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Remote participation (audience) #17

Open roseregina opened 5 years ago

roseregina commented 5 years ago

There has been some discussion about how people can be involved in making this happen without being at IFF, generally looking at working on creating puzzles, evaluating responses, doing outreach, and proving assistance to participants. This is something that Seamus and I have thought would be exceptionally helpful.

Just as there are people who are interested in supporting the CTF remotely, are there ways that we can build this so that people who are able to attend IFF for whatever reason- person, financial, visa, or elsewise- would be able to participate?

Maybe there will be stuff that we can't figure out for remote participants, but I think it would be solid to open up even partial participation.

blackswanburst commented 5 years ago

This is common enough in CTF, and is just a function of distributing the challenges over a website, and receiving solutions.

The thing it might conflict with is our idea of collaborative challenges. How do you get strangers to collaborate over the internet (lol, soup anon;).

seamustuohy commented 5 years ago

If we decide to have puzzles that require judging and human interaction during the CTF I would vote no on this from a resources perspective. If the judges get overwhelmed then the quality of the CTF will go down for everyone. This is our first year so I want to make sure it is seen as a success. Even if some folks are excluded.

If we decide to move towards a much more automated approach (i.e. the site mentioned in issue #20 and puzzles that are only evaluated if they are correct) then I can see this working.