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angua : next generation tabbingWelcome to Angua, the next-generation tabbing system. A tabbing system, for those of you who wandered here by chance, is a way of controlling who debates against who in a debating competition. This is a non-trivial problem, with a vast number of ways to permute 4 teams in each debate across a number of rounds. In addition, the system needs to manage a large amount of complex data about each individual, and in turn creates a complex network of relationships. Moreover, each debate needs to have results entered, adjudicators and venues assigned, and so-on and so-forth. a little historyThe project was started in 2001 by Bradley Shuttleworth, in order to the South African National Debating Championships in Cape Town, South Africa. After hacking on the project for a good month-and-a-half, he decided that it would be an extraordinary pity if that kind of effort was never used, and so released it under the GNU GPL. Currently, it is being developed by a Cabal of people so that it can run the Worlds Universities Debating Championship in Stellenbosch, 2003. |
Copyright © 2001 B. Shuttleworth and the SANDC under the GNU GPL. I really don't like copyright statements. They annoy me. Don't make me use my psycho-bunny on you.