1. press release
Paris, September 30
th
2013
Orange announces the winners of the Paris to Berlin Hackathon dedicated to
joyn in partnership with Deutsche Telekom
From September 27th to 29th 2013, Orange welcomed
some 30 developers and designers in Paris, to create and
develop within two days 12 applications integrating joyn
functionalities. Organised with Deutsche Telekom, the
Paris to Berlin Hackathon stimulates innovation and
encourages the development of bright and useful apps
embedding enriched communications functionalities
using joyn APIs.
Orange and Deutsche Telekom via their respective developer program, Orange Partner and
Developer Garden.created this coding contest in order to immerse the French and German
developer ecosystems in the new GSMA communication standard joyn environment. With
joyn, customers can benefit during their calls from simultaneous IM, video sharing or files
transfer, across any compatible device or network, with anyone in their mobile address book.
The 1
st
session of the “Paris to Berlin” hackathon invited developers to code all weekend long
in order to create rich communications apps using the set of joyn APIs. The challenge was
divided in 4 different categories (Best joyn app, combination of joyn and WebRTC, Best app
using the greatest number of APIs and Best enterprise app). Participants were helped by
Orange experts and got access to an android Software Development Kit (SDK) and dedicated
network APIs and also explored the possibilities of technologies such as WebRTC.
The contest took place in a symbolic venue, Simplon.co, which is a start-up factory
empowering entrepreneur-programmers by training every 5 months 24 underprivileged smart
people on web development, and help them to build web start-ups for social good.
Gathered in teams, the developers coded for 48 hours straight and had everything they
needed to eat, drink and even sleep on site. The challenge was to create amazing
communications user experiences with solutions working on real phones and on a real
network. The applications were presented to the panel of judges composed by Sylvain Hou,
Head of Communications services Marketing at Orange France, Christophe Ducamp from
Mydatalabs, Emmanuel Venisse from Bistri, a WebRTC expert, Bob Lovett from GSMA and
Marco Roeder from Deutsche Telekom.
Commenting the results, Luc Bretones, Executive Director of Orange Technocentre and
President of the jury said: “It is very exciting to see the wealth of use cases and imagine how
our European customers will be using native joyn devices in their daily lives. The hackathon is
a great example of operators collaboration, the commitment of Orange to reinforce its role in
the developer and start-ups ecosystem by opening its core assets and use this event to tune
the joyn APIs we will launch in 2014.”
The winners are:
• Best joyn app: Live Browsing, developed by Jean-Marc Auffret and Edward Latter to
share web browsing between two mobiles
• Best combination of joyn and Web RTC: Marmalade Cloud by Arbi Akhina, Yul
Frankenberg, Safwen Khalloufi, Julien Messina and Bilel Msekni a content sharing
platform (music, audio, video) via Web and on mobile allowing artists to play live and

2. keep contact with their fans. This team included the youngest hackathon participant who
is 15-years old.
• Best app using multiple APIs: Kitchen Chat by Aniello del Sorbo, Jonathan Kongolo, Peng
Jiang, Marcella Maltese and Alexandre Pawlak, a joyn-based communications service for
chef restaurants to interact with their customers bearing in mind their dietary or allergic
preferences.
• Best enterprise app: Visio Trade, by Jérôme Derozard, Fabien Mabon and Jay Salvat, an
instant trading marketplace which allows users to quickly buy and sell products and
discuss via video chat with potential buyers/sellers around them.
• Special jury’s price: Whiteboard, developed by Ming Huang, allowing to share a
whiteboard to write and draw between two mobiles.
A weekend trip to Berlin, Droidcon tickets for London, Paris or Berlin and hardware were
offered to the winning teams. In addition, the best applications will be demoed at the RCS
Summit in Berlin in October and featured on the Orange Partner website.
The Deutsche Telekom event will take place in Berlin from October 18th to 20th. This is an
occasion to present the successful cross-activities of both operators through concrete
application developments using joyn APIs.
More on the events on Twitter #joynhack
About Orange Partner
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portfolio of APIs around Orange core services platforms: rich communications, cloud, broadband,
connected objects, NFC & payment, multiscreen entertainment, open data. Orange Partner is a launch-
pad for building partnerships with the ecosystem in an open environment, encouraging innovation in and
around our brand to accelerate service creation, for the benefit of Orange customers. For more
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Group has a total customer base of more than 231 million customers at 30 June 2013, including 174 million mobile
customers and 15 million fixed broadband customers worldwide. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and
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