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Red Hat EMEA Hackathon winners announced

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

By Manfred Bortenschlager, Agile Integration Business Development, EMEA

Back in September we launched the Red Hat EMEA Hackathon inviting developers to “ReBoot Customer Experience with Open Source.” Hundreds of developers from around the world participated, some as individuals with others as part of a team, helping to create some fantastic app ideas. The submissions were reviewed by an experienced panel of six judges - whom I should thank for all their hard work and words of wisdom.

Thank you!

Gert Jan van Halem, Chief Technology Officer at Devoteam
Markus Eisele, Developer Adoption Program Lead, Red Hat Germany
Markus Heimbach, Director of Engineering at Dynatrace
Jose Quaresma, DevOps practice Leader at Accenture
Antonio Valle Gutierrez, Global Head of BPM & BRMS Architecture, BBVA

You can find out more about our judges here.

In mid-December we announced the winners, and in reverse order here they are:

In third place was Victor CX, an auditory CUI for visually impaired or differently-abled users for building inclusive interfaces that access and manage an organization’s technology products and online services, which was developed by an individual contributor, Allister Beharry, who walks away with a cash prize of €3000.

In second place and winner of a €5000 cash prize was rhv2prometheus, an app which can build metrics from the ovirt-engine api from RHV and present them as prometheus format, then can be scraped from an openshift prometheus to integrate fully infrastructure monitoring, which was created in Spain by Xana Da Silva Mori, Michael Ramirez, Mario Parra de Miguel and Victor Parraga.

In first place was the ACE: Airline Customer Experience, a system developed to take the pain and waiting time out of app development at airlines where it can take up to nine months to make changes to systems that impact customer experience, often because they are monolithic mainframe applications. Phil Ogilvie, Andre McGuire, RH Carboleo, Mizanur Rahman, Daniel Weatherhead, will have free flights, accommodation and attendance at Red Hat Summit 2020 in San Francisco, in addition to sharing the top prize of €10,000.

You can find out more about all the winners and submissions here. In addition to all the participants and judges, I also want to say a huge thank you to everyone at Red Hat who made the competition possible. As a campaign to raise awareness and drive up developer adoption, the Hackathon was a great success that really helped shine a light on the agility that open source technology enables for creative and innovative developers.

Winners Announcement changed to December 12

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Everyone! We’ll be announcing the winners of the Red Hat Hackathon during a webinar on Thursday, December 12 at 19:00 CET (7pm).

Due to some internal logistic challenges we have postponed the announcement by one week. We apologize for any inconvenience or any additional jitters for our final submitters.

Here is the URL for the Winner announcement webinar:

https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xysysbyr

We hope you can all attend the announcement as we’ll hear from Red Hat, our judges and the winners too (although they don’t know that yet!).

Round One Participation Gift Card Winners

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

For our appreciation of the hard work that went into creating a submission for our hackathon, three teams from Round One have been randomly chosen to each receive a gift card of 300€.

The teams are:

The winning teams will be notified soon as to how to redeem their gift cards.

Round One Finalists

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Here are the teams who will go on to Round Two to compete for the cash prizes and the passes to the Red Hat Summit 2020! They’ll get one more week to polish their project.

We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the Red Hat ReBoot challenge.

Check back to see who comes out on top on December 5th!

Round One Deadline Extended to Monday

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We are giving you one more weekend to finish up, package and polish your submission!

The new deadline for Round One submissions is Monday, November 4, 13:00 CET.

All other deadlines will remain the same.

If you are a procrastinator - you probably just breathed a sigh of relief. For those of you who are almost finished, you can submit this week, and enjoy your weekend!

You can still ask your questions on Slack.

What is the Red Hat Summit?

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

As you probably know, one of our top prizes of our hackathon is the invitation to attend and present the winning project at our Red Hat Summit in 2020 in San Francisco.

But what is this Red Hat Summit all about?

Put simply: It is a huge event celebrating the power of open source. It is Red Hat driven but open to any other companies and contributors in the space. It is an annual, three day event alternating between San Francisco and Boston.

This year, we’ll hold it in San Francisco between April 27 to 29, 2020. We have most of our customers and partners there.

Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event for thousands of IT professionals to innovate and focus on high-performing Linux, cloud, automation and management, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

In 2020, we expect over 9,000 attendees, over 2000 companies, a gigantic exhibition area, 300 hours of content delivered by 35 expert speakers in a 3 day conference.

So here is what’s in it for you – well, if you win:

We’ll invite the winners to attend the Summit. This means we get you passes, flights and hotel. You can enjoy and consume all the various events, exhibition, talks and content. You will also get the chance to present your winning project at Summit.

Finally, it is a great opportunity to mingle with experts, network and learn. This is huge for whatever you are after: building a business, acquiring knowledge, collecting valuable contacts, or getting a job.

For more details, check out the Red Hat Summit page or in particular the agenda.

24/10 One week to go: submission tips & checklist

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

You’re almost there! There is just one week left to submit your software to the Red Hat ReBoot CX - EMEA.

