Who Wants a Free Web Application?

January 23, 2009 · Published by

Kris Wallsmith

Looking for something to do with all that brain power? We're happy to announce an upcoming community event that will harness the power of the symfony community toward a variety of social causes. Help us get the word out!

This event will take on the basic structure of other 48 hour web application development competitions, such as Rails Rumble, but with a special twist unique to symfony. The applications we create during the course of the competition will be gifted to different socially-minded organizations around the world. Once the fun is over, our work will live on and hopefully do a lot of good.

A Call for Causes

The first thing we need is to determine who we're working for. If you are or know of a socially-minded organization that could benefit from an interactive web application, we want to hear from you.

Please submit a brief proposal for the application you would like built that includes the following:

A description of your organization (200 words or less)
A description of the application you would like built (400 words or less)

Please keep in mind these applications will be built in 48 hours or less by small development teams. If you're not sure how to gauge the effort involved in your proposal, just send in your idea and we'll help refine a reasonable scope.

Submissions should be sent to me, kris.wallsmith[at]symfony-project.com.

Yeah, yeah. When do we code?

We are still in the early stages of planning for this event, but we want to get the ball rolling. We'll be opening submissions for development teams shortly; the competition will happen sometime this spring.

In the meantime you can help us out with any of the following:

Spread the word Tweet! Blog! Vlog! Or, if you have marketing expertise and want to join the team, hit me up.
Sponsors We will need sponsors to help with hosting and prizes.
A name (!) Any ideas?

Published in #Community

Help the Symfony project!

As with any Open-Source project, contributing code or documentation is the most common way to help, but we also have a wide range of sponsoring opportunities.

Comments

Fabian said on Jan 23, 2009 at 15:35

name: symfony (in) concert!

denderello said on Jan 23, 2009 at 15:44

name: symfony battle of orchestras

zero0x said on Jan 23, 2009 at 16:13

'concert' is great name :)

aimxhaisse said on Jan 23, 2009 at 16:35

That sounds very good :)

This is a very good idea! For Symfony and the chosen community, bu also for developers in so far as this will be an excellent way to share experiences with other developers.

I think that's something missing at that moment, I haven't seen any common projects developed by the community (sorry for my ignorance if there are some).

fz said on Jan 23, 2009 at 17:11

Name: symfray

gravity said on Jan 23, 2009 at 18:23

Name: "symfony conducted" / "symfony conductors"

gravity said on Jan 23, 2009 at 18:36

"symfony score"

Mom said on Jan 23, 2009 at 18:53

THAT'S MY BOY :) :)

THAT'S GREAT--GOOD FOR YOU!!

n8v said on Jan 23, 2009 at 21:30

+1 for the "concert" concept... maybe "symfony: live in concert" ?

follover said on Jan 23, 2009 at 21:33

#10

Great idea. "Symfony live" or "Symfony sprint"

Robert Speer said on Jan 24, 2009 at 00:41

#11

www.sierra-bravo.com is on our second year of hosting an event very similar to this.
http://www.f1webchallenge.com

We kick off Feb. 28th, there's still some slots available for dev's of all frameworks & languages.

Joe Entrepreneur said on Jan 24, 2009 at 03:11

#12

Will the competition be about only building new apps or it can involve building cool new feature for existing apps as well?
Like our for social marketplace http://www.onista.com we are thinking of many building cool features.
One of the such features can be built in 48 hours by small team.

Info appreciated,

Erubiel Valladares said on Jan 24, 2009 at 05:46

#13

MY IDEA FOR NAME, HOW ABOUT:

Comunity action in symfony

Ad van der Veer said on Jan 24, 2009 at 10:20

#14

How about:

"Symfony Jam" or "Symfony Harmony" i indeed like the concert / togetherness idea

COil said on Jan 24, 2009 at 12:40

#15

Good idea ! :)

Thomas Sandford said on Jan 24, 2009 at 14:16

#16

In order to meet the (praiseworthy) social aims, some thought will be needed as to how the applications will be supported beyond the 48 hour (Symfonietta?).

Kris said on Jan 24, 2009 at 15:25

#17

@Robert - I guess the twist is not unique to symfony!

@Joe - This is being discussed

@Thomas - There will be requirements for documentation and automated tests that should address this important concern

@Mom - **blush**

Nils said on Jan 24, 2009 at 16:04

#18

COOOL !

name : SEVENT - Symfony Event

Altrano said on Jan 25, 2009 at 00:04

#19

askeet, jobeet, why not symfeet :)

Fred said on Jan 25, 2009 at 00:25

#20

+1 Symfeet

tavo said on Jan 25, 2009 at 01:47

#21

Yeah... or maybe Symfoneet?

pd: Symfony rules!

Johnny said on Jan 25, 2009 at 10:20

#22

Will these sites be available to the public as an example of how an entire Symfony project can be made, or will they not be released?

pacogliss said on Jan 26, 2009 at 08:23

#23

name : "SoliFony : let's play together !"

adrive said on Jan 26, 2009 at 10:05

#24

+1 for the Symfoneet

lking said on Jan 26, 2009 at 12:02

#25

+1 for Symfoneet

denderello said on Jan 26, 2009 at 12:16

#26

I like the "let's play together!" slogan and the name "Symfoneet". How about this?

"symfoneet - let's play together!"

web entrepreneur said on Jan 26, 2009 at 13:56

#27

I love to have this free web application.

web entrepreneur

Gaspard said on Jan 26, 2009 at 17:11

#28

What would be fantastic, in order to encourage multi-ethnic geek exchanges would be to pick up randomly the team partners :-)

aimxhaisse said on Jan 26, 2009 at 17:13

#29

@gaspard: That would be great :)

NiKo said on Jan 26, 2009 at 20:54

#30

To me, "concerto" sounds great

Kris said on Jan 26, 2009 at 21:48

#31

In response to a number of emails I've received: there is no requirement that organizations have any sort of official non-profit status to participate as a "cause."

Lucas said on Jan 27, 2009 at 14:16

#32

I'm think "SymfoWork" sounds good !!!

OrangeD said on Jan 27, 2009 at 16:17

#33

I like the idea of a concert.

symfoneet is continuous, that's true - but it sounds geeky ;)

old guy said on Jan 27, 2009 at 17:02

#34

Symphony Comes Alive
Symphony Alive II
Symphony Double Live Gonzo

Barak said on Jan 28, 2009 at 03:52

#35

Nice strategy and online offer! How about the Public Forum like this one here?....
By: publicforum.weebly.com

Christopher Parker said on Jan 28, 2009 at 16:09

#36

I'd suggest projects to extend civiCRM, an open-source non-profit CRM used by a wide variety of non-profits (including me).

Contributing to civiCRM means the benifit of the work will go to many organizations, rather than just one.

In particular, things I'd like to see (just my own personal hopes among many worthy goals): closer integration between civiCRM and Joomla user tables (for log-on and access control and community builder and forum intigration) . . . a volunteer management module . . . a package of customizable on-line forms to make the program more out-of-the-box ready to go.

fullo said on Jan 30, 2009 at 12:12

#37

it should be great to have an application such as doodle.ch or eventbride to organize conference, dinners and any kind of events (maybe the next symfony camp too ;) ).

Imho is not a too big task but surely will be usefull.

denderello said on Jan 31, 2009 at 11:40

#38

maybe a mixxt community(mixxt.com)? many barcamps in germany are organised via mixxt.