#Global Masters

Hi, Community!

This year we again introduced three annual badges on Global Masters Advocacy Hub to let you remember how much you contributed to Developer Community in 2017. Here they are:

• DC Best-Selling Author 2017
• DC Expert 2017
• DC Opinion Leader 2017

It's time to announce the Winners for April 2022! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in April 2022:

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

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

🥉 @Javier Lorenzo Mesa, Analyst Developer, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, Spain

 Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below. 

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

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

🥇 @Danny Wijnschenk, Application Developer/Owner, Winfo, Belgium

🥈 @Lorenzo Scalese, Solution Architect, Zorgi, Belgium

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

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

 Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

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 Developers!

Check out our new Ready, Set, Go fun campaign on Global Masters where you can swim 🏊‍♂️  ,  bike 🚴‍♀️  , and run 🏃‍♂️  your way through eight challenges to collect points and earn bragging rights.

Don't miss the opportunity to tell us a story of why you started programming and read stories of other participants, share with us the hardest part in coding for you and even leave a review for any of the Open Exchange applications and get bonus points 🌟 . 

So, are you ready?😉 🏁  

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

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

🥇 @Muhammad Waseem, HIS Team Lead, International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
🥈 @Heloisa Ramalho,  Software Developer in the Application Services, InterSystems, USA
🥉 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria

   Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi Community,

We're super excited to share with you a special session from Global Summit 2022! And it is so special to us because it is about us and with us! Please welcome:

🤩 InterSystems Developer Ecosystem @ Global Summit 2022 🤩 

Hi Community,

New reward available on Global Masters Advocate Hub! Please welcome: 

⚡️ Your Webinar supported by InterSystems ⚡️

Would you like to hold a professional webinar for developers and tell about your solution/tool and your company services? 

Redeem this prize for 3,000 points and we will help you to organize it! 

Hi Community!
We’ve just added some 🎁 new rewards on Global Masters!
Take a moment to explore the Rewards section. Exciting Spring Rewards – Grab Yours now!

Please note that our prize selection varies by region and country. We kindly ask you to review the available options for your location. 

 
Not a Global Masters member yet? Join here using your InterSystems SSO credentials.

August was an inspiring month for our Community 🙌

A huge thank you to all who joined the August Article Bounty 💙

Your contributions keep our knowledge base growing and make it easier for others to learn, solve problems, and get inspired.

Special shout-out to those who took the time to write brand-new articles and share their expertise (each received 5,000 points 🎉):

• @Iryna Mykhailova  >> "A beginner's guide to creating SQL tables and seeing them as classes"
• @Robert.

New contest — new chance to earn points on Global Masters!

7,000 points for each walkthrough video submission 🧐

What this is about:
We're looking for feedback on the Interoperability UI in the latest release, 2025.3.
You can check what's new in this recent announcement by @Aya Heshmat 
How to take part: 

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

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

🥇@Muhammad Waseem

🥇@Robert Cemper

🥈@Julian Matthews

🥉@Eduard Lebedyuk

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Let’s spotlight the brilliant authors and contributors of our November Article Bounty! 💙
Thank you to everyone who took part and shared their knowledge with the community.

A special shout-out goes to those who created brand-new articles and contributed their expertise — each received 5,000 points 🎉

@Zion Amsalem -- "Consuming REST-APIs for dummies (beginner-friendly)"
@Robert Cemper -- "Network Debugging for Beginners - 1"
@Iryna Mykhailova -- "Connecting C# to InterSystems IRIS via ODBC"
@Vachan C Rannore -- "My experience with APIs and POS integration."
@Padmaja Konduru -- "Production Terminal Commands"

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, 

Thank you for spending another great year with us on Global Masters. We hope you enjoy the program!

This is the moment you can share your thoughts about Global Masters. What do you like about it? What you'd like to change?

Time to make your wishes for 2023, because this program is FOR you💫

We will build a roadmap for 2023 based on your answers, and we will continue working hard to make it the best developer gamification program!

➡️ Global Masters Survey 2022 (5 min, 10 questions)

A Minute Of Laughter on the Developer Community with #InterSystemsMemes.

Here is the Holiday edition of the memes sent/created by Developer Community members!
Enjoy the memes and don't forget to check our Winter Holiday challenges on Global Masters (available till Jan 2).

