Well, this is an exciting moment…last Wednesday was the Early Birds submissions deadline of our Developer Challenge and so far we got 18 submissions! The reason I'm saying "so far" is that even though we passed the first milestone, people can still submit their concepts and final entries until April 02, 2008; click here to enter the contest and get a chance to win the $10,000 grand prize. By the way, if you have an idea but you're not sure how good it is or what the chances for a win are; we're more than happy to advise you, so feel free to contact us.
- Not familiar with OpenSpaces Developer Challenge? => below is a brief explanation and links to give you some context.
- Already know all about the contest? => jump directly to the Submissions Overview section.
What is the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge and what do contestants get out of it?
An OpenSpaces.org initiative inviting developers to write a killer app over GigaSpaces XAP or a cool plug-in/extension to OpenSpaces (XAP's open source development framework). The contest allows contestants to:
- win prizes – contest provides $25,000 in awards
- gain global recognition for your killer application/plugin/extension
- present your application/plugin/extension to GigaSpaces partner network
What is the Early Birds Draw?
All Concept submissions (18) that were submitted by February 13, 2008 entered a draw for a scholarship prize in the value of $1000. 10 scholarships were available and the winning contestants are listed below.
- Winners of the contest (all 3 places) are eligible for the scholarship IN ADDITION to their prize.
- Submissions of Concepts and Final Entries are still accepted until April 02, 2008, however will naturally only compete for the final 3 prizes (i.e. not be entitled to the early birds prize).
More information about the contest is available at OpenSpaces.org and Concepts/Final Entries can be submitted here.
Submissions Overview
Below is a list of all submitted Concepts so far, where those contestants marked with a green star are the winners of our Early Birds Draw. All projects submitted to the contest are hosted at OpenSpaces.org, however not all project homepages have been setup by their captains. If a project has been setup, you can click the 'yes' link on the right to visit the actual project page. For any project, clicking the project name on the left takes you to submission details. To see how projects are progressing and when their homepages become available, visit our projects list or the relevant project forum at OpenSpaces.org.
| Submission Name & Details | Description | Captain | Project Set-up? |
| Convergence | An application aimed at integrating Computational Grids with In-Memory Data Grids (IMDG) | Kirill Uvaev | Yes |
| Distributed iBatis Spaces | A space-based iBatis data mapper. | Yehuda Hofri  |
Not yet |
| DomainProxy | An extension enabling rich domain models with domain relationships to be transparently used with OpenSpaces. | Jason Carreira |
Yes |
| Examples of Dynamic Scripting with Groovy | Several examples of dynamic scripting with groovy to demonstrate various techniques of using groovy within the GigaSpaces XAP. | Ed Crandell |
Not yet |
| GigaSpaces BPEL Engine | An engine for executing BPEL (business process execution language) standard workflows. | Mihai Lucian | Yes |
| Gigapult | A JRuby-based domain-specific language designed to specify all aspects of grid configurations in an intuitive and readable way. | Kirill Ishanov | Yes |
| GoDo – Goods Donation System | A distributed application that connects people who wish to donate with those interested to receive this donation. | Leonardo Goncalves |
Not yet |
| IDEA Plugin | IntelliJ IDEA plugin for simplifying OpenSpaces application development, and rapidly develop OpenSpaces application in IDEA. | Steve Zo |
Not yet |
| Java Grid Business Rules | Isolate business validation with the best supporting format, with or without the use of RETE algorithm in XPath language. | Luis Arce | Not yet |
| Maven 2 Openspaces Tools | Maven plugin allowing GigaSpaces application developers to easily build, assemble, and deploy OpenSpaces application. | Jin Kim |
Yes |
| OpenSpaces Binary Calculator | An application taking an experimental approach for capacity measurement. | Victor Samoylov |
Not yet |
| OpenSpaces Maven Artifacts Creator | A tool for creating Maven2 artifacts with proper dependencies. | Kirill Uvaev | Yes |
| OpenSpaces Project Templates (OPT) | Set of the templates allowing to create OpenSpaces projects structure in seconds. | Victor Samoylov | Not yet |
| PackRat | A library that will help to increase the space capacity by packing the Entities. | Alexander Kuznetsov |
Yes |
| Red5 Edge | An application enhancing Red5, making it more scalable and improving its streaming performance using OpenSpaces | Steve Zo | Not yet |
| SpaceSF | Space-based filesystem (based on FUSE and its Java bindings). | Kirill Uvaev | Yes |
| Tigris | An extension to GigaSpaces Testing Grid, enabling it to run on standard development environments | Igor Goldenberg |
Not yet |
| Rule Engine Compute Grid | A plugin for rule engines, such that a Business rule engine can use JavaSpaces as the working memory for the rule engine. | Peter Lin |
Not Yet |
Thanks again for the contribution and good luck to all contestants!
We're looking forward to seeing the progress of their projects and I hope that soon you'll be able to get to know the contestants and hear from them about their experiences with this contest via our podcast series 
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