Frenzy Challenge 3 - Freestyle it! Impress us with your skills! Develop a cool Kaltura-based app | Open Source Video

Challenge III: Freestyle it! Impress us with your skills! Develop a cool Kaltura-based application and you could win a Wii.

Get Kaltura Certified

Kaltura Certified applications go through a short procedure of validation, QA and closure - to provide the users with a way to determine what applications are secure, reliable, and are easy to use, integrate and extend.

Consider the certification as a stamp of a quality assured, ready to use application. This is not to say that non-certified apps are no good, they just might need some additional tweaking.

The certification process takes between a few days to two weeks, after which - we will contact you by email and your application will be marked certified.

To win the challenge, your project doesn't have to be Kaltura Certified - but, if you do get certified - we might even add it to our core platform, which means that there would be money it in for you as well!

Submissions are closed - many thanks to the developers who participated!

This challenge gives you the opportunity to show us how creative you can be.

Here you can develop whatever your heart desires as long as it’s related to video. And hey – if we really like it, we might even add it to our core platform and you could monetize on it!

The winner will be chosen by our esteemed judges and announced on November 10th

The challenge judges

Matt Asay, VP Business Development at Alfresco and CNet Blogger: The Open Road
Christopher Blizzard, Open Source Evangelist, Mozilla Corporation
Dr. Shay David, VP Business and Community Development, Kaltura
Zohar Babin aka Kalturian, Director of Community and Developer Relations, Kaltura.

The rules are simple

Develop an interactive / collaborative video project based on Kaltura
There are no limits on the platform, language or design – go wild!
Submit your project here
Wait for the results on November 10th when we announce the winners

We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with, in the meantime, here are some ideas that we thought of to get your brain wheels turning:

An iPhone application to play H.264 Kaltura videos with collaborative features such as sharing your iPhone recorded videos with others
Kaltura Dynamic Player (KDP) module to provide game interactivity within the video
Additional plugins to the Kaltura Advanced Editor (KAE), create your own custom video transitions, overlays or effects
A customized gallery that integrates with the KDP
OpenX integration to KalturaCE to provide in-house ad serving for the self-hosted Open Source KalturaCE server
Create your own AIR® Desktop Video Player or port the KDP to run on the desktop

Timeline

July 22nd - Challenge begins
October 20th - Final date for submission - Competition closes, Voting continues
November 11th - Winners will be announced at a cool Kaltura developers meetup in New York!

Guidelines for an impressive solution

Upload your code to the Kaltura.org repository under your project folder (details on the project page).
Take a look at some of the existing Kaltura Applications to get an idea of certified projects – the KDP project, WordPress and Drupal extensions are a good examples.
Create a short and easy installation wizard. Consider short and understandable user flows.
Create a full integration, embed and usage guide, and consider various ways the application can be extended by others.
Discuss it with the community, search for ideas out-of-the-box, answer a real need.