Finalist are announced and voting for the overall winner is now complete: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/09/devtoberfest-contest-voting/. Voting closed on Monday, November 23rd!

This special session is an opportunity for project leads of contest entrants to come together and explain their project goals/vision and to recruit member to help them out during the upcoming build week. You can of course attend if you just want to learn about all the great community projects. But if you are looking for a project to join, this is your chance to learn about some of the possible options. Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020

Recording of the Webinar

Devtoberfest 2020 from SAP – An open celebration of what makes us developers – Coding and Collaboration!

This is an eight week celebration by developers, for developers to kick off the SAP TechEd 2020 season.

• The event will launch with 8 weeks of technical enablement/educational online sessions open to the entire community to highlight key technologies and techniques and plant seed ideas
  • Topics will include: Kyma, Cloud Application Programming Model, SAP HANA Advanced Analytics, Fiori, ABAP, SAP Business Technology Platform APIs, Workflow, Building VSCode Extensions, Running Community Open Source Projects
• Then event will culminate in a one week, build sprint
• The Challenge:
  • Come up with your own developer problem – for the pure love of being a developer. Build something that makes your fellow SAP developers lives better and do so in open source so everyone can share in it. All projects during the build sprint will be given back to the SAP developer community. What you decide to build could be a tool, a library, or even just a code sample. Or an enhancement to an existing community project
  • The real “prize” here is for the whole developer community which will benefit from what is built or started during this event
• GitHub is the open platform for this entire event! Code, collaboration, planning, submission, support from SAP, etc - - all via GitHub
  • Even our planning and communication will be done primarily via GitHub: https://github.com/sap-samples/sap-devtoberfest-2020
• The whole SAP developer community will be encouraged to participate. Like any open source project teams are encouraged to do as much as possible in the open and even accept issues and pull requests from non-team members during the build week
• Throughout the week of the main build sprint we will also do live streams to interview and expose the community to the teams competing. So this is also a great opportunity to get more exposure for your community project
• The output will be code published to a public, git-based repository and a maximum 6 minute video demo of the project (ideally linked from the readme of your project)
• During TechEd 2020, voting will be open for the community to select the winner

• How relevant/helpful is your solution to other SAP developers
• No commercial license - Suggested Licenses
• How well does it utilize the key SAP technologies
• How much of its was actually built during the event and how much was reuse. Existing projects are allowed, but judging will focus on commits done during the Contest Period.
• Technological fascination. Innovative use of technology. Use of multiple types of technology. Use of popular trending technology.
• Entertainment value. Does the presentation grab your attention? Does it stand out compared to others? Does it tell a story that is memorable?
• Only pull requests/commits from users who have met the individual eligibility requirements in will be considered.

Even if you aren't sure yet if you want to create or contribute to an open source project, everyone is welcome to attend any of the educational enablement sessions. We encourage anyone interested to please register via Eventbrite. We can use this registration to inform you of any important information about Devtoberfest.

If you want to participate in the contest/building challenge, then you must register as an individual with Eventbrite.

In order to track the open source projects that will be judged, we also ask that you add the URL to your project in the entry.txt via pull request.

For a current list of contest entries and details about their projects, please see details here

For more information on the role of Open Source in the SAP world: https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html.

If you are an SAP employee and interested in participating in this event; we also welcome your contributions. However please review this SAP internal only wiki link on the process.

The topics for our educational enablement sessions are all listed here: https://github.com/SAP-samples/sap-devtoberfest-2020/tree/master/topics.

This is an initial list and we will be adding more sessions and details as the event progresses.

We have an overview schedule of topics per week visible here in the Kanban board for the project. Each topic page will also list the detailed dates, times and URLs. Once you register for the event, we will also notify you via e-mail of the major events in the schedule.

All of the scheduled content is available in a public Google Calendar so that you can bring the events into your own calendar and get reminders for each of them. Alternatively, if you're subscribed to the SAP Developers YouTube Channel you can get reminder notifications for individual live stream and premiere videos.

Questions about the event? Or the judging? Need some help getting your open source project? Or maybe you have a follow up question after participating in one of the educational enablement sessions? For any question or comment related to Devtoberfest we ask that you please create an issue in this repository.

The legal terms and conditions of for this event are detailed in the TOC.

Copyright (c) 2020 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. This project is licensed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0 except as noted otherwise in the LICENSE file.