Overview of the IBM Hackathon at ZendCon 2014

1. Welcome to the IBM Hackathon
at ZendCon 2014
Carl Osipov, IBM, @CloudsWithCarl
Joshua Solomin, Zend, @JSolomin

2. Ground Rules (1 of 2)
 Build an application to wow your audience, the
attendees of ZendCon 2014
 Work individually or as a team of up to 3
people
 One prize per team
 Use Zend Server 7 / PHP on Bluemix
 Zend and IBM people are around to help
 Sample code is available, check your hackathon registration
email
 github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon
 Think of your own application idea or
do something with
 wearable and mobile application backends
 API composition

3. Ground Rules (2 of 2)
 Ensure that your application is accessible to
anyone on the Internet via a URL
 Tweet @IBMBluemix with your application URL
and #zendcon to describe what you built
 ZendCon attendees will be tweeting and
retweeting about your applications
 Hackathon starts at 8pm on Tuesday and ends
at 4pm on Wednesday
 We will contact you via email tomorrow after
6pm if you were selected to present
Use common sense: We reserve the right to
ignore any project that we deem inappropriate

4. Tools at your disposal
 Bluemix PaaS
 Code the way you want. Deploy in seconds. Scale as needed.
 Reuse services like IBM Watson, MySQL, Twilio.
 Start with a free trial. Experiment with a free tier for every
service.
 Zend Server 7
 Fast PHP environment with extensions and libraries
preconfigured
 Use Z-Ray to rapidly find problems while you code
 Execution time, database queries, functions, request details, and
more
 Sample code github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon
 IBM Watson for Travel, Cloudant (CouchDB) NoSQL, Internet of Things
 MySQL
 Sendgrid, Twilio

5. Top 12 Selection Process
 Starting at 5pm on Wednesday, judges from Zend will
monitor tweets mentioning @IBMBluemix and
#zendcon to learn about your applications
 Tweets that get the most retweets and favorites will be
filtered out by the judges and the corresponding
projects will be selected for the top 12
 If your application is selected by the judges, we will
contact at 6pm on Wednesday using the email you
provided when you registered for the hackathon.

6.  If you receive an email notifying you that you were
selected for the top 12, please be ready to present
your app during a 5 minute lightning talk between 8
and 9:30pm on Wednesday
 Our distinguished panel of handpicked judges will
review the top 12 projects presented at the Wed event
and choose the top 3 prize winners
 Judges
 Matthew Weier O’Phinney
 Michelangelo van Dam
 @DragonBe
 Rob Allen
Judges Panel

7. Prizes
 Each winning team (or individual) will be awarded a
Raspberry Pi dev kit on Thursday
during the closing keynote

8. THANK YOU
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