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That's right, people. Once again, it's time to show us your chops. We're happy to announce Atlassian Codegeist 2008: our third annual plugin competition. In the last year, Atlassian has grown, and so our plugin competition is growing, too. With the acquisition of Cenqua we've added three new products to our toolkit and so we're expanded the contest to cover two of them: Fisheye and Crucible. We're giving away fabulous cash and prizes to the person or team who comes up with the coolest, most useful, most elegant plugin or extension for each of Atlassian's products:
(Clover is not included in the contest this year, as it's not a web-app and doesn't contain our plugin architecture.) |
As with anything in life, there are rules. These are yours.
What
- Your contest submission will be a plugin for JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Crowd, Fisheye, or Crucible or an extension, client or integration that works with those products.
- You may submit several plugins or extension working together, across products. That would be extra impressive.
- All entries must be contributed under the BSD license, per our Terms and Conditions.
- You may not modify the product source code. (You are, however, welcome to read, copy, extend and override the product source code under the regular terms of your license.)
- You're not allowed to submit anything that has been posted in the Plugin Libraries prior to the close of Codegeist II, on May 14th 2007. However, if you would like to extend or enhance an existing plugin, then go for it. But understand that you will be judged only on the additions you've made.
- If you're stuck for a good idea, check out the Plugin Wishlist page, which has a load of suggestions for plugins that someone, somewhere thought would be interesting and useful. (There is no guarantee that these ideas actually are interesting or useful, but they may be worth a shot.)
When
Plugins must be submitted no later than 11:00am, May 9th, 2008 (UTC/GMT -10).
Who
Teams may include up to but no more than three people. (See official rules for eligibility.) We encourage you to find collaborators from the Atlassian developer community. You might also try the developer forums if you're looking for team members.
How Often
Enter as often as you like. Individuals may enter as members of more than one team.
Prizes
This year, we've divided Codegeist into six categories: one for each of our products. Each category offers a top prize, worth $5,000. With each prize you'll also receive selection of other goodies from some of Atlassian's favourite Java companies around the world.
See the Prizes page for all the details.
Judging
All entries will be judged by the Atlassian Dev team, based on the following four criteria: Usefulness, Creativity & Elegance, Completeness, and Code Quality and Documentation.
See the Judging page for all the details.
What's in this for Atlassian?
- New plugins make our products more capable, which helps us sell more licenses. (Gotta move the units.)
- We want more people to learn how to develop plugins. Once they try it, we hope they'll think it's fun and keep doing it. (Leading to #1.)
- We want to learn how we can make writing plugins smoother and easier. If you run into any frustrations or questions while you're creating your masterpiece, let us know and we'll make it better.
- We're damned excited to see what you, our users, build!
Sponsors
Our sincere thanks to JetBrains, The ServerSide, No Fluff, Just Stuff, EJ TEchnologies, and YourKit. You guys rock - not just for donating some cool prizes, we just simply wouldn't be able to build the software we do without you.
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