Submissions are due October 31st before 13:00 CET. (Find out what time that is in your city)

If you haven’t started a submission yet, please do so now. (We’ll walk you through our submission form process if you need help.) And if you’ve just recently joined the hackathon, be sure to familiarize yourself with the official rules, review the requirements and check out the to-do’s listed to help get you started.

Submission checklist

Run through this list before you sit back from your project:

Have you built an app that uses at least two Red Hat technologies?
Does your software enhance a customer service experience?
Have you created a submission video? Does your video clearly demonstrate how your software works? Is it no more than three minutes long? (Check out these tips for making a great submission video.)

Be sure to read through the official rules more than once. Or better yet, have a friend or colleague provide a second pair of eyes to make sure you did not miss anything.

Good luck!

Judging criteria: Who are our Judges?

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

These are the Judges who are going to evaluate and provide feedback to all the interesting projects.

Markus Heimbach - Dynatrace

Biography

Markus is Director of Engineering at Dynatrace. His is a strong advocate of automation and containerization.

At Dynatrace he is working on integrating with OpenShift by utilizing various technologies, being the Operator SDK one of them.

Contributing to Open Source projects in the cloud native space and coding in either Java or Golang.

The Hackathon

We at Dynatrace have amongst others important values the following ones: Wow the customer, it just works and ease of use.

Those values are key to be successful and for sure will power this Hackathon.

Personal Note

I like to go running, hiking and indoor climbing. Now with the approaching winter season, reading a book in front of the chimney is a great way of relaxing.

Github: http://github.com/esukram
Twitter: https://twitter.com/esukram
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-heimbach-616117181/

Gert Jan van Halem - Devoteam

Biography

Gert Jan is a technologist by training and a long-time Lean and Agile enthusiast.

His passion is to help teams and organizations to add more value to their customers by making creating the best IT performance.

He holds a masters degree in Computer Science and has experience in many different IT areas This experience is hands-on and as a lead.

That qualifies him to combine the hands-on implementation of automation and making sure this is embedded in the organization.

The Hackathon

Gert Jan loves the products of RedHat for two reasons. It is amazing technology and it helps the users to focus on customer-centric app development.

Most of his own hands-on experience is in with OpenShift, Ansible, CloudForms and RHEL

Personal Note

Although most of his time goes into tech, there still is time to do the stuff that matters. Gert Jan lives in Delft in the Netherlands. A beautiful historical city.

And in an old house that needs constant attention and construction. Most of which he likes to do himself.

A large part of that is the automation of as much as possible in the house using Home Assistant. But he also plays the piano to unwind.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealGertJan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gert-jan-van-halem/

Jose Quaresma - Accenture

Biography

Jose is leading the DevOps practice at Accenture Technology in Denmark. His main focus is in bringing the best of DevOps’ concepts, processes, and methodologies to the enterprise.

He is interested in both the technology and tools as well as the people and culture aspects of DevOps, Agile, and Lean.

The Hackathon

We at Accenture have a great partnership with Red Hat and I have been working hands-on with Red Hat OpenShift for over 3 years now, which has been a lot of fun!

I am looking forward to see the cool solutions you will come up with!

Personal Note

After a few years of a break, I actually got back into triathlon this year and I have registered for Ironman Copenhagen next years (fingers crossed!).

I love reading so don’t hesitate to reach out if you have a book recommendation!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/josequaresma
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-quaresma/

Markus Eisele - Red Hat

Biography

Markus is a Java Champion, former Java EE Expert Group member, founder of JavaLand, reputed speaker at Java conferences around the world, and a very well known figure in the Enterprise Java world.

The Hackathon

With more than 16 years of professional experience in the industry, he designed and developed large Enterprise grade applications for Fortune 500 companies.

As an experienced team lead and architect, he helped implement some of the largest integration projects in automotive, finance and insurance companies.

More than 12 years of international speaking experience and 5 years in developer advocacy with a strong focus on Java platforms helped him build a large network of professionals and influencers.

He is an O’Reilly author and helped with technical reviews of more than 10 books about technologies he cares for. He published more than 100 articles in various IT publications over the last 10 years.

Personal Note

I’ve traveled almost a Million km since I started working in Developer Relations and Advocacy and I still love doing it.

Twitter: twitter.com/myfear

Antonio Valle Gutierrez - BBVA

Biography

Antonio Valle is the Global Head of BPM Architecture at BBVA since four years ago and worked for BBVA for the last 10 years.

In his current role, he manages and leads the team that develops and maintains the BPM Platforms that serve the different countries where BBVA operates.

He has more than 15 years of experience helping several global financial institutions to leverage IT to transform and improve the way they operate.

Antonio has a Degree in Telecommunication Engineering by the Alcalá de Henares University and an IT Executive Master by the IE Business School.

Judging Criteria

This is what you can expect to be evaluated based on the following areas:

Disruption of Customer Experience

0 - 30 Points The extent to which the submission improves or disrupts a customer experience. Does it significantly change the current standard approach / process of how users interact with the services? Does it have any business or revenue implications?

