Our young Edward has no access to the echo at the moment so he asked
me by e-mail to post this exciting news.  He was one of the winners!
This is the English translation.  I deleted the part of the message
that was in German which Edward told me said the same thing.
Message-ID: 
Winner of the Christmas Programming Contest 1996 - organised by the
GEOS Optimismus Crew Europe
Prize money: SFr2000.-
JURY:
> Helmar Rudolph:   zu GeoBasic:
GeoBasic - not quite ready for release, but a sensational progress
in programming for GEOS. GeoBasic makes it considerably easier to
develop applications as it allows you to interactively develop your
UI. Give Ed some time and I am sure he will revolutionise GEOS. This
program has the greatest potential of them all.
Thomas Haberland,Juergen Heinisch.Roland Feuz,Gerard Niefergold,Andreas
Peter, Lynn Montelauro,Gregory Hilker,Dirk Haase.Achim Finger.Hugo
Zaugg.Felix Gaertner
Wolfgang Bartnicki:     zu HomeBase:
The GEOS world should see more of these useful and easy-to-use
applications.
Participants:
John F. Howard   Home Base (wird ueber Breadbox vertrieben)
Cami Lee          Cami Lee's IDE, Clide Editer, GeoSource
Clemens Kochinke  DoodleMax, XOX Plus, XOX Pontius Z, XOX Pontius
Ed Geronimo Jr.          Mixer Control, Sound Player, GeoBasic
FunProg           MAZE
Falk Rehwagen   BitmapView
Gerd Boerrigter          MediaPlayer
Marcus Groeber   WebMagick
Jirka Kunze   MagicBoard
Joerg Polzfuss   GeoNoid + LevelEditor, Inquisitor
JHT-Team   WAV-Player
(JHT-Team = Falk Rehwagen, Marcus Groeber, Gerd Boerrigter, Dirk Lauseker)
And the winners of the contest are:
German Programmers:
1. Falk Rehwagen        BitmapView    Fr. 450.-
2. Marcus Groeber       WebMagick     Fr. 250.-
3. Gerd Boerrigter      MediaPlayer   Fr. 150.-
4. Joerg Polzfuss       GeoNoid       Fr. 100.-
5. Jirka Kunze          MagicBoard    Fr.  50.-
US Programmers:
1.    John F. Howard         Home Base      Fr. 450.-
2.    Ed Geronimo Jr         Geo Basic      Fr. 250.-
3.    Clemens Kochinke       Doodle Max     Fr. 150.-
4.    Cami Lee Collection
      IDE, Clide Editer, GeoSource          Fr. 100.-
5.    Ed Geronimo Jr         Mixer Control  Fr.  50.-
Congratulations to all the winners! The Crew is currently planning the
3rd annual GOCE meeting for 1997, and will most likely hold yet another
contest. We would like to thank all programmers for their work and
confidence in the GEOS environment.
Kind regards,
Werni
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