#IRIS contest

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IRIS Vector Search usage -3
• Embedded Python usage -3
• WSGI Web Apps - 2
• InterSystems Interoperability - 3
• InterSystems IRIS BI - 3
• VSCode Plugin - 3
• FHIR Tools - 3
• Docker container usage -2 
• ZPM Package Deployment - 2
• Online Demo -2 
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• Code Quality pass - 1
• Article on Developer Community - 2
• The second article on Developer Community - 1
• Video on YouTube - 3
• YouTube Short - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite you all to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024!

During the webinar, you will discover the exciting challenges and opportunities that await IRIS enthusiasts in this contest. We'll discuss the topics we expect from participants and show you how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 10 – 12:30 pm EDT | 6:30 pm CEST  

Hi Community!

We hope you enjoyed our Developer Community AI sweepstakes and learned something new while interacting with our DC AI. Now, it's time to announce the winner!

Hello developers!

Last year, for the first time, we held the Technical Article Contest on Japan's InterSystems Developer Community, and 📣 we are holding it again this year!📣

The topics are the same as last year, and you can submit any content related to InterSystems IRIS／InterSystems IRIS for Health.

🖋 InterSystems Japan Technical Article Contest – 2024: Articles related to IRIS 🖋

🎁 Participation prize：Everyone who submits a post will receive our👚Developer Community’s original T-shirt👕!！

🏆 Special Prize：Authors of three selected works will receive special prizes.

Updated on 30/8: Prize information added!Please check it out!👇

Entering the contest is easy!During the period from Monday,September 2to Friday, October 18, 2024）you are welcome to post an article related to IRIS on the developer community, (for details, please refer to the "Entry Requirements""Bonus Points" below).

Eligibility

Everyone is welcome to participate （(all you need to do is: create an account with the InterSystems Developer Community).

Contest schedule

📝 Application period

• Monday, September 2, 2024, 0:0:0: Start date for application
• Friday, October 18, 2024, 23:59:59: Closing date for application

✅ Voting period

• Monday, September 2, 2024, 0:0:0 : Start date for voting
• Thursday, 31 October 2024, 23:59:59: Closing date for voting

* Developer community members vote by clicking 'Like!👍'on published articles.
*The sooner you post an article, the longer it will take to collect ‘Likes!👍'.

Submission Requirements

❗️ You can automatically enter the contest with articles written during the contest period if they meet the following requirements.

• Please submit your articles related to InterSystems IRIS or InterSystems IRIS for Health, inJapanese language.
• Please submit articles of 800 characters or more. (Please check the character count displayed in the bottom right hand corner of the editor before submitting)
• When posting an article, please be sure to set the ‘Contest’ tag.(If you forget to do this, the article posted by you will not be recognised as a contest article)
• Articles by different authors on the same or similar topics are also eligible.
• You can submit multiple articles (for details, please refer to 'Bonus Points'
• Please note that articles that have been translated and published in communities in other countries are not eligible for this contest.
• Please note that the content of your submission will be reviewed by the community team.  

The method for submitting articles and for using the editor is unchanged from last year. For details, please refer to 👉'How to submit articles: 1st Technical Writing Contest’

Prize information🎁

Winners will be chosen based on the total number of votes cast by the judges and the number of ‘likes’ given by community members. The first, second and third place winners will be able to choose one prize from those listed for their respective places (First-place winners can choose one of the prizes listed for first to third places, second-place winners can choose one of the prizes listed for second to third places).

Prizes will be selected at the award ceremony.

🥇 First place

• Apple Watch SE (2nd generation, 2023)
• SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 External 2TB
• Apple AirPods (3rd generation)

🥈 Second place

• SodaStream Genesis Deluxe v2 starter kit
• Moonka 10.1-inch wifi Digital Photo Frame, Motion Sensor, 1280 x 800 high resolution touch panel, built-in 32GB storage
• Moonmoon Totnoelite light alarm clock (Totnoelite plain)

🥉 Third place 

• [Heat&Pressure]Hot eye mask
• Starbucks gift card ( ¥5,000)
• Panasonic Scalp Aesthetics EH-HM7A-S Sebum Cleaning Type Silver

Selection process

The following total scores will be used to determine the winners.

