August 30, 2006; 06:44 AM
JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing
applications, today announced its first ever plugin competition for
IntelliJ IDEA, the company's award-winning Java IDE (integrated
development environment). The JetBrains development team will consider
all IntelliJ IDEA-compatible plugins submitted during the contest,
dubbed the IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin Contest.
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Top entries will win their developers a combined total of US$10,000 in
cash prizes and more than US$15,000 in software licenses from JetBrains
and other Java-oriented vendors.
"Our IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin contest provides an unprecedented
opportunity for IntelliJ IDEA users and other Java developers to show
their skill and creativity," said Sergey Dmitriev, JetBrains chief
executive officer. "The entire IntelliJ IDEA community will benefit
from the influx of new and useful extensions for their IDE of choice.
This competition will inspire the best of the best to participate,
share and -- for top entries -- win substantial prizes."
All contest entries, regardless of whether they win a prize, join the
ranks of hundreds of popular IntelliJ IDEA extensions already available
in the new IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Repository (
http://plugins.intellij.net/ ).
Developers can submit plugins in any of 32 top-level categories in the
IntelliJ IDEA plugin ecosystem, and they may create plugins that fall
into new categories. Existing plugins cover a wide range of
applications, from code editing enhancement and Java EE development
facilitation all the way to just plain fun things. Entered plugins will
be judged according to their usefulness, creativity and elegance,
completeness, and code quality and documentation.
IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin Contest entrants may enter new plugins or may add
functionality to existing plugins. New functionality must be developed
specifically for this plugin competition and only the new functionality
will be judged.
Eligible plugins must be compatible with the IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 Open API
and/or 6.0 Open API (a beta version of which is available at
http://www.jetbrains.com/doublebeta.html ) and must be submitted under
a Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) open source license (for
information on this license, visit
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ) or under an Apache
License (for information visit
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html ).
IntelliJ IDEAL Plugin Contest cash prizes will include:
Grand Prize (1 awarded): $5000 (US)
Second Prize (2 awarded): $2000 (US)
Team Leader's Personal Prize (1 awarded): $1000 (US)
All winners of cash prizes will also receive personal licenses for
IntelliJ IDEA and JetBrains TMate, plus different packages of free
licenses for other Java development tools which can include these
IntelliJ IDEA Companion Products: JProfiler profiling tool for Java,
Refactor-J Java refactoring extension, Refactor-X XML refactoring
extension, and Inspection-JS JavaScript code inspection extension,
and/or these non-affiliated products: BuildDesk, a build engineering
tool for IntelliJ IDEA, and JForm Designer, a GUI design tool.
In addition to these prizes, Grand Prize winners will also receive
licenses for Atlassian's JIRA Professional and Confluence Workgroup (50
users), and Second Prize winners will receive their choice of either
JIRA Professional or Confluence Workgroup.
Three Honorable Mention awardees will receive personal licenses for
IntelliJ IDEA and JetBrains TMate, plus licenses for the Refactor-J,
Refactor- X, and Inspection-JS Companion Products.
In addition, all contest entrants whose submissions meet the contest
entry guidelines will receive a commemorative contest T-shirt.
Contest entries will be accepted beginning September 1, 2006. The
deadline for submitting completed plugins is October 31, 2006. Winners
will be announced December 11, 2006. Complete information on entering,
including official rules, eligibility, terms and conditions, and
submission procedures, can be found on the contest home page at
http://plugins.intellij.net/contest .
Third-party companies contributing software prizes include:
-- Atlassian ( http://www.atlassian.com ) -- JIRA Professional, Confluence
Workgroup
-- ej-Technologies ( http://www.ej-technologies.com ) -- JProfiler
-- FormDev Software ( http://www.jformdesigner.com ) -- JForm Designer
-- ProductiveMe ( http://www.productiveme.com ) -- BuildDesk
-- Sixth and Red River Software ( http://www.sixthandredriver.com ) -- Refactor-
J, Refactor-X, and Inspection-JS
About JetBrains
JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm
specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing
software. The company is widely known for its innovative, award-winning
Java(TM) integrated development environment, IntelliJ(TM) IDEA (see
details on the Web at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea ), ReSharper and
dotTrace Profiler for C# developers (see
http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper , http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler
). JetBrains maintains its headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with
its R&D labs located in St. Petersburg, Russia and Boston,
Massachusetts. For more information, see http://www.jetbrains.com .