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Celtx Supports MUN Students at 2006 CSGames

Mar 3-5/06 saw some riveting action at the Ecole de technologie superieur in Montreal, as 33 teams representing Universities from across North America snapped, crackled and popped their collective synapses as they battled it out at this year's Computer Science Games ( CS Games).

For three days, participants were challenged individually and by team in a variety of computer science fields. Newfoundland and Labrador's Memorial University was represented by a team of 6 Computer Engineer and 4 Computer Science students who put forth a most respectable performance in a variety of CS domains such as programming, video games, algorithm and logic.

Sam Higdon, President of the MUNCS Society said, " We got 23 out of 33 which is pretty good to us considering the steep competition we were up against. Some students have already started planning for next year.They are getting organized and setting up times to practice to give us the best shot we can have next year."

With four members of the Celtx development team having graduated from Memorial University, Greyfirst Corp. is especially pleased to have been a proud supporter of the home team, and contributor of the computer science community at large.

Cheers!... to the Memorial University Computer Science Team - Way to go, Boys!

Apr.14/06-New submission deadline for FireFoxFlicks Ad Contest

Due to increased interest in the ad contest, the organizers over at Firefox have extended the submission deadline to April 14, 2006. So if you're kinda sorta sitt'n on the fence about whether to jump in or not... just go for it!
Asa provides all the details below.

Chow!
Sheila
(For an update on the behind the scenes contest activity, check out the FirefoxFlicks Backstage blog.

Final Weeks

As we've come into the final weeks of the contest, interest in the Firefox Flicks is growing at a dramatic clip. As one measure of that interest, we've seen more emails to the ad-support list in the last ten days than in the entire previous month.

From a lot of the feedback we�re getting, it sounds like our outreach to potential contestants has just now started to pay dividends. With this late surge in interest, we�ve decided to extend the submission deadline by two weeks to afford a bit more time to some of the people just now getting started. The new closing date for the contest will be April 14, one month from today.

We haven�t been through all of the submissions we�ve received so far to see if they meet the contest criteria and we�ve only received full-sized media from a handful of those entrants but we�re definitely starting to see the entries come in, averaging 2 to 3 per day now.

We�re hard at work getting set up to be able to start sharing the submissions with you all so stay tuned to the Backstage blog for updates.

Oh, and if you�ve already uploaded your video and not sent us the full sized media, hard copy on CD or DVD, please do so as soon as you can. The address to mail us is:

Mozilla Foundation
c/o Firefox Flicks
1981 Landings Drive
Building K
Mountain View, CA 94043-0801
USA