• Number of ‘likes’ received from developer community members (1 like = 1 point)
• Bonus points (see details below)
• Judges' votes (first place: 5 points, second place: 3 points, third place: 2 points)
  • The judges will be selected by the community team.

About the award ceremony

(Added 18 Sep 2024) This year's contest award ceremony will be held during the Developer Community Meetup in Tokyo on Friday, November 8!

For more information on the meetup, please refer to this article👉"InterSystems Japan Developer Community Meetup in Tokyo"

Please consider attending the meetup!

Bonus points

🎯 Earn bonus points for submitting articles that meet the following criteria:

Articles related to Embedded Python: 4 points

Any content related to Embedded Python is eligible. For example, please share your experiences, impressions and ideas.

Reference article:#Embedded Python

Articles related to Generative AI: 4 points

Any content related to Generative AI using InterSystems IRIS InterSystems IRIS for Health is eligible. Please share examples of using Generative AI in combination with IRIS, and your impressions.

Reference article (in English):#Generative AI

Translated article about the work awarded first place in the Python Contest 2024: Text to IRIS SQL with LangChain: Introduction to the Python Programming Contest Winning Work!

Articles related to FHIR: 3 points.

Any content related to FHIR is eligible. For example, please share your impressions of trying out the IRIS for Health FHIR repository, challenges you have faced, or thoughts, code examples and innovations you have made when trying out the Facade for a specific resource.

Reference article:#FHIR 

Articles containing code descriptions: 2 points.

Two points are awarded for including a tried and tested code example in the article.

Publishing working code samples to a Git repository: 5 points

You can get 5 points by publishing code samples to your own Git repository and including the URL of the repository in your article. 

Screenshots or diagrams related to the article content: 1 point

You can earn 1 point for each article containing a screenshot or diagram to supplement the article when testing the operation.

Contest participants who write questions in response to other participants‘ articles: 1 point per article

Contest participants who write questions in response to other participants’ articles will earn 1 point per article.

Contest participants who write answers to questions posted in the community: 1 point for each answer

Contest participants who write answers to questions posted in the community will earn 1 point for each answer.

We will continue to post the latest information about the contest. 👀Don't miss it!

We look forward for your applications!

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the Python Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 9 applications 🔥 

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the Python Contest. It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, August 8, 12 pm EDT | 6 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our Python Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Contestansts!

Here are the results of bonuses gathered by applications in InterSystems Python Programming Contest 2024!

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite you to the next InterSystems online programming contest, which is focused on Python!

🏆 InterSystems Python Contest 🏆

Duration: July 15 - August 4, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

Hi Developers!

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Python Contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IRIS Vector Search usage - 3
• Python Pex Interoperability - 3
• Python in BPL - 2
• WSGI Web Apps - 2
• Python libs: sqlalchemy and dbt - 2
• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard and others - 3
• NoObjectScriptLine - 3
• Hugginface - 2
• Docker container usage - 2 
• ZPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• First Article on Developer Community - 2
• Second Article On DC - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 3
• YouTube Short - 1

See the details below.

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you all to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems Python Contest!

Discover the exciting challenges and opportunities that await Python enthusiasts in this contest. We'll discuss the topics we expect from participants and show you how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform. As a special treat, there will be a demo of the WSGI application in IRIS written on Embedded Python using venv. 

Date & Time: Monday, July 15 – 10 am EDT | 4 pm CEST  

Hi Community!

Our 💡 3rd InterSystems Ideas Contest has come to an end. As a result, there are 🔥 30 new ideas! They all focus on improving InterSystems IRIS and related products and services, highlighting tangible benefits for developers once the ideas are implemented.

And now we announce the winners...

Hello Community,

We're super excited to invite all our Developer Community members (both InterSystems employees and not) to participate in our next contest!

