- DanielRibeiro 14y ago
  For those that would rather use another language, nowadays can pick from a big hall of languages, besides the usual suspects of Clojurescript and Coffeescript: http://altjs.org/ http://altjs.org/
- Pfhreak 14y ago
  Somebody, anybody, PLEASE tell this guy to be a little less melodramatic.
  - stygianguest 14y ago
    Why, javascript is ill suited to this task. It is perfectly reasonable to question their choice.
ingrid 14y ago
More ladies should apply.
jimrandomh 14y ago
Why was this announced with only 8 days until the event? Assuming it takes three days' shipping for a test copter to arrive, that leaves zero weekends in which to prepare, for someone who jumps on it immediately. I think they're going to be disappointed by the turnout.
- yankoff 14y ago
  This is not an official announcement though, I'm not an organizer of the event. I think they announced it amongst groups interested in robotics long ago. It just happend that I posted a link on HN today ;) As for the copter, you can buy it in Costco, no need to wait!
senthilnayagam 14y ago
Announcement on thanksgiving weekend too short a notice, will not participate, hope i can visit and see the demos
zemanel 14y ago
Some sort of tower defense game would be totally awesome
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frozenport 14y ago
I figured out why its in js! Nathan Rajlich Nodejs core comitter

43 points by yankoff 14y ago

What is the goal or challenge? I can find no reference to the criteria that contestants will be judged on.

jotux 14y ago

Before this gets too popular you really need to change the name and remove anything related to the olympics. The US Olympic committee will send you a cease and desist letter and follow with a lawsuit if you don't change it. The olympics are a big business and they protect their copyright fiercely. A few examples: Knitting olympics crackdown: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-22/why-the-u-dot-s-dot-olympic-committee-cracked-down-on-a-knitting-group http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-22/why-the-u-do... Robogames was formerly Robolympics: http://boingboing.net/2003/11/24/olympics-serves-robo.html http://boingboing.net/2003/11/24/olympics-serves-robo.html

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
If you think that's bad, you should have seen the London 2012 branding police. Was the most fierce and ridiculous yet.
djcapelis 14y ago
> their copyright Nitpick: This is trademark at issue here, not copyright. Though the USOC and the IOC protect basically everything they can fiercely.

sneak 14y ago

Somebody, anybody, PLEASE win this with a reasonable programming language instead.

DanielRibeiro 14y ago
For those that would rather use another language, nowadays can pick from a big hall of languages, besides the usual suspects of Clojurescript and Coffeescript: http://altjs.org/ http://altjs.org/
Pfhreak 14y ago
Somebody, anybody, PLEASE tell this guy to be a little less melodramatic.
- stygianguest 14y ago
  Why, javascript is ill suited to this task. It is perfectly reasonable to question their choice.

ingrid 14y ago

More ladies should apply.

jimrandomh 14y ago

Why was this announced with only 8 days until the event? Assuming it takes three days' shipping for a test copter to arrive, that leaves zero weekends in which to prepare, for someone who jumps on it immediately. I think they're going to be disappointed by the turnout.

yankoff 14y ago
This is not an official announcement though, I'm not an organizer of the event. I think they announced it amongst groups interested in robotics long ago. It just happend that I posted a link on HN today ;) As for the copter, you can buy it in Costco, no need to wait!

senthilnayagam 14y ago

Announcement on thanksgiving weekend too short a notice, will not participate, hope i can visit and see the demos

zemanel 14y ago

Some sort of tower defense game would be totally awesome

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frozenport 14y ago

I figured out why its in js! Nathan Rajlich Nodejs core comitter