This summer has brought several developments that will be fundamental to the future of our Community.

The Foundation’s team, together with our great Community Members, have been busy laying the groundwork for an improved developer experience as well as making important changes to the Foundation’s governance, in order to ensure the scalable growth of our Community and a compelling offering for our Members.

SSF Powers New World Symphony

As first of many news to come, I am proud to announce that the Symphony Software Foundation will be the tech partner powering New World Symphony!

New World Symphony is the first full-day developer event co-hosted by Symphony and the Symphony Software Foundation, which will take place in NYC on October 5th.

At NWS 2016, Symphony customers’ and partners’ developers will compete to build bots, apps and Symphony integrations.  The best teams will be awarded prizes (and never-ending glory) at the following day's Symphony Innovate event. Check out the list of  currently proposed projects!

The Foundation will be powering development at NWS, providing a Symphony development POD which all NWS developers can use to test and run their customizations against the Symphony Platform APIs.

NWS participants can check out instructions to access the POD and sign up to the Foundation Dev List to get support before and during the event. On this note, Maurizio Pillitu, the Foundation’s Director of DevOps, has prepared a webinar on how to access the NWS Development POD.

You can find the recording here and check out the slides at the bottom of the post (or use this link if you can’t access Slideshare).

The SSF team will be available on site to support the development teams and ensure a great developer experience on Symphony.

We can’t wait to meet all of our Community contributors!

What happens to code developed during NWS?

Participants can choose to either:

1. Contribute it as an open source project to the Symphony Software Foundation: original developers follow the SSF Code Contribution Process and contribute the project to the Foundation, under the Apache License v2, to be hosted in the SSF Github repository. In addition to receiving contributions from other teams and Community Members, the developers will keep their Developer access to the Foundation development infrastructure.
2. Maintain their work product from NWS as proprietary:* in this case original developers maintain their code within their organization and do not license it for use by the Foundation or any other third party. Access and credentials to the Foundation development infrastructure will be removed soon after NWS.

* NOTE: To be eligible for prizes at the Hackathon, participants will be required to present their work. Participants will not be required to keep one another’s projects confidential or to refrain from using ideas presented by other participants.

We look forward to getting contributions from the participants and love to help support those moving forward through the power of our Community. Still need some motivation to contribute?

NWS Best Contribution Prize

They say "money doesn't buy happiness," but what about a drone? :)

If you are unsure about contributing your project to the Foundation, we’d like to offer one more element of motivation.

The Foundation will reward the best project contributed to the Foundation with a brand new GoPro Karma drone (available later in October)!

NOTE: This prize only applies to projects contributed to the Foundation, so I suggest you review the Code Contribution Process and get your CONTRIB issue going!

So even if your contribution doesn’t bring you happiness, it can still bring you good karma (pun intended).

We look forward to seeing all of you at NWS!