InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024

Hi Developers,

We'd like to invite you to join our next contest dedicated to creating useful tools to make your fellow developers' lives easier: 

🏆 InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 🏆

Submit an application that helps to develop faster, contributes more qualitative code, and helps in testing, deployment, support, or monitoring of your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

Duration: September 9 - 29, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

The topic

💡  InterSystems IRIS developer tools 💡

In this contest, we expect 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++, where 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, IRIS for Health or IRIS Cloud SQL. The first two could be downloaded as host (Mac, Windows) versions from Evaluation site, or can be used in the 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. 
5. The README file to the application should be in English, contain the installation steps, and either the video demo or/and a description of how the application works.
6. No more than 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 the winners:

🥇 1st place - $5,000 

🥈 2nd place - $3,000 

🥉 3rd place - $1,500

🏅 4th place - $750

🏅 5th place - $500

🌟 6-10th places - $100

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

🥇 1st place - $1000 

🥈 2nd place - $750 

🥉 3rd place - $500

🏅 4th place - $300

🏅 5th place - $200

If several participants score the same amount of votes, they all are considered winners, and the money prize is shared among the winners. 

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:

• September 9, 2024 (00:00 EST): Contest begins.
• September 22, 2024 (23:59 EST): Deadline for submissions.

✅ Voting period:

• September 23, 2024 (00:00 EST): Voting begins.
• September 29, 2024 (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 and Python:

• InterSystems Embedded Python in glance
• InterSystems IRIS Interoperability with Embedded Python
• Feedback : Using embedded python daily for more than 2 years
• Embedded Python Template

✓ For beginners with IRIS and ObjectScript:

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

✓ For beginners with ObjectScript Package Manager (ZPM):

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

✓ How to submit your app to the contest:

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

Need Help?

Join the contest channel on InterSystems' Discord server or talk with us in the comments section of this post. 

We can't wait to see your projects! Good luck 👍

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