Introducing Community Bounty Program “Idea to Application”
Hey Community,
We’re launching a new initiative in which ideas from the Ideas Portal become real applications on Open Exchange, and their authors are rewarded through Global Masters:
💡 Community Bounty Program “Idea to Application” ⚙️
💡 How Does It Work?
Every two months, we’ll select a range of ideas from the Ideas Portal and turn them into bounty challenges. Each cycle represents a new round, giving you the opportunity to build a working implementation, publish it on Open Exchange, and earn Global Masters points along the way.
👥 Who Can Participate?
Anyone, including InterSystems employees, is welcome. Participation is individual — no team submissions allowed.
🌟 Why Join?
Building something real that the community actually needs is rewarding on its own — but we want to make sure your contribution gets the recognition it deserves. Every qualifying submission gets recognized and promoted across the InterSystems Developer Ecosystem.
🏅 Rewards & Recognition
We've prepared two reward tiers depending on your level of participation.
| Tier 1 — Every qualifying submission | Tier 2 — Implement all ideas in the round | |
| Points | Earn from 10k Global Masters points | + 3,000 extra points |
| Badges | Credly + Global Masters | Same as Tier 1 |
| Visibility | Promoted across DC, GM, social media | + LinkedIn spotlight of the developer on our social media |
| Listings | OEX Bounty Apps block + Ideas Portal Hall of Fame | Same as Tier 1 |
Full Rewards Breakdown
Tier 1 — Every qualifying submission:
- 🏅 InterSystems Credly badge
- 🏅 Global Masters App Bounty Wizard badge
- ⭐ Earn from 10k Global Masters points (800 points (app upload) + 7,000 points (idea implementation) + Bounty Bonus)
- 📣 Your app promoted across the Developer Community, Global Masters, and social media
- 🏆 Your app featured in Bounty Apps block on Open Exchange for 2 months
- 📋 Your app added to the Hall of Fame on the Ideas Portal
Tier 2 — If you implement all ideas of the round:
- Everything in Tier 1
- ⭐ + 3,000 extra Global Masters points
- 📣 + LinkedIn personal spotlight on our social media
❗ Points are not exchangeable for cash, only for official Global Masters rewards.
The first round is coming — stay tuned for more details soon!
New to Ecosystem?
- Ideas Portal — where the community submits and votes on feature requests and improvements — you told us what's missing.
- Open Exchange — the InterSystems app gallery where developers publish open-source apps — you build it.
- Global Masters — the InterSystems developer rewards program, where points are redeemable for gifts — you get rewarded for it.
Comments
Please, to the participants: would you consider this idea? A native dark mode in the Management Portal isn’t just cosmetic, it’s about accessibility, focus, and long-term comfort. Dark Mode for Management Portal (or even generalized support for multiple themes)
Many of us spend hours inside the Healthshare Management Portal (often late at night), and the current bright (very bright) interface can become really exhausting, especially for people with visual sensitivities (like me).
Implementing this through the ""Idea to Application"" program would bring immediate, tangible value: better comfort -> less fatigue -> better productivity.
Please, could you consider implementing this idea? 🙏🙏🙏🙇🙇🙇🙏🙏🙏🙂🙂🙂🙏🙏🙏🙇🙇🙇
Thank you.
Gracias.
Yuri Marx, thanks for your help. However, as we (the team where I work and I) use Healthshare inside a Remote Desktop inside a VPN inside a VirtualBox, we (I) have not access to Internet, and there is no way to download Browser Extensions. So, it means, people like me, do really need a native way to have a dark mode on the Healthshare Portal Management, to have less visual fatigue, and increase the productivity. Thank you so much for your help, @Yuri Marx
Not saying anything, but...
Thank you so much @Irène Mykhailova for sharing it. I did not notice that it has been marked as "Planned", yesterday, 23 April :=) :=) :=)
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