[iot-wg] Announcing Open IoT Challenge 3.0

[Roxanne Joncas <roxanne.joncas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

The Open IoT Challenge 3.0 has been announced! Last year's Challenge was very successful and we are doing it again.

The Challenge encourages IoT enthusiasts and developers to build innovative solutions for the Internet of Things using open standards and open source technology. The top 10 submissions will be supported with hardware development kits and the final winners will receive special prizes. Thank you to bitreactive, Bosch Software Innovations, Eurotech, MicroEJ, and Red Hat for sponsoring the challenge!

The submission deadline for solution proposals is November 25, 2016. Participants will have until the end of February to build their IoT solutions and the winners will be announced at the beginning of March.

Please encourage your communities to submit a solution proposal! Here is a sample email you can use to promote the challenge:

The Eclipse IoT working group announced the third edition of the Open IoT Challenge (http://iot.eclipse.org/open-iot-challenge/)!

The Challenge encourages Internet of Things (IoT) enthusiasts and developers to build innovative solutions for the IoT using open standards and open source technology. The previous edition yielded many great solutions(https://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20160310_iotchallenge_winners2016.php)! The top 10 submissions will be supported with hardware development kits and the final winners will receive special prizes.

Participants are required to submit a proposal (http://iot.eclipse.org/open-iot-challenge/) for their solution before November 25, 2016. All participants will then have until the end of February to build their IoT solutions. The winners will be announced the beginning of March 2017.

Regards,

Roxanne
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Roxanne Joncas
Eclipse Foundation