https://z.cash/blog/announcing-miner-contest.html

Zcash is a new crypto currency that is due to start its mainnet on the 28th of October. While development and security audits continue, few resources are being spared for optimised mining and pool-mining software - although there has been some progress on the latter.

For what it's worth, I figured I'd mention this here as well... Just in case some of the programmers like money. ;)