We just won a software prize

[Daniel Lee]

We just won a prize from the OSS World Challenge 2012 (ossaward.org). It comes with a $5000 prize and a trip to Korea for one of the team members.

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From: Flora Kang <ossa...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:19 AM
Subject: Dear Participants of OSS World Challenge 2012
To: Flora Kang <ossa...@gmail.com>

 

 

Grade
Grand Prize		1		MKE Minister’s Prize		$8,000 USD
OMPL- USA
Gold Prize		1		NIPA President’s Prize		$5,000 USD
Stan – USA
Silver Prize		2		KOSSA President’s Prize		$3,000 USD
	DDT- Switzerland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are very sorry for the delay.

Prize winners will be invited to the awards ceremony on November 27. (one person per team)

We’ll send participation certificates to all entrants who submitted the final.

Should the mailing address has been changed, please let us know.

We’ll refer to the list of team members.

Please check if there is some spelling errors such as names or addresses.

Since OSS World Challenge is an annual contest, we hope all of you can participate in it next year.

We are planning to expand the prize scale.

We really hope you had a great experience through the contest.

Hopefully see you again next year.

 

Best regards,

Organizers of OSS World Challenge 2011

 

[Daniel Lee]

Does anyone want to go to Korea? It's a little short notice -- Nov
26-28. If no one else wants to go, I'll happily volunteer.




Daniel

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From: Flora Kang <ossa...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:34 AM
Subject: Congratulations!!
To: Flora Kang <ossa...@gmail.com>


Dear the winners of OSS World Challenge 2012,


We'd like to invite one of your team members to Korea OSS Day.

Korea OSS Day has various events including the awards ceremony.

Winners will stay in a hotel for two nights and three days (November
26th ~ 28th).

We don’t have much time, so please let me know who might be able to
attend the awards ceremony.

We will then arrange the hotel and flight as well.

If no one from your team can attend the ceremony, we'll wire the prize
money directly.

Thank you

Flora

[Matt Hoffman]

That's awesome!

A free trip to Korea sounds great, but it's in the middle of my
Thanksgiving travel and other Stan contributors (e.g. Daniel) deserve
it more anyway.

Matt

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[Marcus Brubaker]

Awesome!  Congratulations to everyone involved!

Cheers,

Marcus

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[Bob Carpenter]

Nice! Thanks for entering us, Daniel.

I can't make it to Korea -- I'll be at Brown at
the Evaluating MCMC workshop.

- Bob

On 10/29/12 4:02 PM, Daniel Lee wrote:
> We just won a prize from the OSS World Challenge 2012 (ossaward.org <http://ossaward.org>). It comes with a $5000 prize

[Michael Betancourt]

That's awesome -- congrats to everyone. Dan, I hope you can give an acceptance speech without breaking into tears.

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[Andrew Gelman]

What I like is that they give each prize a name, so we can say we won the "gold prize" rather than having to say "second prize."

On Oct 29, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Daniel Lee wrote:

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[Jiqiang Guo]

Cool.  Congrats. 

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