1. Meme author: @Udo Leimberger

You’ve probably already seen that the September Article Bounty is in full swing! 🚀

You can either submit an existing up-to-date article on one of the topics and earn 30 points,
or write a brand-new article from scratch and get a bounty of 🏆 5,000 points once it’s approved! 🎉

Hi, Community!

Hope you have already put in your schedule the visit to InterSystems Global Summit 2017 which will take place on 10-13 of September in remarkable JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa.

This year we have Experience Lab, The Unconference, and 50 more other sessions, regarding performance, cloud, scalability, FHIR, high availability and other solutions and best practices.

Hi Community, 
We have launched new challenges and badges on Global Masters: now you can submit bugs or pull requests for Open Exchange Applications and get points!

@Admin GlobalMasters 

can my old account be merged with my new account?

Hi Everyone! 
Join us on Global Masters for a fun and spooky celebration of the Halloween season. 
Complete all challenges in "It's a Halloween season 🎃" channel to enter a raffle for our new prizes 🎁 - a plush blanket and a laptop desk. 

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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.

Thank you to everyone who joined our Spooky Stories Contest 👻 on Global Masters and shared your eerie tales with us! We loved diving into your mysterious, thrilling, and downright spooky stories. It was tough to pick just one winner, but we finally have a standout story to celebrate.

 And the winners are... 

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.

Hey Community!

It's time again for good tidings for you on Global Masters Advocacy Hub! 

New branded limited edition rewards are waiting for YOU!

Be first to redeem our new prizes! Please welcome: 

Hi Community!

Starting from January 2026, developers who turn product ideas from the Ideas Portal into real, working solutions with be awarded with 7,000 points on Global Masters and a badge.

✨ What you get:
🧙‍♂️ Idea to Reality Wizard badge — awarded once to community members who implement a product idea suggested at the Ideas Portal
⭐ 7,000 Global Masters points — awarded for every implemented idea from the "Community Opportunity" list.
 

Details: 

Hey, Developer Community!

We’ve launched a brand-new activity on Global Masters — the Article Bounty!
It’s your chance to share your expertise, help fellow developers, and, of course, earn points while doing it.

👉 Join the August Article Bounty on Global Masters here

Earlier, we launched the Submit an Article Idea challenge — where Global Masters members could suggest new articles, tutorials, how-tos, and more. We received an overwhelming number of fantastic ideas! 
👉  Now, once a month, we’ll publish a list of 10 in-demand topics requested by the community.
You can choose a topic from the list, write an article about it, and earn bounty of 🏆 5,000 points when the article is approved.

We're excited to announce the launch of the Community Roundtable series!

Roundtable sessions are for you to learn new things and connect with other Community members. Each month we'll select a new topic, provide an overview and select a specific date and time for this event.

We drafted a couple of topics for the first roundtable to choose from, but most of all we want to hear what you'd love to discuss! 

Navigate >> to this challenge << on Global Masters to choose the topic and suggest yours.

UPD: Challenge is closed. Thank you for voting and ideas! We will be announcing the topic for the first session shortly.

Hi Community!

Black Friday is here and this year, it’s all about discovering the best deals on Global Masters! Complete a short set of fun challenges, learn a few new things and collect extra points along the way.

From November 20 to November 30, join our Black Friday adventure: Find your deal on Global Masters.
 
🎯 During this period only:

• All asks which have a black cover will award double points during this period
• Inviting new Developer Community members through the Referral Program will also give 2× points when the invitee registers on DC.
• Everyone who completes the Black Friday journey will enter the raffle for a special prize - Prixton 1080P Matisse Mini Projector! 🎁

Don’t miss your chance! The Black Friday hunt ends November 30.

Hi Community, 

We are pleased to announce the Global Summit 2019 social media contest called "Twitter Rush"! 

Help us share Global Summit 2019 with the world by tweeting live about the keynotes, breakout sessions, newest technologies and awesome moments as they happen! To participate in the contest, post your updates to Twitter with the hashtag #GlobalSummit19 between the dates September, 19 – September, 25 2019.

Our #1 social media Ambassador will win a 10.5-inch iPad Air Wi‑Fi 64GB!

🎉Check out the winner announcement below! 🎉