💡 The 3rd InterSystems Ideas Contest 💡

We're looking for your innovative ideas to enhance InterSystems IRIS and related products and services. We encourage suggestions based on real-life use cases, highlighting the tangible benefits your idea will bring to other users and how it will enhance developers' experiences with InterSystems technology.

📅 Duration: June 10 - July 7, 2024

🏆 Prizes for the best ideas!

🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift will be given to each author whose idea is accepted in the contest.

>> VOTE FOR THE BEST IDEAS HERE <<

Hello Community!

A new challenge has arrived for you: The Third InterSystems Technical Article writing contest in Spanish is here!

🏆 3rd Technical Articles Contest in Spanish 🏆

Description of the contest: Write an article in Spanish in the Developer Community, on any topic related to InterSystems technology.

Duration: from May 6 to June 2, 2024.

Prizes for all participants: Everyone who publishes an article in Spanish (In the Spanish Community) during the contest period will receive a prize.

Main prize: LEGO Ferrari Daytona SP3 / Magic Gringotts™ Bank - Collector's Edition.

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the Vector Search, GenAI and ML Contest. It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, May 23, 12 pm EDT | 6 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the Vector Search, GenAI and ML Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 15 applications 🔥 

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our Vector Search, GenAI and ML Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Developers!

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the Vector Search Programming Contest!

Hey Community,

We have more exciting news! The new InterSystems online programming contest dedicated to Generative AI, Vector Search and Machine Learning is starting very soon! 

🏆 InterSystems Vector Search, GenAI and ML Contest 🏆

Duration: April 22 - May 19, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the Vector Search, GenAI and ML Contest!

Discover the exciting challenges and opportunities that await GenAI and ML enthusiasts in this contest. We'll discuss the topics we expect from participants and show you how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform. There will also be a demo of InterSystems IRIS Vector Search that you can use in your projects.

Date & Time: Monday, April 22 – 12 pm EDT | 6 pm CEST  

Hi Developers!

Here're the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Vector Search, GenAI, and ML contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• Vector Search usage - 5
• IntegratedML usage - 3
• Embedded Python - 3
• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard, and others - 3
• Questionnaire - 2
• Docker container usage - 2 
• ZPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Vector Search, or Integrated ML, or Embedded Python - 2
• First Article on Developer Community - 2
• Second Article On DC - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 3
• Suggest a new idea - 1

See the details below.

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 12 applications 🔥 

Hi Community!

It's time to celebrate our 19 fellow members who took part in the latest Technical Article Contest: InterSystems IRIS Tutorials and wrote

🌟 21 AMAZING ARTICLES 🌟

Our judges mentioned that it was a very tough challenge to choose only three articles each because more deserved points. Despite it all, they persevered and now it's time to announce the winners!

Let's meet the winners and look at their articles:

Hi Community,

Here are the bonuses for the articles in the Technical Article Contest: InterSystems IRIS Tutorials:

Hi Community,

We have some exciting news! It's time for the next InterSystems technical article writing competition!

✍️ Technical Article Contest: InterSystems IRIS Tutorials ✍️

Write an article that can be considered a tutorial for InterSystems IRIS  programmers of any level: beginner / middle / senior from February 19th to March 17th. We've extended the submission deadline till the 24th of March!

🎁 Prizes for everyone: A special prize for each author participating in the competition!

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest – a great opportunity to have a chat with the InterSystems Experts team as well as our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, February 8, 12 pm EST | 6 pm CET

Hi Developers!

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 2024!

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Developers,

We have exciting news! The new InterSystems online programming contest dedicated to all things health-related will start very soon! 

🏆 InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 🏆

Duration: January 15 - February 4, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest!

Discover the exciting challenges and opportunities that await health enthusiasts in this contest. We'll talk about the topics we expect from participants and show you how to develop, build, and deploy applications on the InterSystems IRIS for health data platform.

Date & Time: Tuesday, January 16 – 9 am EST | 3 pm CET