Hello, I am fairly new to RoR. I heard about a contest that the community had awhile back where developer teams were given 24 hours to write an web application. I recently participated in a photo contest that was of similar nature, the contest allowed you only 24 hours to take edit and submit your finished product. The catch was that a theme was announced at the start time for the contest. So at 5pm everyone logged on to apples website for the theme of the contest.
I really think it would be fun and challenging to create a contest like the one apple held, but for rails developers. You could take a simple topic like an e-commerce website for a coffee shop and push everyone in one direction but receive many different results.
I don't know if this is the best place to send this idea but I'm hoping someone will see it and know where to go with it. If its a bad idea just forget it, but if someone is willing to help get the ball rolling I would really like to be a part of this.
-Chris