#Global Masters

Hey Community,

We are really looking for your feedback on a new offering - InterSystems FHIR Transformation Service. 
It went live on AWS Marketplace where you can try it for free!

We launched a related challenge on GM where you can get points for giving it a try and a "thank you" prize to everyone who leaves feedback in comments to this post.  

Hi Developers,

It's time to announce the Winners for June 2021! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in June 2021:

🥇 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

🥈  @Muhammad Waseem, HIS Team Lead, International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

🥉 @Vic Sun, Support Specialist, InterSystems Corporation, Boston, USA

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi Developers, 

It's time to announce the Winners for May 2021! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in May 2021:

🥇 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

🥈  @Guilherme Koerber, Programmer, Bplus Tecnologia, Brazil

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi Developers, 

We invite you to take a few minutes and leave a review about your experience with InterSystems IRIS on the TrustRadius. Submitting a review requires time and effort, so we'll be glad to reward you with a $25 VISA Gift Card for a published review!  
UPDATE: this promotion ended in 2021. 

We are pleased to announce that now you can choose the preferred language of the Global Masters program! Available languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese.

Choose the language in your profile settings:

Hi Developers, 

It's time to announce the Winners for April 2021! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in April 2021:

🥇 @Dmitriy Maslennikov, Co-founder, CTO and Developer Advocate, CaretDev Corp, Russia

🥈  @Lorenzo Scalese, Solution Architect, Zorgi, Belgium

🥉 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi Everyone,

It's now more than 450 applications on Open Exchange - exciting! That's so important for app's developers to hear your thoughts about their applications.  So - if you tried at least 1 app / project on Open Exchange: 

⇨ join the Open Exchange Reviews Marathon and enter the raffle for a prize: Logitech C920S Pro HD 1080p Webcam!

Hi Community, you asked and here they are - badges for translations on Global Masters! 

Badge's Name		Rules
DC Translator  Given for 1 translation 2nd Advocate level		Counted translations from English to all other language versions of Developer Community.  Positive rating (votes up) or zero votes Posts from the Developer Community Feedback group are not counted. Please note, there are 3-days delay between published translation and awarded badge.
Advanced Translator Given for 5 translations 3rd Specialist level
Bronze Translator  Given for 15 translations 4th Expert level
Silver Translator Given for 25 translations 5th Ambassador level
Gold Translator Given for 50 translations 6th VIP level

Hi Developers, 

We are pleased to introduce new reward on Global Masters available for advocates on Expert, Ambassador and VIP levels:

Apple AirPods with branded case!

Hope you'll enjoy new prize! 

Also! Now you'll see "unlockable rewards" in your  Rewards catalogue with a note which level you'd need to achieve to unlock a reward:

Hi Developers, 

It's time to announce the Winners for March 2021! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in March 2021:

🥇 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

🥈@Dmitriy Maslennikov, Co-founder, CTO and Developer Advocate, CaretDev Corp, Russia

🥉@Henrique Dias Dias, System Management Specialist / Database Administrator, Sao Paulo Federal Court, Brazil

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi Developers! 

We double up the number of points awarded for each post and translation on Developer Community. Starting from 03/18/21 you get for each article or question:

✅ 200 points on DC EN
✅ 400 points* on DC ES / PT / CN / JP

and
✅ 100 points for each translation!

Also, do you remember that you get a bunch of points for a pack of articles/comments? Please check here:

Hi Developers, 

We hope that you enjoy participating in our Global Masters Advocate Hub and have fun completing our exciting challenges. 

And now it's time to announce the Winners for February 2021! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in February 2021:

🥇 @YURI MARX GOMES, Software Architect, YM Services, Brazil

🥈 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Germany

🥉  @Oliver Wilms, Integration Engineer, Take2 Consulting, USA 

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi Community!

We want to invite you to join the InterSystems Gamification Platform called Global Masters Advocate Hub!

The Global Masters Advocacy Hub is our customer engagement platform where you will be invited to have some fun completing entertaining challenges, earning badges for the contribution to Developer Community, communicating with other advocates, and accumulating points which you can redeem for a variety of rewards and special honors.

Hi Developers, 

For the first time, we announce the winners of our monthly Global Masters competition here, on the Developer Community! Please welcome our awesome January 2021 Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in January 2021:

🥇 @Yuri Marx, YM Services, Brazil

🥈 @Sergey Mikhailenko, AO Mosvodokanal, Russia 

🥉 @Yone Moreno, Everis, Spain

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi Developers,
A new exciting challenge introduced for Global Masters members of "Advocate" level and above: we invite you to record a 30-60 sec video with an answer to our question:

➥ What is the value of InterSystems IRIS to you?

🎁 Reward of your choice for doing the interview: $50 Gift Card (VISA/Amazon) or 12,000 points!

Follow this direct link to the challenge for more information. Please note that the link will work for GM members of "Advocate" level and above. More about GM levels you can read here.  

Dear Global Masters participants!
This is the moment you can share with us your honest thoughts about Global Masters. What do you like about it? What you'd like to change? 

Last year we created a roadmap based on your responses and successfully introduced new gamification system to make higher levels more achievable, new rewards, and new types of challenges. Time to make your wishes for 2021, because this program is FOR you!
Please spend 5 min and answer 11 questions about Global Masters. We guarantee that we carefully consider every single comment.

