I want to revive Carl Mäsak's Coding Contest as a crowd-sourced contest.

The contest will be in four phases:

development of tasks

public contest, where you can solve the tasks

public commenting on solutions

grading and awarding of prizes

For the first phase, development of tasks, I am looking for volunteers who come up with coding tasks collaboratively. Sadly, these volunteers, including myself, will be excluded from participating in the second phase.

I am looking for tasks that ...

are well-worded

have a (private) implementation that shows it is solvable, preferably in under 500 lines of code

have a few public tests to help the participants, and a more tests tests that help the graders and commenters later on

This is non-trivial, so I'd like to have others to discuss things with, and to come up with some more tasks.

If you want to help with task creation, please send an email to moritz.lenz@gmail.com, stating your intentions to help, and your freenode IRC handle (optional).

There are other ways to help too:

You can pledge a prize (some ideas: Comma IDE subscription, books, Camelia plushies, Amazon vouchers)

You can help design a small website for the contest

You can help iron out the exact rules for the contest

... or any other way that I didn't think of :-)