IBM Cloud Hackathon

Dear Hackers,

IBM builds its cloud offerings on open standards to ensure interoperability
and accelerate clients' success with cloud.

To promote awareness and development of skills relevant for this platform,
IBM University Relations program brings to you "Cloud Hackathon" an
opportunity to Learn, add some cool skills to your resume, compete and win
some exciting prizes and opportunity to work with IBMers on interesting
Open Cloud projects.

The hackathon is based on Cloud Foundry & Opscode Chef. We launched the
contest on 21st Jan and are accepting entries for Phase 1 until 16th Feb.
Phase 1 of the contest requires students to only submit ideas. So register
first with a simple 2-3 line idea and IBMers will be available to help &
guide you all along the way
To REGISTER for the hackathon click here:
http://university-relations.in/wps/portal/cloudcontest

If hackers have questions about the hackathon or want help to brainstorm
ideas, we have an Ideation session that will take place on Thu, 13th Feb at
5:30 pm

We would like to invite students from your esteemed institute to
participate enthusiastically.

   Did you ever try setting up a load balanced, high availability Apache
      Server cluster OR a MySQL Cluster. These are time consuming tasks
      requiring good amount of expertise in system administration,
      installation and configuration. And this is a candidate for
      automation using Opscode chef, take a look at 100s of such automation
      artifacts (recipes / cookbooks) here -
      http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks and cook up your idea around
      Opscode Chef Automation for the "Cloud Hackathon"
         some examples include
               Email / Instant Messaging platforms & servers like : IRC,
                  Horde
               Appservers like Apache, WebSphere Community Edition,
                  possibly with High Availability, in Cluster or Load
                  Balanced
               Databases like MySQL, Cloudscape with High Availability, in
                  Cluster or Load Balanced
               Automation to do the hardening of OS Instances to make it
                  secure
   Composition services in the PaaS platform like Cloud Foundry are
      essentials and will soon become very basic expectation of the
      application developer to have them available from the platform. For
      example mail and messaging, or GPS/motion tracking, reservations and
      more.. So, think of cooking up a killer composition service on Cloud
      Foundry as your idea for the "Cloud Hackathon"

Once your ideas are submitted and pass through the Phase 1 of the contest,
we will help you to develop them for the Phase 2 of the contest.  IBM
mentors will help and guide you throughout the Phase 2 of the hackathon

Useful links pertaining to the Cloud Hackathon contest:

To REGISTER for the hackathon click here
http://university-relations.in/wps/portal/cloudcontest
Videos for self learning
https://university-relations.in/wps/portal/universityrelationIBM/
For clarifications & help post questions here
http://university-relations.in/wps/portal/forum

For sharing with others, updates on FB & Twitter here:
Hackathon updates on
fb                                                                                  :

https://www.facebook.com/IBMUR
Hackathon updates on
twitter                                                                           :

https://twitter.com/IBMIndiaUR

Links to learn about cloud foundry
Learn about Cloud Foundry                       http://cloudfoundry.org/
Introduction
http://www.slideshare.net/platformcf/pivotal-cf-the-platform-for-building-great-software

Getting Started
http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/dotcom/getting-started.html
Applications
http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/using/deploying-apps/index.html
Creating your own Service
http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/running/architecture/services/api.html
Service LifeCycle
http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/using/services/
Running a CloudFoundry instance locally
http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/running/deploying-cf/run-local.html
Micro CF
http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/2012/11/08/new-release-of-micro-cloud-foundry/


Links to learn about OpsCode Chef:
Opscode Community               http://community.opscode.com/
Chef Overview
http://docs.opscode.com/chef_quick_overview.html
Learn Chef                      https://learnchef.opscode.com/
Quick Start Guide
http://gettingstartedwithchef.com/first-steps-with-chef.html
Just Enough Ruby
http://docs.opscode.com/just_enough_ruby_for_chef.html
Cookbook Development    https://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef10/Cookbook
+Fast+Start+Guide