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Are you just collecting gist submissions, or are you planning to provide some discussion infrastructure? If it's the latter, perhaps make it more open-ended so it can be used by everyone for reviews?

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On my team, when we are sketching out new infastructure, we'll fork each other's gists, which while good, could probably be more elegant since the fork experience isn't as powerful in Gists as it is in Github compare view. Perhaps this is the beginning to a cool project for that. Would rather have a ping pong game though.

The site says there will only be 5 "matches", so agreed: if the trial goes well you guys should consider expanding on this format.

The plan is to collect the short gists and ask David to respond to the 5 best of them - he already agreed to do so. Once he responds we will publish the gists on the main page. There will be straight comparison of the code (left side the screen has the original gist and the right side has Davids version of the solution. You will be able to vote your preferred version, and comment underneath (with disqus.com)

Would that work as a basic infrastructure for discussion? Otherwise - how would you see it?

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