• Kris Wallsmith
• about 1 year ago
• Community
• 42

Looking for something to do with all that brain power? We're happy to announce an upcoming community event that will harness the power of the symfony community toward a variety of social causes. Help us get the word out!

This event will take on the basic structure of other 48 hour web application development competitions, such as Rails Rumble, but with a special twist unique to symfony. The applications we create during the course of the competition will be gifted to different socially-minded organizations around the world. Once the fun is over, our work will live on and hopefully do a lot of good.

A Call for Causes

The first thing we need is to determine who we're working for. If you are or know of a socially-minded organization that could benefit from an interactive web application, we want to hear from you.

Please submit a brief proposal for the application you would like built that includes the following:

• A description of your organization (200 words or less)
• A description of the application you would like built (400 words or less)

Please keep in mind these applications will be built in 48 hours or less by small development teams. If you're not sure how to gauge the effort involved in your proposal, just send in your idea and we'll help refine a reasonable scope.

Submissions should be sent to me, kris.wallsmith[at]symfony-project.com.

Yeah, yeah. When do we code?

We are still in the early stages of planning for this event, but we want to get the ball rolling. We'll be opening submissions for development teams shortly; the competition will happen sometime this spring.

In the meantime you can help us out with any of the following:

• Spread the word Tweet! Blog! Vlog! Or, if you have marketing expertise and want to join the team, hit me up.
• Sponsors We will need sponsors to help with hosting and prizes.
• A name (!) Any ideas?

Comments

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  #1 Fabian said 10 minutes later

  name: symfony (in) concert!

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  #2 denderello said 19 minutes later

  name: symfony battle of orchestras

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  #3 zero0x said about 1 hour later

  'concert' is great name :)

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  #4 aimxhaisse said about 1 hour later

  That sounds very good :)

  This is a very good idea! For Symfony and the chosen community, bu also for developers in so far as this will be an excellent way to share experiences with other developers.

  I think that's something missing at that moment, I haven't seen any common projects developed by the community (sorry for my ignorance if there are some).

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  #5 fz said about 2 hours later

  Name: symfray

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  #6 gravity said about 3 hours later

  Name: "symfony conducted" / "symfony conductors"

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  #7 gravity said about 3 hours later

  "symfony score"

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  #8 Mom said about 3 hours later

  THAT'S MY BOY :) :)

  THAT'S GREAT--GOOD FOR YOU!!

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  #9 n8v said about 6 hours later

  +1 for the "concert" concept... maybe "symfony: live in concert" ?

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  #10 follover said about 6 hours later

  Great idea. "Symfony live" or "Symfony sprint"

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  #11 Robert Speer said about 9 hours later

  www.sierra-bravo.com is on our second year of hosting an event very similar to this.
  http://www.f1webchallenge.com

  We kick off Feb. 28th, there's still some slots available for dev's of all frameworks & languages.

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  #12 Joe Entrepreneur said about 12 hours later

  Will the competition be about only building new apps or it can involve building cool new feature for existing apps as well?
  Like our for social marketplace http://www.onista.com we are thinking of many building cool features.
  One of the such features can be built in 48 hours by small team.

  Info appreciated,

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  #13 Erubiel Valladares said about 14 hours later

  MY IDEA FOR NAME, HOW ABOUT:

  Comunity action in symfony

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  #14 Ad van der Veer said about 19 hours later

  How about:

  "Symfony Jam" or "Symfony Harmony" i indeed like the concert / togetherness idea

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  #15 COil said about 21 hours later

  Good idea ! :)

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  #16 Thomas Sandford said about 23 hours later

  In order to meet the (praiseworthy) social aims, some thought will be needed as to how the applications will be supported beyond the 48 hour (Symfonietta?).

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  #17 Kris said 1 day later

  @Robert - I guess the twist is not unique to symfony!

  @Joe - This is being discussed

  @Thomas - There will be requirements for documentation and automated tests that should address this important concern

  @Mom - **blush**

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  #18 Nils said 1 day later

  COOOL !

  name : SEVENT - Symfony Event

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  #19 Altrano said 1 day later

  askeet, jobeet, why not symfeet :)

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  #20 Fred said 1 day later

  +1 Symfeet

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  #21 tavo said 1 day later

  Yeah... or maybe Symfoneet?

  pd: Symfony rules!

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  #22 Johnny said 1 day later

  Will these sites be available to the public as an example of how an entire Symfony project can be made, or will they not be released?

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  #23 pacogliss said 3 days later

  name : "SoliFony : let's play together !"

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  #24 adrive said 3 days later

  +1 for the Symfoneet

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  #25 lking said 3 days later

  +1 for Symfoneet

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  #26 denderello said 3 days later

  I like the "let's play together!" slogan and the name "Symfoneet". How about this?

  "symfoneet - let's play together!"

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  #27 web entrepreneur said 3 days later

  I love to have this free web application.

  <A HREF="http://www.mathewcarpenter.com">web entrepreneur</A>
  

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  #28 Gaspard said 3 days later

  What would be fantastic, in order to encourage multi-ethnic geek exchanges would be to pick up randomly the team partners :-)

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  #29 aimxhaisse said 3 days later

  @gaspard: That would be great :)

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  #30 NiKo said 3 days later

  To me, "concerto" sounds great

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  #31 Kris said 3 days later

  In response to a number of emails I've received: there is no requirement that organizations have any sort of official non-profit status to participate as a "cause."

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  #32 Lucas said 4 days later

  I'm think "SymfoWork" sounds good !!!

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  #33 OrangeD said 4 days later

  I like the idea of a concert.

  symfoneet is continuous, that's true - but it sounds geeky ;)

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  #34 old guy said 4 days later

  Symphony Comes Alive
  Symphony Alive II
  Symphony Double Live Gonzo
  

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  #35 Barak said 5 days later

  Nice strategy and online offer! How about the Public Forum like this one here?....
  By: publicforum.weebly.com

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  #36 Christopher Parker said 5 days later

  I'd suggest projects to extend civiCRM, an open-source non-profit CRM used by a wide variety of non-profits (including me).

  Contributing to civiCRM means the benifit of the work will go to many organizations, rather than just one.

  In particular, things I'd like to see (just my own personal hopes among many worthy goals): closer integration between civiCRM and Joomla user tables (for log-on and access control and community builder and forum intigration) . . . a volunteer management module . . . a package of customizable on-line forms to make the program more out-of-the-box ready to go.

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  #37 fullo said 7 days later

  it should be great to have an application such as doodle.ch or eventbride to organize conference, dinners and any kind of events (maybe the next symfony camp too ;) ).

  Imho is not a too big task but surely will be usefull.

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  #38 denderello said 8 days later

  maybe a mixxt community(mixxt.com)? many barcamps in germany are organised via mixxt.
  

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  #39 mohamed said 11 days later

  this wep

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  #40 Kostyantyn said 13 days later

  Kris,
  I sent You inquiry about this event some weeks ago, have You received it?

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  #41 nejib said 13 days later

  etudient

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  #42 nejib said 13 days later

  etudient