I once wrote a piece on how technology is not a silver bullet. However, technology is empowering people and communities to solve their own problems. It is one powerful tool that if properly deployed can emancipate people.
The creator of the most popular forum in Nigeria, Seun Osewa, has just launched a challenge. The challenge is for unemployed [less privileged] or self employed folks to create a solution for the surge that the JAMB website usually sustain when there is massive traffic from students who are online almost at the same time trying to check their result. If this is something that interests you, read on.
According to Seun, the JAMB website goes down every year when results are released. It is a national embarrassment and he believes that this needs to be fixed right away. He also feels the JAMB website is going to crash again after the next UTME exam if we don’t show them how it’s done. In order to mitigate this, Seun has, therefore, announced a programming contest to create an open source JAMB result checking script. He feels the guys at the JAMB Tech. department don’t know what to do and therefore needs to be shown the way. Yes, you read it well… the JAMB Tech guys need to be shown how it is done.
Interested developers are expected to create a simple JAMB result checking website that works just like the official version and can handle millions of candidate records and heavy traffic from all of them trying to check their results on the same day.
Prize:
The person who writes the best JAMB result checking script will win 150 thousand naira.
Contest Conditions:
- You must be unemployed or employed/self-employed and currently earning less than NGN251k per month.
- You must develop your JAMB result checker with Python 3.2, CherryPy , MySQL 5+, & hg on Google Code.
- You must indicate your interest before 12 noon on Sunday, 01 April (this has been extended to 02 April 2012) by posting a link to your repo here.
- You must complete the result checker before 6pm on Friday 6th April and link to it on this thread.
Can you stand the challenge? Start coding. Some might say the cash reward is small. This is an opportunity to create something that is solving a societal problem. It is an opportunity for you to do something you will be proud of. If you want further information or have a question, go ahead and post it here.
For full details of the statement by Seun Osewa, click below [showhide type=”pressrelease”].
Hello Guys & Girls,
The JAMB website goes down every year when results are released. It’s a national embarrassment, and it needs to be fixed right away. I bet the JAMB website is going to crash again after the next UTME exam if we don’t show them how it’s done!
I hereby announce a programming contest to create an open source JAMB result checking script just to show the JAMB Tech guys how it’s done. You’re to create a simple JAMB result checking website that works just like the official version and can handle millions of candidate records and heavy traffic from all of them trying to check their results on the same day.
I’m also offering a prize of 150 thousand naira to the person who writes the best JAMB result checking script, but in order to win the prize, you must satisfy certain conditions:
1) You must be unemployed or employed/self-employed and currently earning less than ?251k per month.
2) You must develop your JAMB result checker with Python 3.2, CherryPy , MySQL 5+, & hg on Google Code.
3) You must indicate your interest before 12 noon on Sunday 1st April by posting a link to your repo here.
4) You must complete the result checker before 6pm on Friday 6th April and link to it on this thread.
The writer of the best result checking script as assessed by me and other judges will win 150,000 naira, provided you qualify and follow all the rules. The money will be deposited into your account about 3 days after the submission deadline.
Ask me any question about this contest and I’ll try to answer you promptly. May you win the ?150k.
Good luck![/showhide]
Image credits: JAMB website
