Hi everyone!

It was a while since I posted last update about CP-Algorithms. As a general reminder, it is a community project that started off in 2014 by RodionGork as a translation of e-maxx, a Russian go-to resource at the time by e-maxx for learning core competitive programming algorithms. Since then, CP-Algorithms grew quite a lot (which also prompted a rename from original project name e-maxx-eng) and includes a lot of new, original articles, and a lot of translated articles were enhanced and/or extended or even completely rewritten.

In this blog, I would like to share a bunch of updates about the site, to make sure it's still in the collective memory 😅

New maintainers

Since my last post, we have a few new maintainers in the project: kostka spike1236 and mhayter. Welcome on board, everyone!

Also, as a general reminder, we are always on the lookout for new maintainers!

Please reach out to us if you're interested, and let us know of any of your prior experience in technical writing, computer science and competitive programming. We will be happy to expand our team!

New articles

Over last year, we had the following new articles:

• Minimum Enclosing Circle
• Simulated annealing

We also have a few more in the works in the Pull Requests section.

Discord server

We have launched a Discord server (currently with ~500 members)! You are very welcome to join us here to stay updated about what's going on with the project. Also, please feel free to post any feedback or requests there, and generally have fun!

In particular, you are welcome to use the server for any of the following:

• New article suggestions;
• Finding co-authors to write an article;
• Questions about contributing;
• Questions about anything in existing articles;
• Minor mistakes you notice in our articles which you don't want to open an issue about;

Any constructive suggestions are welcome!

Donations

We have launched a donation campaign! CP-Algorithms is ad-free, and run by volunteers. By donating a small amount, you can help us grow and achieve our next goal of establishing monetary bounties for contributors writing new articles. As a thanks, you will be assigned an exclusive patron role in our Discord server, and, depending on the donation amount, a place on our website.

We use Open Source Collective as our fiscal host, so you may be sure that our handling of the donations is as transparent as possible, and they are used strictly to further our (non-profit) goals as a volunteer project.

Contributors call

A mandatory section asking you to help us out as a contributor 😊