Announcing Atmos Hack Day (you're invited, win an iPad 2)

You're invited to come "hack" on the Atmos API with our team!  Meet our team, create an app, and win an iPad 2!

Atmos Hack Day is a one day event where developers create an application based on the EMC Atmos REST data API.  The types of applications created during the event are limited only by a team’s imagination.

Two person teams of developers will create “hacks” in which they develop something innovative (and perhaps fun) with the Atmos API.  At the end of the day each team presents their hack.  The audience votes for the best hack and each member of the two person winning team is awarded an iPad 2.

The goal of hack day isn’t necessarily to create a robust, scalable, secure application per se.  The objective is to illustrate a concept end-to-end in a limited amount of time.  The focus of the hacks can be anything:  music, photos, consumer, enterprise, cloud, big data, or mobile --- there are no rules or limits as to what you create with the Atmos API for Hack Day.

Register here:   www.seeuthere.com/atmoshackdayreg

When:  Friday April 8th, 2011 (8AM kickoff, 7PM closing presentations)

Where:  11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA  02142  (precise location may change based on number of registrants)

Primary audience:  Developers capable of creating something as a two person team based on the Atmos REST API.

Who’s invited:  Anyone interested in hacking on the Atmos API --- external developer community of partners, service providers, customers, and EMC engineers, students, etc.

Prize: 2 person winning team will each get an iPad 2!

Food and beverages:  We’ll have bagels for breakfast, lunch, snacks, beverages, etc for the event.

Updates or questions regarding the event: Updates will be posted on the Atmos developer site located here:

https://community.emc.com/message/534410#534410

Rules:

1. Must use the publicly available REST data API (no private Atmos interfaces or hidden features)
2. Limit hacks to applications created during hack day itself --- mature applications are not eligible for entry.
3. Must form two person teams, self-organized for the event.  (Choose your own partner before coming to the event.)
4. You must be registered to participate.  EMC employees will require their badges. Non-EMC employees will require official identification. 
5. Must be present in Cambridge at the kickoff meeting in the morning and throughout the event including the closing session to win.
6. Substantial, external pre-existing code needs to be available to all participants. (In other words don’t show up with an app you’ve been building for months.)
7. If you’re an EMC employee outside of CIG you need permission from your manager to attend.
8. Bring your own laptop. We'll supply the wireless.

Available wrappers:

1. Java wrapper
2. .NET wrapper
3. PHP wrapper
4. Python wrapper
5. C wrapper
6. Flex wrapper
7. JavaScript wrapper
8. Atmos Fuse

Legal made me say the following:

Entry to this contest is subject to the contest rules.  All participants will be given a copy of the contest rules upon registration and participation in the contest will be subject to acceptance of these rules.  EMC will attempt to post a version of these rules on this site before the contest.