To help kick off the new Zenoss 3.0 release, we've decided to help jumpstart the creation and upgrading of ZenPacks with another Community ZenPack Contest! While we've had over 40 new ZenPacks so far in 2010, we're always eager for even more so to help jumpstart the process so we're announcing the 2010 Summer of ZenPacks Contest. Last year we had over 50 entries in the contest and we'd love to triple that number this year, so we're tripling the number of prizes with 3 Grand Prizes and 12 Runner-Ups!
What is the Submit a ZenPack Contest?
Community contributed ZenPacks have typically consisted of new monitoring solutions, but did you know that ZenPacks can do even more than that? We’re looking for as many useful submissions as possible, monitoring something not yet covered, improvements to existing ZenPacks or extending Zenoss to provide new functionality. It doesn’t have to be overly complex, but don’t let that stop you from going wild! And to mark the new Zenoss 3.0 release, we're giving credit to entries that simply take the existing ZenPacks and test and verify that they work with the new release. There are a lot of ZenPacks that are being tested or have yet to been submitted to Zenoss for hosting, so this contest is your chance to show off your chops and possibly win a great prize or two!
The Prizes
There are three Grand Prizes of the Dell Streak, a 5" mobile web tablet running the Open Source Android operating system. They are unlocked for use with different phone networks and can be used as media tablets, GPS units or as mobile wireless devices. We will be giving away three of them to the authors with the most interesting and/or useful ZenPacks, chosen by our judges.
The winners of the Runner-Ups prizes will have their choice between 2 great prizes, either the GuruPlug Server PLUS or the Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router. The GuruPlug Server can be used as an embedded server for a wide variety of purposes, running Linux in a tiny form factor. The NetGear wireless router can be flashed to use the Open Source DD-WRT firmware to maximize the feature set. Since you can win more than one prize, we figured it was best to have multiple options for your prizes.
The Rules
ZenPacks entered into the contest must be Zenoss 3.0 compatible .EGG files with full source (2.5 and earlier compatibility is appreciated if possible). So that we would be able to potentially include the ZenPack in a future release of Zenoss, please consider filling out our Contribution Form. If you’ve previously filled it out, you do not need to do so again. Send an email to community@zenoss.com with the title “Submit a ZenPack Contest” with your name, the attached ZenPack and any documentation you would like to include. Submissions for the Zenoss Submit a ZenPack Contest are open until September 30th at which time our judges will select the three grand-prize winners and 8 runner-ups and and draw randomly from all entries for the other 4 prizes. Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged. You will get one entry for each ZenPack submitted. Updating existing and previously submitted ZenPacks also counts as an entry, we encourage you to test and upgrade existing Community ZenPacks. If you have any questions or need any clarifications, please send them to community@zenoss.com.
ZenPack Developer Resources
- ZenPacks: List of Community, Core and Enterprise ZenPacks
- ZenPack Development: ZenPack developer documentation
- zenoss-zenpacks: ZenPacks forum/mailing list
- ZenPacks.Zenoss.Org: Community ZenPack Repository
- Tip of the Month: Upgrading ZenPacks for Zenoss 3.0
- Zenoss Developer's Guide
