Jivespace Community Blog

Clearspace Plugin Contest Winners!

dawn — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:56:17 GMT

We have selected the winners for our first Clearspace plugin contest based on usefulness, completeness, creativity / elegance, and code quality.

(Drum Roll)

First Place $5000: JiraIssues Macro Plugin with Flex by timcolson - bonus points for using Flex and targeting developer audiences!
Second Place $2500: Google Maps plugin by Jay Allen - very cool way to get a feel for community member locations!
Third Place $1500: Translations Macro by Lokkju - nice way to support international community members!
Honorable Mention: Flickr Slideshow macro by Beans0063 - cool way to embed Flickr slide shows!

We will be contacting each of the winners shortly to work out all of the details!

Only ONE WEEK left to enter the Clearspace Plugin Contest!

dawn — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:31:07 GMT

I wanted to remind everyone that you have only one week left to enter our Clearspace plugin contest and win cash, iPhone, t-shirts, free licenses and more!

All you have to do is submit an awesome plugin (fine print) for Clearspace by October 25th.

What can you win?

iPhone
Cash prizes up to $5000
Free 25 user license of Clearspace
Jivespace T-shirt

You can learn more about the judging / submission process and some additional prizes on Jivespace.

Need a Clearspace Plugin Idea to Enter the Contest?

dawn — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:04:11 GMT

Want to win free licenses, t-shirts, cash or an iPhone, but don't know where to start?

If you need an idea for a plugin, you might want to visit the plugin wishlist on Jivespace. We have several plugin ideas from people who want a specific piece of functionality, but who do not have the expertise or spare time to write a plugin.

If you have an idea, but have never written a Clearspace plugin, our documentation page might be a good place to start. We have a Clearspace Developer kit, tutorials, documentation, Javadocs, and more to help you get started!

As always, you can also ask questions in our community to get help from your peers or the experts at Jive Software!

Jivespace Launch Promotions: Free Licenses, T-shirts, and iPhones!!

dawn — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:52:00 GMT

We already announced our Open Source Plugin Contest here in Jivespace, but we wanted to announce a few more Jivespace Launch promotions!

First plugin gets you a FREE 25 user license!

You can enter the Open Source Plugin contest AND get a free 25 user license of Clearspace
Send an email to developer-relations@jivesoftware.com to claim your free license
Mention the 25 user license in the subject line and include a link to your plugin

Free t-shirt with every sign up!

New members will receive a cool Jivespace t-shirt
We will also be sending the t-shirts out to those of you who have been actively participating in the beta program

Best plugin, as voted by the community, wins an iPhone!

Available only in countries where iPhones are sold
A community poll will be conducted to determine the winner at the end of the plugin contest
This is in addition to any prizes awarded by Jive Software for the plugin contest

All promotions end on October 25, 2007.

Win Cash - Enter Our Plugin Contest!

dawn — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:01:00 GMT

Jive is holding its first plugin contest. This is a nationwide contest based on the development of open source plugins for Clearspace. We are looking for plugins released under the Apache 2.0 open source license that are extremely user friendly, solve business problems, and highlight Clearspace's collaboration muscles.

What you can win:

Money

First prize wins you $5,000
Second place wins you $2,500
Third place wins you $1,500
Fourth and fifth place will also receive a commemorative award

Of course you can win cash, but better than that you can be recognized by your peers as a top-notch developer, and your plugin will be available in Jive's Developer Community (dev.jivesoftware.com) for the entire world to download and use.
All contestants will receive a super cool Jivespace Developer Community t-shirt.

What you get from Jive in order to create your plugin:

Five user license of Clearspace, available here

Important dates:

Contest will BEGIN on July 25, 2007 at 8:00 AM PST
Contest will END at October 25, 2007 at 11:59 PM PST
Winners will be announced by end of day on Friday, November 2, 2007

Judging Criteria:

Usefulness: Ideally, the plugin you develop should be good for something. The more people and organizations whom we think will find your plugin useful, the better we'll like it.
Completeness: Your plugin should attempt to solve a specific problem and you should solve that problem as completely as possible. Don't leave obvious holes in functionality.
Creativity and Elegance: thoughtful, well executed code is what we are looking for.
Code quality: Your code should be readable, self-evident, thoroughly commented, and easily-maintainable.

Submission Process:

Register for an account on Jivespace, our Developer Community, dev.jivesoftware.com
Add your plugin to the Plugin Subspace in our community and include the tag: Summer_2007_Plugin_Contest
Once your plugin is submitted to dev.jivesoftware.com, send the link and your complete contact details to Summer2007PluginContest@jivesoftware.com

You will also want to read the fine print and contest rules