The Contest Committee is responsible for selecting the teams and for nominating the best solution on each platform.

Members of the contest committee are the organizers and one representative of each platform, namely

• Lutz Prechelt (organizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Chairman)
• Matthias Berhorst (Java representative, Accenture)
• Alvar Freude (Perl representative, German Perl Workshop)
• Jürgen Langner (PHP representative, Zend)
• Eduard Heilmayr (organizer, OpenSource Meets Business conference)
• Jürgen Seeger (organizer, 'iX magazine)
• Richard Seibt (organizer, LBCN)

The contest committee has two tasks:

1. Before the contest: Deciding which teams will be allowed into the contest if there are more than three requests for participation for any one platform.
   • To do this, the members will review the short, 3-page requests for admittance submitted by each team and try to identify the most competent teams.
   • The platform representatives can vote only with respect to their own platform's teams.
2. After the evaluation: Deciding which team deserves the award for the best solution on their respective platform.
   • The evaluation itself will be performed by a scientific team at Freie Universität Berlin.
   • The evaluation results will be laid out and discussed in a detailed report.
   • The Contest Committee will interpret the results, weigh the pros and cons of each solution, and nominate one of the three solutions on each platform as the best one on this platform.
   • There will be no overall contest winner. Here's why: the purpose of the contest is obtaining neutral information about the pros and cons of each platform. The relative weight of these pros and cons is strongly project-dependent. Electing the one best contest solution would be mis-interpreted by many as nominating the one best platform. That would be nonsense and we hence want to avoid it.