Quality of Deliverable

0 - 20 Points How well implemented and executed is the submission? Is it intuitive and easy to use (UX)? Does it use development best practices (Good code)? No critical issues/bugs were found.

Quality of Submission

0 - 10 Points The extent to which the written and video submissions were professional and compelling.

Use of Red Hat Open Source Technology

0 - 25 Points The extent to which the Red Hat middleware technologies was used. Is it partially developed or fully developed using on Red Hat open source technology or fully developed on Red Hat?

Technical Innovation

0 - 15 Points A solution that uses advanced technologies, product features or mashups and may push the current state of technology.

Round One Bonus Points for Open Source Contribution to Red Hat

Points maybe allocated as follows: 3 Pts for working pull request submitted on GitHub. Max. 6 points. 2 Pts for completely open-sourced Submission. 1 Pt for opening a meaningful GitHub issue related to one Red Hat tools. Max. 2 points.

Visit our Hackathon Page for more information.

Why Open Source?

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Why contribute to open source projects? There are a number of reasons to contribute to OSS (Open-Source Software).

Here we will enumerate the main motivations that developers have when considering Open Source:

Learning Purpose.
Coding Skills Improvement.
Experience Gain.
Recognition Boost.
Community Impact.
Portfolio and CV.
Fun.

Motivation and Karma

Contributing to open source has the reputation of being intimidating because you are exposing your work, which could lead to criticism, but that should not stop you, it is demonstrated that not only there is way more pros (as we have seen before) than cons, but also it brings up motivation, increases your development karma and it is in the end very rewarding and fulfilling.

Wrapping up: Reporting Red Hat issues

For the purpose of making our open source products and services better, you can start contributing by reporting bugs and issues related to any of our technologies. It is pretty simple:

Go to our Github Organization Page.
Navigate to the corresponding repository related to the technology you are reporting bugs to. Example: Decision Manager
In the issues section, open a new one by clicking on the new issue button.
Add a clear description and label it.
Get some extra points in the hackathon. Check the Judging Criteria Section for more information.

How to Make a Great Submission Video

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We are halfway through the Red Hat ReBoot CX - EMEA challenge! Submissions are due October 31st before 13:00 CET.

Start your submission now

Starting a submission is a good way to make sure that your app meets the requirements. There’s nothing worse than getting to the deadline, only to realize that you’re missing a key component. Remember: once you submit a project, you can keep editing it as needed at any time prior to the submission deadline. Need a primer on how the submission form works? Head over to our submission form tutorial.

Prepare your video

We know as devs you’re expertise lies in building the software - so keep building! - however, the submission video needs time too! It’s often the first (and sometimes only!) thing that judges review.

Your video tells the story behind your submission, providing a clear to showcase your software and talent in a video:

Establish your elevator pitch. In the first few seconds of your video, explain how your software solution uses Red Hat technology and how you ReBoot customer experience with open source!
Within 60 seconds, viewers tend to lose interest, so use this time wisely to keep them engaged!
Show, don’t tell. Providing real life context and showing users firsthand how you’re going to improve customer services through your solution will help judges understand and appreciate your product design.
Keep it simple. Per the official rules, your video shouldn’t be longer than five minutes.
Don’t wait until the last minute to upload your video. Due to file size, format, and your Internet connection, uploading a video to YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku could take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours.
Get organized. Write out a script of what you’ll say and demonstrate in your video and rehearse it before recording. Essentially a good script should talk about:
- The problem that your potential customers face.
- Existing solutions to the problem.
- The solution that your software provides.
- How the software provides it.

redhat-hackathon.github.io

Red Hat EMEA Hackathon winners announced

Winners Announcement changed to December 12

Round One Participation Gift Card Winners

Round One Finalists

Round One Deadline Extended to Monday

The new deadline for Round One submissions is Monday, November 4, 13:00 CET.

What is the Red Hat Summit?

But what is this Red Hat Summit all about?

So here is what’s in it for you – well, if you win:

24/10 One week to go: submission tips & checklist

Submission checklist

Judging criteria: Who are our Judges?

Markus Heimbach - Dynatrace

Biography

The Hackathon

Personal Note

Social Networks

Gert Jan van Halem - Devoteam

Biography

The Hackathon

Personal Note

Social Networks

Jose Quaresma - Accenture

Biography

The Hackathon

Personal Note

Social Networks

Markus Eisele - Red Hat

Biography

The Hackathon

Personal Note

Social Networks

Antonio Valle Gutierrez - BBVA

Biography

Judging Criteria

Disruption of Customer Experience

Quality of Deliverable

Quality of Submission

Use of Red Hat Open Source Technology

Technical Innovation

Round One Bonus Points for Open Source Contribution to Red Hat

Why Open Source?

Motivation and Karma

Wrapping up: Reporting Red Hat issues

How to Make a Great Submission Video

Start your submission now

Prepare your video