Welcome to the IBM Hackathon at ZendCon 2014
Carl Osipov, IBM, @CloudsWithCarl
Joshua Solomin, Zend, @JSolomin
Ground Rules (1 of 2) Build an application to wow your
audience, the attendees of ZendCon 2014
Work individually or as a team of up to 3 people One prize per team
Use Zend Server 7 / PHP on Bluemix Zend and IBM people are around to help
Sample code is available, check your hackathon registration email
github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon
Think of your own application idea or do something with wearable and mobile application backends
API composition
Internet of Thing
Ground Rules (2 of 2)
Ensure that your application is accessible to anyone on the Internet via a URL
Tweet @IBMBluemix with your application URL and #zendcon to describe what you built
ZendCon attendees will be tweeting and retweeting about your applications
Hackathon starts at 8pm on Tuesday and ends at 4pm on Wednesday
We will contact you via email tomorrow after 6pm if you were selected to present
Use common sense: We reserve the right to ignore any project that we deem inappropriate
Bluemix PaaS Code the way you want. Deploy in seconds. Scale as
needed.
Reuse services like IBM Watson, MySQL, Twilio.
Start with a free trial. Experiment with a free tier for every service.
Zend Server 7 Fast PHP environment with extensions and libraries
preconfigured
Use Z-Ray to rapidly find problems while you code Execution time, database queries, functions, request
details, and more
Sample code github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon
IBM Watson for Travel, Cloudant (CouchDB) NoSQL, Internet of Things
MySQL
Sendgrid, Twilio
Tools at your disposal
Starting at 5pm on Wednesday, judges from Zend will monitor tweets mentioning @IBMBluemix and #zendcon to learn about your applications
Tweets that get the most retweets and favorites will be filtered out by the judges and the corresponding projects will be selected for the top 12
If your application is selected by the judges, we will contact at 6pm on Wednesday using the email you provided when you registered for the hackathon.
Top 12 Selection Process
If you receive an email notifying you that you were selected for the top 12, please be ready to present your app during a 5 minute lightning talk between 8 and 9:30pm on Wednesday
Our distinguished panel of handpicked judges will review the top 12 projects presented at the Wed event and choose the top 3 prize winners
Judges Matthew Weier O’Phinney Michelangelo van Dam
@DragonBe
Rob Allen
Judges Panel
Each winning team (or individual) will be awarded a Raspberry Pi dev kit on Thursdayduring the closing keynote
Prizes
THANK YOU
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