Slides from the launch of the NetflixOSS Cloud Prize - Updated slightly to include links to press and blog posts on the story.

1. NetflixOSS Cloud Prize
Launch
March 13th, 2013
Adrian Cockcroft

2. Announcement

3. In 2012 Netflix Engineering won this..

4. We’d like to give out prizes too
But what for?
Contributions to NetflixOSS!
Shared under Apache license
Located on github

6. How long do you have?
Entries open today
Entries close September 15th
Six months…

7. Who can win?
Almost anyone, anywhere…
Except current or former Netflix or
AWS employees

8. Who decides who wins?
Nominating Committee
Panel of Judges

9. Judges
Aino Corry
Martin Fowler
Program Chair for Qcon/GOTO Simon Wardley Chief Scientist Thoughtworks
Strategist
Werner Vogels Yury Izrailevsky
CTO Amazon Joe Weinman VP Cloud Netflix
SVP Telx, Author “Cloudonomics”

10. What are Judges Looking For?
Eligible, Apache 2.0 licensed
Original and useful contribution to NetflixOSS
Code that successfully builds and passes a test suite
A large number of watchers, stars and forks on github
NetflixOSS project pull requests
Good code quality and structure
Documentation on how to build and run it
Evidence that code is in use by other projects, or is running in production

11. What do you win?
One winner in each of the 10 categories
Ticket and expenses to attend AWS
Re:Invent 2013 in Las Vegas
A Trophy

12. How do you enter?
Get a (free) github account
Fork github.com/netflix/cloud-prize
Send us your email address
Describe and build your entry
Twitter #cloudprize

13. Award
Apache
Registration Close Entries AWS Ceremony
Github Opens Today
Github Licensed Github September 15 Dinner
Contributions Re:Invent
November
Judges Winners
$10K cash
$5K AWS
Netflix
Nominations Categories
Ten Prize Engineering
Categories
AWS
Trophy Re:Invent Conforms to Working Community
Tickets Entrants Rules Code Traction

14. After Two Weeks
• 635 forks of github.com/Netflix/Cloud-Prize
• Lots of good press coverage
– Businessweek – Ashlee Vance was there
– http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-14/netflix-announces-100-
000-in-prizes-for-coders

15. Blog Posts Keeping Story Going
• How Netflix is Ruining Cloud Computing
– Great discussion in the comments
– http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-
computing/platform/how-netflix-is-ruining-cloud-
computing/240151650
• Joe Weinman – InformationWeek
– http://www.informationweek.com/global-
cio/interviews/netflixs-cloud-contest-more-companies-
sh/240151747
• Werner Vogels
– http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/03/netflix-oss-
cloud-prize.html