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Want to win an iPad 2? Then be a part of the SugarCRM bug fix contest!

15 Jun, 2011
Posted By: John Mertic

Want one of these? Then join in the SugarCRM Bug Fix contest!

For those of you who have those annoying bugs in SugarCRM that they’d love to have fixed once and for all, now’s your chance. We are holding a bug fix contest starting next week, and the person submitting the most number of bug fixes during that period will walk away with a brand new Apple iPad 2. If you come just short of that mark, we’ll also have 2nd and 3rd place prizes of $200 and $100 Apple Gift Cards.

All you need to do is submit fixes to bugs created before June 1st, 2011, which follow our coding guidelines and come with proper unit or functional tests, to our public GitHub repository between June 19th and July 2nd to qualify. You must also have a contribution agreement on file with us in order for your fixes to be accepted, which you can print off from here and sign and email back to me at jmertic@sugarcrm.com. And this contest is open to everyone who is not a SugarCRM employee, so any community member/partner/customer can join in the fun.

Check out the official rules here here for more information. And you can learn more about the contribution process from the video from this month’s community webinar.

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  • http://www.objectivelytrue.com/ Jackson

    “a contribution agreement” which you can print off and sign….where?

    Also, clue me in when you’re giving away an Android tablet (maybe an EE transformer?).  That just might be enough to get my attention.

  • John Mertic

    Added the link into the post, here it is as well:

    http://www.sugarforge.org/content/community/participate/agreement.html

    Thanks for catching that @openid-87739:disqus !

  • Bob

    Is there a way to get a list of open workable bugs?

  • John Mertic

    I’m working with our internal apps team to make this easier, but right now just searching for bugs by keyword and looking for any one with the status of ‘New’ should work.

  • F Grande

    John,
    is it only for public repo or also for partners repos?

  • John Mertic

    Either repo counts. The contest is open for all non-SugarCRM employees or contractors.

  • Fabio Grande

    Let’s get serious for a moment….
    This contest is a great idea… anyway I’m doing my (hope) best on gitHub, just because :
    1) I’m having fun
    2) As a partner I want to improve (for what I can do) SugarCRM
    3) I strongly believe in OpenSource philosophy

    That said, let me try an “indecent proposal”… Apart the above mentioned prizes (that geeks like me always like), I guess it could be cool (???) to have the chance to win some SugarCRM’s black shirt… Something that say “ok, I did it something more-or-less good… I’m a bit part of the family”….

    My 2c

    FabioG

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  • John Mertic

    I like this idea. What does everyone else think about this.

  • F Grande

    Hi,
    another idea, this time non exactly for community (and actually not attached to this contest), even if can start from community.
    Why don’t start a “Certification Program”, to certify knowledge of SugarCRM. I’m thinking about a “consultant certification” and a “Developer Certification”.
    Everyone can become certified, paying a (small ?) fee for certification exams… 
    Then, partners MUST have at least one certified developer/consultant…. (one or more, depending on the partnership level).
    This way, end users are guaranteed when they choose a partner…..
    Certification should be attached to the single (dev or consultant) NOT on the partner. So, when a partner needs to hire new people, can search into the “certified list”…. Every certified Dev/Consultant should have some visibility in SugarCRM’s worldwide site.
    If one day You’ll choose to build up a certification program like this, prizes of contests could be also vouchers for certification exams…. (here You are : this is the link between my idea and this contest !!!!)

    Ciao – FabioG

  • Margaret Vail

    Hi,

    This was posted on June 15th, 2011, but says in the description “All you need to do is submit fixes to bugs created before June 1st, 2011″. Is the date of June 1st, 2011 wrong?

    Thanks

  • F Grande

    Hi Margaret.
    I guess dates are right… otherwise it would be too simple opening new bugs  and correct them….
    If You take a look at Bug Tracker You’ll find a bunch of bugs  (not a lot…) to work on…
    Ciao – FabioG

  • F Grande

    Jackson,
    I agree with You. I love Android, I started playing with it (developing stupid things on the standard emulator), and I find it really good…. I think Android’s hardware (Samsung Galaxy, for instance) is nothing less than iPad/iPhone…
    Anyway, iPad is a fantastic prize, even if it’s not Android :-) …. isn’t it ?

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