Programming contest/regional 2006

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Contents 1 Local contest 2 Staff 3 Timetable 3.1 Pre-contest 3.2 Contest 3.2.1 Our Schedule 3.2.2 Example Schedule 3.3 General todo 3.3.1 Unscheduled 3.3.2 Done 3.4 Systems 3.5 PC^2 3.6 To be put on the homes 4 Food 4.1 Breakfast 4.2 Lunch 4.3 Dinner

Local contest

Date: Saturday, October 28, 2006

12 teams, ~50 contestants, reserves, coaches, staff.

Staff

• Eric Perlman: not quite local judge
• Venkatesh Srinivas: local judge
• Rich Ercolani: helpful dude and bathroom guy
• Albert Lee: co-(Site Director and Sysadmin)
  • Site Director login info in ~officers/contest06
• Asheesh Laroia: co(Sysadmin and Site Director)

(Is this in sync with the list that upstream has?)

Timetable

Pre-contest

• Test workstation setup
• Test PC^2
• Setup automatic grading through PC^2

Contest

Our Schedule

• 8:00-8:30: Registration, optional breakfast
• 8:30-9:00 Register the teams, give out certificates, badges, T-shirts etc.
• 9:00-9:30 Welcome, introduction, rules, orientation
• 9:30-11:00 Practice problem
• 11:00-12:00 Lunch
• 12:00-17:00 Competition
• 17:00-18:00 Dinner
• 18:00-18:30 Results announced and awards presented

Example Schedule

• 8:00-8:30: Registration, give out certificates, badges, T-shirts etc. optional breakfast
• 8:30-9:30 Welcome, introduction, rules, orientation
• 9:30-10:30 Practice problem (if everything alright)
• 11:00-12:00 Lunch
• 12:00-17:00 Competition
• 17:00-18:00 Dinner
• 18:00 End results announced and awards presented

General todo

9am:

• Think about pizza ordering; try to order despite its hours

9am:

• Venkatesh, test balloon strategy

Unscheduled

• Asheesh: Can coaches see questions?
• Flesh out coach plan
  • Reserve laptop for scoreboard
  • Webcam in room
• Scratch paper during contest
• Asheesh: Email Dr. Htay with ACK on readiness
• Fax directions to 410-468-0966

• Print signs ("Confused?", directions to rooms, etc.)

Done

Night before:

• Buy 150 plates, cups, napkins (lunch and dinner and extra)
• Have at least 50 forks for dinner
• Buy two or three tubs cream cheese
• Buy 2 gallons orange juice
• Buy 12 2-liters of soda

• Done: Albert: Check that badges are in the T-shirt box
• Done: Asheesh: Reserve Shaffer 101
• Done: Asheesh: Email Dr. Scott about money
• Done: Venkatesh: Print badges and certificates

Morning of:

• Buy 40 bagels from e.g. New System Bakery
• Discuss: Figure out who's saying what at rules etc. in morning
• Return Eric's car
• Albert: Make sure Albert is on acm-midatl-systems

Systems

• Make new live CD
• Albert should fix these things on the live CD
  • root password!
  • create routes to 137.45.192.40 and 137.45.192.104
  • Make clients set their hostnames correctly
• Someone should fix these things on the NFS esrver
  • umask on home dirs
  • Sane defaults for home dirs (copy from adduser'd home dir on live contest system)
  • Have list of clients for cssh, using private key in ~officers/contest*
  • Make clients set hostname to match IP address instead of contest
• Set up tiresias as contest server again
  • Exporting PC^2 client software and docs on /usr/local
    • Check web browser default URL, in-contest info should be there (dir is probably a symlink to /usr/local)
      • Copy of contest web site with additional links
      • C STL documentation (http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee/fun/STL-doc/ is preferable to the STL Programmer's Guide, but include both)
      • JDK 1.5.0 documentation (in ~officers)
      • HTML versions of libc man pages?
  • Set up NIS and accounts - print out password table
  • Check printing

PC^2

• Make user accounts, should be made in PC^2
  • team1 through team25
  • judge1

To be put on the homes

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Food

For ~50 contestants, reserves, and coaches and 4 staff.

See also last year's food.

Breakfast

• 2 1 gal. milk
• 2 1 gal. orange juice?
• 50 bagels from New System Bakery

Lunch

All from Angelo's (410-235-2595): NOT YET ORDERED

Half from Pizza Boli's ((410) 235-1000; arrive at 11:15; $147):

• 7 cheese (retrospect: far too many damn cheese pizzas)
• 3 pepperoni
• 2 sausage
• 2 mushroom
• 2 pineapple
• 1 green pepper
• 1 tomato

• 6 bottles of soda per meal should be fine (8 cups per two-liter)

• 3 slices time 50 people is 150 slices. Divided by 8 per pizza is 18.75 pizzas; 18 should be fine....

Dinner

India Tandoor, $525 cash, 410-468-0969 (Paid! by Asheesh's credit card)

• Chicken tikka masala
• Palak paneer
• Aloo gobi
• Lamb curry
• Naan
• Rice