9. Judges
Aino Corry
Martin Fowler
Program Chair for Qcon/GOTO Simon Wardley Chief Scientist Thoughtworks
Strategist
Werner Vogels Yury Izrailevsky
CTO Amazon Joe Weinman VP Cloud Netflix
SVP Telx, Author “Cloudonomics”
10. What are Judges Looking For?
Eligible, Apache 2.0 licensed
Original and useful contribution to NetflixOSS
Code that successfully builds and passes a test suite
A large number of watchers, stars and forks on github
NetflixOSS project pull requests
Good code quality and structure
Documentation on how to build and run it
Evidence that code is in use by other projects, or is running in production
11. What do you win?
One winner in each of the 10 categories
Ticket and expenses to attend AWS
Re:Invent 2013 in Las Vegas
A Trophy
12. How do you enter?
Get a (free) github account
Fork github.com/netflix/cloud-prize
Send us your email address
Describe and build your entry
Twitter #cloudprize
13. Award
Apache
Registration Close Entries AWS Ceremony
Github Opens Today
Github Licensed Github September 15 Dinner
Contributions Re:Invent
November
Judges Winners
$10K cash
$5K AWS
Netflix
Nominations Categories
Ten Prize Engineering
Categories
AWS
Trophy Re:Invent Conforms to Working Community
Tickets Entrants Rules Code Traction
14. After Two Weeks
• 635 forks of github.com/Netflix/Cloud-Prize
• Lots of good press coverage
– Businessweek – Ashlee Vance was there
– http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-14/netflix-announces-100-
000-in-prizes-for-coders
15. Blog Posts Keeping Story Going
• How Netflix is Ruining Cloud Computing
– Great discussion in the comments
– http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-
computing/platform/how-netflix-is-ruining-cloud-
computing/240151650
• Joe Weinman – InformationWeek
– http://www.informationweek.com/global-
cio/interviews/netflixs-cloud-contest-more-companies-
sh/240151747
• Werner Vogels
– http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/03/netflix-oss-
cloud-prize.html