Open Mainframe Project is hosting its very first Virtual Hackathon for Zowe. From Feb. 23-April 5, participants from all backgrounds – students, developers, engineers, makers – are welcome to join the event. Any new or existing team (consisting of 2-8 participants) can register and submit their current project, or try something new.

The only condition is for the open source project to be Zowe related such as:

An enhancement or addition to the Zowe ecosystem, perhaps a feature you might have been missing in it.

A project to build something of your own on top of Zowe, or leveraging Zowe.

If you have a product of your own, it could be an enhancement to make it compatible with Zowe, or Zowe extension for your product.

A good example of a project is the Zowe Mobile App that initially started as a hackathon project within Open Mainframe Project member Broadcom, which has hosted several internal Zowe events in the past. The Zowe Mobile App has recently been accepted as a part of the Zowe project. You can read more about the app and how it was created in this article.

For additional ideas and Inspiration, you can check the following:

If you have such a project, or you want to experiment and hack something together, please register and submit your work in order to participate in your hackathon.

To register your team, please click here: http://www.cvent.com/d/ynql8z/4W

After April 5, the Open Mainframe Project will host a webinar where each team will have a short slot to present their project in front of a panel of judges to review. Leading solutions will be announced via virtual meetup, blog and will be invited to Open Mainframe Summit, which takes place on September 16-17 in NYC, at no cost.

Evaluation criteria:

Potential business value

Blog/Vlog quality

Innovation/creativity/fun

Learning

Finished product

Resources available to get you started:

For support, please reach out to us using the Open Mainframe Project Slack #virtualhackathon channel, where Zowe community members will offer support to the registered participants during the hackathon.

Additional resources: