The Opening Ceremony for The First Raspberry Pilympiad!

[Jim Manley]

In the spirit of the quadrennial celebration of human strength, agility, endurance, and all that other stuff, as well as the ancient Greek heritage from which the Raspberry Pi draws at least its surname, I hereby declare the First Raspberry Pilympiad open to the world!

OK, who was supposed to organize this thing? Where are the endless lines/queues for entering venues, obtaining transportation, acquiring food, arranging for the handling of waste products, etc., etc.,etc., never mind actual competitive events for wich various medals made of differing metals can be awarded?

I'm only being half-facetious - I think we may have missed a "golden" opportunity to run our own Raspberry Pilympiad in parallel to the minor traffic annoyance currently strangling Jolly Olde London Towne. However, it's not too late, we still have a few hours to steal the limelight from the multi-billion Dollar/Pound/Euro extravaganza that the IOC has conveniently arranged for us to emulate.

What Pilympiad challenges can we hastily pose for our young mathletes and scientechs to overcome? I'm sure Pythagoras and his fermented-grape drinking buddies left something interesting for them to ponder and pounce upon programmatically. Let the games begin ... as soon as we figure out what they are and what rules apply! Hey, there are worse things we could spend the next two weeks doing, like watching Simonized Car Washing and similarly-ridiculous "camp"etitions on 4,732 cable, satellite, and Internet video channels!

Perhaps programming a rousing game of 3-D virtual "goodminton", anyone?

[Jim Manley]

And yes, for the curious, I did consider calling it the OlymPiad, but, I get the distinct feeling that the IOC wouldn't wait a nanosecond to send a cease-and-desist order, five square, colored "rings", or not! I do heartily admire those who are selling "Olimpycs" swag, replete with the square, colored "rings"!

[AndrewS]

OK, who was supposed to organize this thing? Where are the endless lines/queues for entering venues, obtaining transportation, acquiring food, arranging for the handling of waste products, etc., etc.,etc., never mind actual competitive events for wich various medals made of differing metals can be awarded?

Well, with your recent loss at your RaspJam, we've already had our own matching "security fiasco"

What Pilympiad challenges can we hastily pose for our young mathletes and scientechs to overcome? I'm sure Pythagoras and his fermented-grape drinking buddies left something interesting for them to ponder and pounce upon programmatically. Let the games begin ... as soon as we figure out what they are and what rules apply!

http://www.projecteuler.net
And of course there's still http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1531 and http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1477

[jonv]

Was great to see Tim B-L and the NeXT cube at last nights Olympic opening ceremony.
Eben and a RaspberryPi for the closing ceremony?

[itsonlyme]

I missed the opening ceremony and have just watched all 3hr 50mn of it at about 3200kbps through my Raspberry using Rasbian, Tomaz's deb, and XBMC iPlayer plugin.

Not a problem, worked perfectly.

Well done all parties.

Malcolm

[Jim Manley]

Was great to see Tim B-L and the NeXT cube at last nights Olympic opening ceremony.
Eben and a RaspberryPi for the closing ceremony?

That would be a coup for the Foundation! Perhaps they can get Rowan Atkinson to play the monotonic synthesizer lead-in to the "Chariots of Fire" theme on a Pi running a music synthesis program (which reminds me, I need to port JSyn to the Pi and see if my M-Audio USB/MIDI keyboard is recognized by the Pi).