Fun with technology is what techies at Aztec Software want to have.
Azealots.com is thus born, promising lots of such fun, and perhaps more.
Azealots.com is a techies-for-techies forum, now hoping to bring eight lakh
techies from across the country onto a common platform. It all started at Aztec
Software in Bangalore, when its engineering community discovered that fun
competitions like quizzes, puzzles, and code manias are great bonding agents.
Ideas on taking the fun model to a larger software community looked real after
another discovery: just building great applications and products all year long
gets monotonous for everybody.
Within
three weeks of its launch, the online community now boasts of more than 15,000
members. Membership is open to techies at all levels. The first of its events
called 'Back to Basics' started on April 18. It is about solving problems
faced in everyday life-but apolitically. One can only use coding skills in any
one of the four languages (C, C++, C#, or Java), or SQL (where applicable), and
provide a code-based solution to the problems posed. There will be one problem
posed every week for the next 10 weeks. One gets points for his solution and
every week there are some good and handsome grand prizes as well-a Bose home
theatre system, a Dell Laptop or an iPod. The prizes, at the moment, are being
sponsored by Aztec Software.