From Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM  Sun Nov 20 08:58:11 2005
From: Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM (alessioc)
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:58:11 PST
Subject: [edu-challenge] excluded countries
Message-ID: <26793864.1132505921424.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

what's the reason of the exclusion of so many countries from the contest?
I can see that the only allowed countries are:
"United States and the District of Columbia, the United Kingdom, India, China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Mexico, France, Russia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and Indonesia." (...sorted by which criteria?)
And what about the rest of the world? 
Are these countries eligible only because they are directly related to Sun's products engineering-outsourcing?
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From patrick.finch at sun.com  Tue Nov 22 06:25:04 2005
From: patrick.finch at sun.com (Patrick Finch)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:25:04 PST
Subject: [edu-challenge] Re: excluded countries
In-Reply-To: <26793864.1132505921424.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
Message-ID: <29041236.1132669534535.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

Hi,

Noone was happy with the fact that we had to exclude countries.  I can unequivocally state that it was nothing to do with outsourcing, or the location of Sun engineers.  I understand rather it is to do with specific regulations concerning the admininstration of such competitions around the world. 

If, like me, you live in an area which is not included in the competition, I can only apologise.  I can tell you FWIW that we are hoping to run something similar which will be more geographically inclusive, but that's an aspiration right now.  

regards

Patrick
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