➡️ Global Masters Survey 2020 (5 min)

Hi Developers, 

We are pleased to introduce new 🎁rewards on Global Masters available for advocates of the Specialist level and above:

➡️ PRE-ORDER for Raspberry Pi 4 8GB + InterSystems IRIS Community Image Set

The set includes: MicroSD Card 64GB with Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit + Docker + InterSystems IRIS Community Image, Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, Red-white case.

Hey Developers,

Gartner Peer Insights launched a new incentive for reviews and we are glad to announce it for you. If you have not reviewed InterSystems IRIS on Gartner yet, here is your chance to make it and get two prizes:

1. 🎁 Three months free access to exclusive Gartner research from Gartner Peer Insights:

Your Peer Insights Plus access will get you the most respected research across IT, allowing you to make better decisions. You’ll get regular email alerts on vendors and updates on markets. And you’ll be able to search reviews by topic, compare unlimited numbers of vendors, and personalize vendor shortlists.

2. 🎁 $25 VISA Card from InterSystems

How it works:

Hi Community,

2020 was full of great applications! 

Almost 400 apps have already been uploaded to InterSystems Open Exchange! And 200+ apps uploaded to our applications gallery in 2020!

We're so pleased to introduce the best Open Exchange developers and the most downloaded apps that you should definitely try!

Let's take a closer look at our heroes and remarkable apps:

Hey Developers,

This post is a compilation of Top Authors, Top Experts and Top Opinion Makers of the InterSystems Developer Community in 2020. And it is a good guide "Who to Follow" in 2021.

We're glad to present these people who have contributed a lot to our community in 2020. 

Let's take a closer look at the DC Wall of Fame 2020 and greet everyone with big applause! 👏🏼 

Hi Developers,
Thanks to all who participated in our competition for your awesome ideas of applications that can be developed in 2021. See what a great list of ideas you all created! Now it's time to announce the winner:

Meet the Author of the Best Idea: @Yuri Marx 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congratulations!

💡 Yuri's idea: "HTML 5/Node.js documentation generator app, based in markdown and with the option to execute ObjectScript class methods like a developer portal. It is not to swagger API, but to Object Script".

Yuri gets our special prize: a personalized handmade leather wallet.

See the complete list of ideas in the comments to this post. You are very welcome to leave more of your ideas! We hope this list will bring inspiration to all of you.

Hi Developer! 

During the last 4 days of the year, December 28-31, 2020, the price in points for these rewards will be changed:

JBL Clip*: 8000 points instead of 12 000 points (only 2 left!)
Socks: 800 points instead of 1200 points
Car Phone Mount: 800 points instead of 1 700 points
Any 1,5 hour consultation on InterSystems product: 3 000 points instead of 5 000 points
Certification Voucher*: 8 000 points instead of 10 000 points

🏃🏼Hurry up to redeem your prize!

Even if you are not a Global Masters member yet,  but you made posts/comments on DC, or you have an application on Open Exchange - visit Global Masters to check your points, as they automatically adjusted for all your contributions.

Hi Developers,

This post is a compilation of Top Authors, Top Experts and Top Opinion Makers of the InterSystems Developer Community in 2019. And it is a good guide "Who to Follow" in 2020.

We're glad to present these people who have contributed a lot to our community in 2019. 

Let's take a closer look at the DC Wall of Fame 2019 and greet everyone with big applause! 👏🏼 

Hi Developers!

Our Developer Community is growing - so great that it's now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese languages. And it's important to announce that no matter on which DC language version you publish posts and comments - they all are counted on Global Masters Advocate Hub! 

Let's see the number of points you get  on Global Masters for your contribution: 

InterSystems is offering  a new and easy challenge as part of Global Summit 2020. As you know IRIS Data Platform 2020.4 and IRIS for Health 2020.4 are now in preview release. We are looking to improve the developer experience in migrating from earlier 2020 container release(s) of these products  to the 2020.4 preview release.
We invite you to complete a survey and get 7000 points on Global Masters🎁

Hi Community, 

You may know that you get rewarded with points on Global Masters for each your application published on Open Exchange. Recently we introduced bonus points for ZPM applications. So now, you getextra 400 points foreach ZPM application! Points are automatically adjusted. 
Check out points & available rewards on Global Masters - and see you there today!

Hello there friends, 

I am new to DC and I need to advance up my self. 

I see that we get awarded with badges and so on through that process. 

But i do not exactly get the idea of it. 

I see that we have a challenge of becoming the insightful commenter and so on. 

I would like some one to help me out with it so that i could get to the next level. 

Regards. 

Hello there Community, 

I am so pumped and curious about this platform. 

The more I search about it, the more deeper it goes just as the maze. 

I followed the following link  https://community.intersystems.com/post/global-masters-advocate-hub-sta… and  it took me to a page where i learnt more on what Global Masters is and also more about the Advocate Hub. 

But then I came across an very confusing this named as the Global Masters Gamification Platform. 

I was denied permission when i tried to access it. (Screen Shot has been attached.)

Well, my question is, are both the Global Masters and

Hi Community, 

We introduced Business Services Rewards on Global Masters, so now you have a great opportunity to highlight applications, solutions, services of your company on Developer Community and our social media, and even redeem a Google AdWords campaign for your OEX application!

The Great Outdoors campaign is running on Global Masters and we invite you to join!

The main goal of this campaign is to drive answers for unanswered questionson DC so all the members get the answers they need. Your knowledge is so important for the community. It's time to share your expertise!

Complete all 7 challenges of this campaign till September 15, 2020 to enter a raffle to win a $50 VISA Card*!

Also, you can participate even if you are not a Global Masters participant - read below how: