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: 

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. 

Hi Community, 

We've launched a nice competition on Global Masters under the "Season of Giving" campaign, which I hope will bring inspiration to all of you!

We inviting you to share your task ideas for new applications that could be developed on InterSystems Technology. Let's enrich our Open Exchange apps gallery with great applications in 2021!

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 get extra 400 points for each ZPM application! Points are automatically adjusted. 
Check out points & available rewards on Global Masters - and see you there today!

Hi Developers, 
We invite you to write a review on the InterSystems IRIS on Capterra. The first 100 reviewers will get a $20 USD gift card from Capterra and $25 VISA card from InterSystems for the published review!

See the rules below. 

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 questions on 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:
 

Hi Community, 
As you may know, on Global Masters you can redeem a consultation with InterSystems expert on any InterSystems product: InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, Interoperability (Ensemble), IRIS Analytics (DeepSee), Caché, HealthShare.
And we have exciting news for you: now these consultations available in the following languages:  English, Portuguese, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese.  Also! The duration is extended to 1.5 hours for your deep dive into the topic.
 

Hi Community, 
We recently launched Technology Quizzes on Global Masters! Every 1-2 weeks a new small quiz will be published. Join the game to learn, earn points, and have some fun. Filter challenges by type "Quizzes" to view the quiz question of the week:

Also! You can suggest your quiz question for other developers and get 200 points for the idea, and 100 points more after we publish it! Submit ideas in this challenge.
Note: if you are new to Global Masters, Quiz Questions will be unlocked after you gather at least 200 points. That's easy - just complete a couple of available challenges! 

Hey Developers, 

Please welcome a new set of Global Masters badges for ✔️Accepted Answers on Developer Community! 

As you may remember, you get +150 points on Global Masters each time your answer marked as accepted on DC. And now we have a special set of badges and additional points for a number of accepted answers!

And...

Hi Community!

We're pleased to invite all DC members to the InterSystems Global Masters Gamification Platform to get points and prizes for your contribution to the Community, learn with selected content about InterSystems technology, network with your peers and have fun!

▶️  What is Global Masters?

Global Masters is a gamification platform, where you learn technology, complete tech quizzes, watch videos, etc. You will be completing challenges (tasks) related to ISC technology, earning badges & points, and exchanging points for a variety of rewards.

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,

As you know we have a Global Masters program — InterSystems Data Platform Advocacy Hub. 

All Global Masters members (Advocates) can achieve various levels of advocacy which depends on contributions on Developer Community and activity in Global Masters. Every new level opens new types of challenges (tasks) and new types of rewards.

Recently we introduced a new level of advocacy with the name "Ambassador".  Ambassadors and VIPs will have unique privileges and opportunities. 

Hey Developers,

We invite you to review the InterSystems Caché or IRIS on the Gartner Peer Insights and get two $25 VISA Cards - one from Gartner Peer Insights and one from InterSystems! 
We had this promotion in 2018-2019, and now it's so good to announce it also for 2020!
 

See the rules below.

Hi Community!

Thank you for being a part of the InterSystems Open Exchange! We want to know what you like about Open Exchange and how we can make it better in 2020. 

Could you please go through this short survey which will let us know what do you think.

➡️ Open Exchange Survey 2019 (2 minutes, 7 questions)

Hey Developers!

Advent of Code 2019 is over! Thanks for participating in our COS marathon!

And now we're pleased to introduce the winners and distribute all the prizes! 

Big applause goes to these winners: 

     Kevin An (w/ repo)

     Fabian Haupt (w/ repo )

     Peter Steiwer (w/ repo )

And here's the final Leaderboard:

Hi Community!

Thank you so much for being with InterSystems Developer Community yet another year! 

We want to know how helpful the Developer Community is for you today.

Could you please go through this short survey which will let us know what do you think and what could be improved.
➡️ Developer Community Survey 2019 (4 min)
 

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  ✨

Sincerely, 

Your InterSystems Developer Community Team

Hi Community, 

Great news for all Global Masters lovers! 

Now you can redeem a Certification Voucher for 10,000 points!

Voucher gives you 1 exam attempt for any exam available at the InterSystems exam system. We have a limited edition of 10 vouchers, so don't hesitate to get yours!

Hi Developers,

New challenge on Global Masters: Review InterSystems IRIS on G2 and get 3000 points!
The page for InterSystems IRIS is new on G2,  and we need so much your voices and experience to be shared with the worldwide audience!
Write a review on G2 using this link, complete the challenge on Global Masters and get 3000 points after your review is published!

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!

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! 🎉

It’s no secret that the InterSystems Global Masters program is integrated with Developer Community, Open Exchange, and Ideas Portal. Whenever you contribute to any of these platforms, you automatically earn points and badges on Global Masters. 

We’ve created a short guide to help you discover the best ways to earn points on Global Masters:

Hi Community!

In this post, you will find info about the Levels of the Developer Community & InterSystems Global Masters Advocate Hub.

All Global Masters members (Advocates) can achieve various levels of advocacy which depends on contributions  Developer Community and activity in Global Masters. 

Every new level opens new types of challenges/tasks and new types of rewards. 

To level up, you should earn a number of badges from the next level.  Badges can be earned for completing various challenges at the Global Master.

Now there are  6 Levels:

1. Insider (you start here)
2. Advocate
3. Specialist 
4. Expert
5. Ambassador
6. Legend

➡️  Place the mouse cursor over the badge to see how to earn it.

Take part in the Winter Champions friendly competition on InterSystems Global Masters AdvocateHub! Let's have some fun on sunny and snowy slopes!

Hi Community!

Here you will find info about badges of the Developer Community & InterSystems Global Masters Advocacy Hub, and the complete list of badges with descriptions on how to get them. 

Please note: our current vendor doesn't have Levels functionality yet, but we are working on bringing it back.