Save the date! March 16th, 9 am EST | 2 pm CET we will host the first Thursday Tea with Global Masters! ☕ 

This is a 60-min fun & networking event, as well as a short update and Q&A about the Global Masters program.

>> Please prepare a short 1-2 min presentation about yourself for this event - even better with some pictures 📷  we will also make 5-min breakout rooms to discuss your favorite hobby. 

RSVP in this challenge on Global Masters. 

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)

Hi Community, 

We are gathering again for the next Community Roundtable. Many of you asked for a roundtable about AL / ML, and we are delighted to bring such a roundtable to you!

Our invited expert from InterSystems: @Thomas Dyar Product Specialist - Machine Learning.

Join our 60-min discussion, prepare your questions, and use cases! There will be a short demo as well.

UPDATE: the recording is available here.

Hi Community, 
We launched an integration between Open Exchange and Global Masters. Now, when you leave reviews for applications on OEX - you are getting points and badges automatically, no need for any extra steps! You get:

💰 200 points automatically for each published review on Open Exchange.

🏆 Bonus points and badges for a number of reviews:

Hi Community, 
Let's meet virtually at our first Community Roundtable in 2023!  Join the discussion on best practices for developing in VS Code/Studio, use cases, and Q&A.
📅 Date: January 26
🕑 Time: 9:00 am ET | 3:00 pm CET

UPDATE: the roundtable recording is available here.

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

Hi Community, 

We're excited to announce a new ↔ Developers Connections activity on Global Masters.

Do you have a tricky question/topic you wish to discuss with someone with hands-on experience? We want to make it easy for you to network, brainstorm ideas and discuss questions with your peers. 

Now you can request a connection on a certain topic via Global Masters challenge, and also reply to others' requests! Check out the "Connections" channel

InterSystems team is heading up to our next hackathon stop - European Healthcare Hackathon in Prague Nov 25-27.

Registration closes on November 20 - so don't hesitate to register. You can participate online or in-person! 

InterSystems will introduce the "Innovate with FHIR" challenge with prizes for the best use of InterSystems FHIR services.

Hi Community, 

Let's meet virtually at our Third Community Roundtable! This will be a 60-min discussion on a given topic: Developing with Python. 

Register through >> this Global Masters challenge << 

UPDATE: the roundtable recording is available here.

Hi Developers! 

InterSystems continues the Developer Meetup event series. The next one will happen on November 17th from 5:30 pm-8 pm ET in Boston, MA, USA.
At this meetup, you will learn more about Kubernetes, Mirantis Lens tool, and how to run Lens with InterSystems IRIS IKO (InterSystems Kubernetes Operator).

Food and drink will be provided. 

> Register here <

Agenda:

Hi Community,
Watch the recording of the Second Community Roundtable: "What is the best source control system for development with InterSystems IRIS?" 

Some great discussions have been started during this roundtable. We invite you to continue these discussions. in the comments to this post.

Tell us, which source control you use and why – in the comments to this post. 

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. 

> Go to Global Masters <

Hi Community, 

Let me introduce the latest update on the Global Masters gamification hub! 
We reorganized the challenges under the "Challenge" tab - now all the challenges are sorted into channels (folders). We hope that will help new people navigate the hub and easier find the most relevant challenges. Home page remains the same. Check it out! 

If you have any feedback / ideas - please let us know :) 

Not a Global Masters member yet? Log in using your InterSystems SSO credentials.

Hi Community, 

Let's meet virtually at our Second Community Roundtable!
This will be a 45-min friendly discussion on a given topic: What is the best source control system for development with InterSystems IRIS. 

>> Register here <<

Hi Community, 

Join us for an InterSystems Developer Meetup during TechCrunch Disrupt 2022!

We’ll be meeting on Wednesday, October 19th at Bartlett Hall, located at 242 O’Farrell St. (just a few short blocks from the Moscone Center) starting at 6 pm through 8:30 pm PT, where speakers will discuss how developers can bring the code to the data, not data to the code with Embedded Python and Integrated ML on InterSystems IRIS.

Food and drinks will be served accompanied by discussions. 

Agenda:

Meet InterSystems at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 - the biggest event for startups! 

This year we will host 4 roundtables at TechCrunch as well as a developer meetup in San Francisco on October 19! 

