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Competition for developers with a prize pool of $ 100,000 and the first affiliate conference for participants in the Evernote Gallery

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Over the past few years, a wonderful community of users, developers and partners has evolved around Evernote. Together, we are creating the first global global external memory platform, and this makes support and interaction with our ecosystem one of the most important (and useful) tasks. In this regard, we are pleased to announce the first event dedicated to the service ecosystem - a conference for the participants of the Evernote Gallery called Evernote Trunk Conference (ETC) , as well as the first Developer Competition . Below we describe these events in more detail.

Evernote developer competition with a prize pool of $ 100,000!


Continuing the development of the Evernote community, we are waiting for the next wave of wonderful applications and integrations that will be loved by millions of Evernote users. To whet community interest, we launch the first global Developer Contest.

The authors of the most innovative and useful applications can count on large cash prizes, and their creations will be presented at our conference dedicated to the Evernote Gallery ( Evernote Trunk Conference ) in August. The main site of the competition is here , and below we will go through its main provisions.
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Prize fund


How to participate

  1. Register on the competition website. We will generate you a special API key and will keep up to date with all the news regarding the competition and the conference.
  2. Develop your application, service, or device that uses Evernote features in one way or another. For inspiration, take a look at the already existing examples in the Evernote Gallery .
  3. Send your application. Call for applications begins June 10 and ends at 23:59 PST on July 15, 2011. It will be 10:59 on July 16 in Moscow.

Competition Rules

Below is a summary of how and according to the rules of the competition will be held. Full details with all the details are available in the official English Terms and Conditions section.
  1. Applications for participation in the competition are accepted only for those applications and services that did not have open source integration with Evernote as of May 19, 2011.
  2. All applications must be submitted in English so that all judges can freely read them.
  3. Any form of technical integration with the Evernote platform is eligible to participate in the competition. These can be products using the Evernote Web Service API, Evernote Site Memory, direct integration with the Evernote software client and other methods listed in the corresponding section of the site .
  4. Make sure that the application or service you offer is available for free to our judges. They may not be available publicly during the competition, but the jury should be able to evaluate the performance using an Evernote account. As for applications for iOS, we will provide a list of UDID devices on which testing will be conducted.
  5. We will evaluate all the proposed works and will announce the list of six finalists on July 22, 2011. Each of the finalists will receive a cash prize of $ 5,000, as well as a paid flight and accommodation for two nights during the Evernote Trunk Conference on August 18 in San Francisco.
  6. Evaluation of the works of the finalists will be held from July 22 to August 5, 2011. This process will consist of two stages:

Refereeing

When selecting the finalists and winners, the judges will consider the works of participants according to the following four criteria:

Winners

We have provided the following nominations.

Grand Prix: The finalist with the maximum points scored in the final standings will win the grand prize of $ 50,000.
Student Prize: Author of the best work among students (chosen by Evernote judges) will receive a prize of $ 10,000.
Prize for creativity: The most innovative, creative or unexpected work (chosen by Evernote judges) will also earn a prize of $ 10,000.

Winners will be announced at ETC on August 18, 2011.

What is ETC?


We are organizing a one-day event in San Francisco that should help Evernote community members get closer, developers and entrepreneurs are better able to organize interaction with each other for the benefit of our users and fans. If you are starting a project, we would like to help you achieve success. If you need advice on how to develop and scale your business, we will share our experience. If you are looking for a way to more fully use Evernote, we are ready to give you suggestions.

Here is what is expected at the event:

Developer Sections
Evernote developers and partners will discuss topics related to the Evernote API service, our cloud architecture, the Evernote Site Memory partner program, best practices for the mobile environment, and more. You will also have the opportunity to receive advice and assistance directly from the Evernote team.

Product sections
As part of these discussions, we will share stories of successful development, offer you ideas of useful integrations with the service, and give tips on how to ensure dizzying success from integrating your application with Evernote.

Custom sections
We will invite you to familiarize yourself with tips and stories of people for whom Evernote has become an integral part of life. You will learn how to become more productive, more collected and simply unique with Evernote.

The full conference schedule will appear shortly on the ETC website .

Event Information


We are very pleased to have the opportunity to hold an ETC conference and a developer competition. Together we are building the first global global external memory platform, and this is a really big task!

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