InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2025

Hi Developers,

We are happy to announce the new InterSystems online programming contest dedicated to creating useful tools to make your fellow developers' lives easier:

🏆 InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 🏆

Duration: July 14 - August 3, 2025

Prize pool: $12,000

 The topic

Develop any applications that improve developer experience with IRIS, help to develop faster, contribute more qualitative code, help to test, deploy, support, or monitor your solution with InterSystems IRIS.  

General Requirements:

1. An application or library must be fully functional. It should not be an import or a direct interface for an already existing library in another language (except for C++, there you really need to do a lot of work to create an interface for IRIS). It should not be a copy-paste of an existing application or library.
2. Accepted applications: new to Open Exchange apps or existing ones, but with a significant improvement. Our team will review all applications before approving them for the contest.
3. The application should work either on IRIS Community Edition or IRIS for Health Community Edition. Both could be downloaded as host (Mac, Windows) versions from Evaluation site, or can be used in a form of containers pulled from InterSystems Container Registry or Community Containers: intersystemsdc/iris-community:latest or intersystemsdc/irishealth-community:latest .  
4. The application should be Open Source and published on GitHub or GitLab.  
5. The README file to the application should be in English, contain the installation steps, and contain either the video demo or/and a description of how the application works.
6. Only 3 submissions from one developer are allowed.

NB. Our experts will have the final say in whether the application is approved for the contest or not based on the criteria of complexity and usefulness. Their decision is final and not subject to appeal.

Prizes

1. Experts Nomination - a specially selected jury will determine winners:

🥇 1st place - $5,000 

🥈 2nd place - $2,500 

🥉 3rd place - $1,000

🏅 4th place - $500

🏅 5th place - $300

🌟 6-10th places - $100

2. Community winners - applications that will receive the most votes in total:

🥇 1st place - $1,000 

🥈 2nd place - $600 

🥉 3rd place - $300

🏅 4th place - $200

🏅 5th place - $100

❗ If several participants score the same number of votes, they are all considered winners, and the prize money is shared among the winners.
❗ Cash prizes are awarded only to those who can verify their identity. If there are any doubts, organizers will reach out and request additional information about the participant(s).

Who can participate?

Any Developer Community member, except for InterSystems employees (ISC contractors allowed). Create an account!

Developers can team up to create a collaborative application. 2 to 5 developers are allowed in one team.

Do not forget to highlight your team members in the README of your application – DC user profiles.

Important Deadlines:

🛠 Application development and registration phase:

• July 14, 2025 (00:00 EST): Contest begins.
• July 27, 2025 (23:59 EST): Deadline for submissions.

✅ Voting period:

• July 28, 2025 (00:00 EST): Voting begins.
• August 3, 2025 (23:59 EST): Voting ends.

Note: Developers can improve their apps throughout the entire registration and voting period.

Helpful Resources:

✓ Example applications:

• webterminal - an emulation for IRIS terminal as a web application
• git-source-control - git tool to manage changes for shared dev environments and IRIS UI dev editors by @Timothy Leavitt 
• iris-rad-studio - RAD for UI 
• cmPurgeBackup - backup tool
• errors-global-analytics - errors visualization
• objectscript-openapi-definition - open API generator
• Test Coverage Tool - test coverage helper
• iris-bi-utils - a toolset for IRIS BI 
• and many more.

✓ Templates we suggest to start from:

• iris-dev-template
• Interoperability-python
• rest-api-contest-template
• native-api-contest-template
• iris-fhir-template
• iris-fullstack-template
• iris-interoperability-template
• iris-analytics-template  

✓ For beginners with IRIS:

• Build a Server-Side Application with InterSystems IRIS
• Learning Path for beginners

✓ For beginners with ObjectScript Package Manager (IPM):

• How to Build, Test and Publish IPM Package with REST Application for InterSystems IRIS
• Package First Development Approach with InterSystems IRIS and IPM

✓ How to submit your app to the contest:

• How to publish an application on Open Exchange 
• How to submit an application for the contest

Need Help?

Join the contest channel on InterSystems' Discord server or talk with us in the comment to this post. 

We're waiting for YOUR project – join our coding marathon to win! 

By participating in this contest, you agree to the competition terms laid out here. Please read them carefully before proceeding.