DevXS 2011

Need something to get your teeth into? Here are all the challenges your team can enter at DevXS 2011!

Prizes are issued to the winning teams to be divided up by the team as they choose. Judging will be done by DevXS 2011 organisers, nominated judges and representatives from companies who are sponsoring prizes.

Scholarly Publishing

£100 Vouchers

Set by Public Platforms

A £100 bounty for innovative work relating to scholarly publishing.

Most Sustainable Web Application

$200 AWS Credit

Set by The DevXS Team

Build a web application that the DevXS team thinks is sustainable and useful, and we’ve got $200 of AWS credit up for grabs to help keep it going.

Challenging Gender Stereotypes

£200 Vouchers

Set by University of Lincoln School of Computing

The Lincoln School of Computer Science Computing Education Group (CEG) would like to offer a £200 prize for work which challenges gender stereotypes in computing, gaming etc.

The DevCSI Competition

£250 Vouchers
1st Prize

Set by DevCSI

The DevCSI Competition is an overall prize to the best ideas that make a difference to University life for students and / or staff.

  • First Prize: £250 Amazon voucher
  • Second Prize: £150 Amazon voucher
  • Third Prize: £100 Amazon voucher

data.lincoln.ac.uk

£250+ Vouchers

Set by LNCD, University of Lincoln

£250 in vouchers for the best use of data.lincoln.ac.uk. May be combined with external data sources and APIs.

3 x £50 Amazon vouchers for clearly defined ideas around the use of data.lincoln.ac.uk combined with external data sources/APIs.

Inclusion and Accessibility

£100 Voucher

Set by LNCD, University of Lincoln

£100 ‘bonus’ voucher for the work that best demonstrates attention to accessibility and inclusivity. See this wiki page for guidance.

Social Apps and APIs

£200 Vouchers

Set by LiSC

Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre (LiSC)

This award will go to the best project addressing any of these four themes:

  • Applications that annotate the physical world, digitally, in ways that expand our encounters with the world (i.e., serendipity), rather than limiting them
  • Apps that support social interaction at hack weekends
  • Apps that use university data in subversive or cheeky ways
  • Mashing open government data sets (data.gov.uk) with university data

Smart Research Frameworks

£150 Vouchers

Set by University of Southampton

Design and build an application that uses our “health and safety dataset” to provide a service to university students and/or staff.

The winner will receive £150 in Amazon or iTunes gift vouchers.
Three runners-up will each receive £50 in Amazon or iTunes gift vouchers.

For more information see Safe Mate.

Library activity

£250 Vouchers

Set by University of Lincoln Library

The University of Lincoln Library are sponsoring a £250 Amazon voucher prize (5 x £50 vouchers), which will be awarded to the team making the best use of

library activity data as part of the application(s) they develop over the weekend.  See the Data page on the wiki for examples of freely-available library activity data.

More ideas...

Set by various people

Take a look at the Wiki for more ideas and challenges. http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Competitions

Nothing catch your eye?

If none of the challenges for DevXS 2011 excite you then don't worry — you can develop anything that you like!