The Wikipedia Code Challenge is live.

And I’m beat.  🙂

In addition to working with the nice folks at Eucalyptus, I’ve also been working with the nice folks at the Wikimedia Foundation to launch the October 2011 Coding Challenge.  We’ve been working through the various aspects: logistics, the challenge areas themselves, and of course legal.

We launched about 10 minutes ago, and we have 10 signups for the challenge, and we’ve received 2 emails from people with questions.  That means we can expect a run rate of… yeah, I’m not gonna do that math.

That’s the power of putting a banner ad on a site that gets 10 million hits a day.

So check it out.  And if you want to write some code to help Wikipedia out (and some of the challenges are pretty fun and pretty cool), feel free to sign right up.

The contest is open until November 7th at 23:59 UTC.  Then the judging begins.  I suspect it’s going to be a very long few weeks — but it’s been an awesome ride so far.