Twilio Contests: Build Voice Applications in the Cloud, Win a Netbook!

Developer Contest: Use Twilio, OpenVBX or Stashboard and Win a Netbook - Ends Sunday August 1st

The contest category for this week is Anything Goes. To qualify, submit an application, service, mashup, plugin, open source project or anything else that uses the Twilio API, OpenVBX or Stashboard. That's the only requirement. Previous non-winning entries are free to enter again as well. The best submission as judged by Twilio wins! 

Need some inspiration? Check out our past contest categories for the types of apps you can build with Twilio.

Prizes

The first place winner will receive a Netbook from Twilio and $100 in Twilio developer credit.

How to Enter

Developers have until 11:59pm on Sunday, August 1st, to submit your entry to Twilio for the chance to win some sweet prizes.  Developers may enter the contest as many times as they wish, but can only win one prize per contest.

Submit your entry now

Developer Contest: OpenVBX Plugins

Twilio has launched a brand new open source web-based phone system for businesses called OpenVBX. You can read more about the launch on our OpenVBX blog or on TechCrunch.

One of the most important features of OpenVBX is how customizable it is including full theming support and a plugin API. For this week's netbook contest, we're challenging you to build the best OpenVBX plugin.

Thanks to our fantastic developer community we have some examples of the types of plugins you can build. Jonathan Kressaty has examples on GitHub and Andrew Watson has built a couple as well.

Now it's up to you. Enter your best OpenVBX plugin and you could win a Netbook and $100 in developer credit from Twilio. Bonus points for putting together helpful materials (screencasts, blog posts, etc.) that demonstrate the value of what you've built, or explain how it could become a business someday.

Not sure where to get started? Check out the Plugin API documentation and Applet Quickstart.

What's This Developer Contest All About?

Each week we announce a new category to encourage developers to try Twilio or OpenVBX for different use cases, industries, and integrations.  As a language-agnostic platform for cloud communications, we want to see developers from all backgrounds find success and solve problems.  To fire your imagination and reward your efforts, we've run this developer contest for over a year.

How To Get Involved

Submissions to the contest are due by Sunday June 27th, at 11:59pm Pacific Time, and can be submitted here.  If you need any help or want to bounce ideas off our Twilio developers, please join us on our OpenVBX forums or drop a note to help@twilio.com

Twilio for the .NET Framework

Twilio REST Library for .NET 3.5 by Robert McLaws

Congratulations to Robert McLaws, who resubmitted from Week 5 to win the Week 13 Netbook prize! Robert built a Twilio WCF REST Client Library for .NET 3.5, which he describes as, "a strongly-typed .NET API to build rich, robust services against Twilio's platform".

The library helps developer productivity by reducing the learning curve by eliminating the need to learn the ins and outs of Twilio's system, and provides a discoverable, thoroughly-documented, IntelliSense-backed API library, as well as a sample Console application to get you up and running quickly.

Open Source It!

Twilio + Nagios by Alex Polvi

Want to make sure your on-call team gets up and out of bed when a Nagios alarm is triggered? Alex pairs Twilio-powered phone alerts with Nagios systems infrastructure monitoring to generate robot-voice alerts to the systems administrator responsible for handling the situation. And who can resist a robot calling at 3am?

Find the open sourced code on Github