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Codegeist 2007 is closed.

You can find the results here: JIRA Entries 2007, Confluence Entries 2007, Bamboo Entries 2007, Crowd Entries 2007.

That's right, people. Once again, it's time to show us your stuff. We're announcing Atlassian Codegeist 2007: our second annual plugin competition.

In the last year, Atlassian has grown, and so our plugin competition is growing, too. We now have four products at Atlassian, and we're going to split Codegeist into four categories: one for each product.

We're giving away fabulous cash and prizes to the person or team who comes up with the coolest, most useful, most elegant plugin for each of Atlassian's products: JIRA, the professional issue tracker and Confluence, the enterprise wiki, Bamboo, our continous integration server, or Crowd, our indentity management solution.

As with anything in life, there are rules. These are yours.

The Competition

What
  • Your contest submission will be a plugin for JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo or Crowd (or several plugins working together, across products) or a client or integration that works with one of those products.
  • All entries must be contributed under the BSD license per our Terms and Conditions.
  • You may not modify of 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 already been posted in either of the Plugin Libraries (JIRA, Confluence). We're after new stuff, people. 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 11:59pm, May 13, 2007 (UTC/GMT +11).

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.

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 four categories: one for each of our products. Each category offers a top prize, worth $4000 USD, and a runner-up worth $1000 USD. 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 Criteria 2007 page for all the details.

What's in this for Atlassian?

  1. New plugins make our products more capable, which helps us sell more licenses. (Gotta move the units.)
  2. 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.)
  3. 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.
  4. We're damned excited to see what you, our users, build!

Sponsors

Our sincere thanks to JetBrains, The ServerSide, Cenqua, 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.