Yes, sorry I'm responsible for that abomination of a "starter-package starter". Actually, I could blame Neil for the idea but I wont. Two of my students and I took the Common Lisp starter package and translated that, with a few changes that brought it back closer to the ants.py approach. The last bit is to set up a 'make' that creates an executable. I have the impression that that would be necessary to get approval from the organizers. I haven't had time do that or many of the other things I would like with this. If anybody wants to submit the enhancements for the executable, we could move forward with getting the starter package included on the official list. (BTW, it currently does work running locally.) Cheers, --Wayne Iba