Hello, Community!
It's time for the next InterSystems Developer Community contest!
✍️ InterSystems IRIS Technical Tutorial Contest ✍️
Create a Technical Tutorial** that can be considered a guide for InterSystems IRIS programmers of any level: beginner/intermediate/senior, from October 14th to November 24th. The tutorial can be in the form of an Article with text and images and/or a Demonstration Video.
Enjoy and let your creativity flow! Show how easy and fun it can be to create solutions with InterSystems IRIS.
🎁 Prizes for everyone: A special prize for each author participating in the competition!
Prizes
1. Everyone is a winner in the Tech Article Contest! Any member who writes an article during the competition period will receive a special prize:
🎁 InterSystems - Developer Community Thermos Bottle (300 ml)
2. Expert Awards – articles will be judged by InterSystems experts:
🥇 1st place: iPad Air de 11” Wi-Fi 128 GB
🥈 2nd place: Air Pods Pro 2nd gen
🥉 3rd place: Echo Show: Smart Display Full HD 15,6’’ com Alexa
3. Developer Community Award – article with the most likes:
🎁 Echo Dot - Alexa Echo Dot 5th gen
Note:
- The author can only be awarded once per category (in total, the author will win two prizes: one for Expert and one for the Community)
- In the event of a tie, the number of votes of the experts for the tied articles will be considered a tie-breaking criterion.
Who can participate?
Any Developer Community member, except for InterSystems employees. Create an account!
Contest period
📝 October 14th to November 10th: Publication of articles.
🗳️ November 11th to November 17th: Voting time.
🏅 November 18th: Winners announcement.
Publish an article(s) throughout this period. DC members can vote for published articles with Likes – votes in the Community award.
Note: The sooner you publish the article(s), the more time you will have to collect both Expert & Community votes.
What are the requirements?
❗️ Any article written during the contest period and satisfying the requirements below will automatically* enter the competition:
- The article must be a tutorial** on the InterSystems IRIS topic. It can be either for beginners, middle or senior developers.
- The article must be in Portuguese (incl. inserting code, screenshots, etc.).
- The article must be 100% new (it can be a continuation of an existing article not in the contest).
- The article cannot be a translation of an article already published in other communities.
- The article should contain only correct and reliable information about InterSystems technology.
- The article has to contain the Tutorial tag.
- Article size: 400 words minimum (links and code are not counted towards the word limit).
- Articles on the same topic but with dissimilar examples from different authors are allowed.
* Our experts will moderate articles. Only valid content will be eligible to enter the contest.
** Tutorial “is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture, a tutorial seeks to teach by example and provide the information to complete a certain task.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial
Tutorials provide step-by-step instructions that a developer can follow to complete a specific task or set of tasks.
🎯 EXTRA BONUSES
This time, we've decided to add additional bonuses that will help you to win the prize! Please welcome:
Bonus |
Nominal |
Details |
Topic bonus |
5 |
If your article is on the topic from the list of proposed topics (listed below), you will receive a bonus of 5 Expert votes. |
Video bonus |
3 |
Besides publishing the article, make an explanatory video. |
Discussion bonus |
1 |
Article with the most useful discussion, as decided by InterSystems experts. Only 1 article will get this bonus. |
New participant bonus |
3 |
If you haven't participated in the previous contests, your article(s) will get 3 Expert votes. |
Programming bonus |
5 |
Besides publishing the article, Publish your related application on InterSystems Open Exchange. And don't forget to reference it in the article. |
Proposed topics
Here's a list of proposed topics that will give your article extra bonuses:
✔️ Using AI/ML/GenAI
✔️ Using Vector Search
✔️ Using FHIR SQL Builder
Note: Articles on the same topic from different authors are allowed.
It's time to show off your writing skills! Good luck ✨