At TechCrunch we invite you to join our roundtables to discuss the following topics:

Hi Community! InterSystems will be a technical sponsor at CalHacks hackathon by UC Berkeley, October 14-16 2022. 
We can't reveal our challenge at the moment, but as a little spoiler -  it is related to healthcare ;)
The team from our side @Evgeny Shvarov @Dean Andrews @Regilo Regilio Guedes de Souza @Akshat Vora and more!
Join InterSystems in this fun and inspirational event - apply to be a mentor, volunteer, or judge here 

Hi Community, 
Let's meet virtually at our first Community Roundtable! This will be a 45-min friendly discussion on a given topic: VSCode vs Studio. 
Imagine that we just gathered together to share our thoughts, experiences, tips, and tricks. If you want to discuss specific questions within a given topic - please share them in the comments.
Watch recording:

Hi Community! 
Are you in Dubai on October 10-13? Join us at the Global DevSlam conference for developers with 15,000 participants expected in person!
📍Let's meet here: Hall 9, Stand № H9-E30
🌟 We will host the event: "The hands-on workshop on InterSystems IRIS Data Platform"
Speaker: @Guillaume Rongier, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
October 10, 2pm - 3:30pm 
Register here 
❕We have free promo passes for our Community Members, partners, and customers. Please drop me a line if you are willing to attend!

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

Which one did you like the most? Let us know in the comments!

1. Meme author: @Kurro Lopez  
 

Fall Hackathon Season is ready now! 

InterSystems will take part in HackMIT hackaton, a long-weekend hackaton organized by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where thousands of students come together to work on cool software and/or hardware projects. This year the HackMIT is in-person again, at the MIT campus, and will take place during the first weekend of October.
This year the main tracks are Education, Sustainability, New Frontiers, and Entertainment.
InterSystems challenge will be related to 1 or 2 of the main tracks and will be revealed on September 28.
Stay tuned! 

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, 

In April 2022 InterSystems participated as a Gold Sponsor in MIT Hacking Medicine GrandHack – MIT's annual flagship hackathon introducing healthcare challenges to be solved by engineers, clinicians, designers, developers, and business people. This year we introduced the "Best Use of InterSystems FHIR Services" challenge (read more here) and awarded prizes to the three winning teams.  

⏯ Sharing this recap video from MIT Hacking Medicine GrandHack so you could also catch the vibe of the event! 

A Minute Of Laughter on the Developer Community with #InterSystemsMemes

Meme author: @Mathieu Delagnes 

Have your own idea for a meme? Submit in this challenge on Global Masters.

Hi Community!
We hope you have an exciting and inspirational summer (or winter, depending on where are you located)! 

Today we launch the Inquisitive Summer on the Developer Community. Which means:

Hi Developers!

We're happy to announce the first Developers Random Coffee launched on Global Masters. The idea is to create new impactful connections between Developer Community members. 

The mechanic is simple:

✅ You will receive a direct message on Global Masters with the name of your Random Coffee partner and link to his/her GM profile.

✅ Your task is to message your partner and schedule 15-min online call to get to know each other.

✅ Don't forget to take a screenshot of the online call meeting - you will be able to upload it in the challenge and get 500 bonus points on Global Masters! 

Ready to join Random Coffee in July? Complete >> this challenge << till July 19! 

Hi Community,

We are excited to announce that InterSystems Developers Meetups are finally back in person!

The first Python-related meetup will take place on July 21 at 6:00 at Democracy Brewing, Boston, MA. There will be 2-3 short presentations related to Python, Q&A, networking sessions as well as free beer with snacks and brewery tours.

AGENDA:

Hi Community, 

We are glad to announce that Developer Community in French is now connected to Global Masters, which means members of DC FR will automatically get points & badges for their contributions.

Hi Community, 
We prepared a fun online game for those who will be at the Global Summit in-person, and those new members who will join the Community at the event. If you are at the Summit but do not see the game - please let me know, I will add you 
You can enter the game and grab the prizes right at the Developer Community booth - 5th Floor, Tech Exchange room.

Enter to win some nice prizes: Bellroy Computer Backpack, Umbrella, Amazon Kindle, Apple AirPods Pro, Coursera subscription and others!

UPD: check out the Greetings video here
Hi Community!
As you know, this year Global Summit is back in-person. We really want to see everyone there! 

Not all of the Community members can attend (me either!), so we decided to produce a cool VIDEO with Greetings from Our Community Members 🎥 
Let's join virtually this great event from all around the World!🌏 

⬆️ Upload in this challenge a short (2-3 sec) VIDEO of you saying "Hi from your country🙌" to our Community Members. So, we could combine it with the other videos from our members and present it on Global Summit 2022. You can also just send me a link to a shared file in DM.

Deadline: June 18, Friday, till the end of the day!

See you there!