Liferay Code Camp 2011 Rules

1. The competition commences on 20 Oct 2011 and the final commit date should be 10 Apr 2012.
2. The award ceremony will be at the Liferay Symposium on 17 May 2012 in Budapest.
3. Teams can be from any university or college within Europe.
4. All team members should hold student status at time of event completion.
5. An individual student can also enter the event as a contender or a team could register with 2 students (OR) Team strengths can vary from 1 or 2 students.
6. Criteria for a successful project is:
   1. Pre-define your project goal at the initial mentor meet on 24 Oct to check feasibility of the project and be assigned to a mentor.
   2. Show continuous progress during the competition.
   3. Communicate with your mentor on a bi-weekly basis about the progress.
   4. The project has to be completed
      1. by the team members only, however reasearch through external sources (message boards, google, etc.) is permitted.
      2. by 10 Apr 2012.
      3. by achieving the pre-defined goal.
7. To win a trip to LA

1.  Be creative.
2. Be dedicated.
3. Write a useful and easily usable program.
4. Communicate what you are doing with the world.

8. Tasks can be selected from the Activities page, but other ideas are always welcome.
9. All teams will need to submit a one-page document on the overview of the project chosen.
10. Assigned mentors will provide feedback on the project description and judge if it is suitable or would need more information to compete for the ultimate prize.
11. There will be regular web meets between the mentors and their team. These will be broadcasted and recorded by WebEx; these sessions will help guide the projects in the right path.
12. Mentors will choose a repository to store all development codes for the projects undertaken.
13. All codes submitted by the teams will be owned by Liferay and if they are compliant with company standards, they will be included in any one of Liferay's future products.
14. English will be the basic language of the competition. However, upon request mentors will consult in Hungarian (all documentation should be in English as the judges are non-Hungarian developers).
15. The teams have to work with the technologies Liferay provides (e.g. Java, YUI, etc.)
16. Coding standards should follow Liferay's coding standards. To learn more please visit the link below. http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Development+Style