Registration for the 'Gonggisoftware Developer Competition' Opens Tomorrow... Total Prize Money 53 Million Won

[Asia Economy Reporter Seulgina Cho] Registration for participants in the '2020 Open Source Software Developer Contest,' with a total prize of 53 million KRW, will be held from June 11 to July 10.

According to the Ministry of Science and ICT on the 10th, this year's contest, marking its 14th edition, aims to nurture creative open source software (SW) developers and will select 22 teams. With a total prize of 53 million KRW, the grand prize (one team each for students and general participants) will receive 7 million KRW and the Minister of Science and ICT Award respectively.

Anyone interested in open source software can participate. Participants will be supported with online education and mentoring to improve their open source software development capabilities and enhance the completeness of their submissions.

The online education is designed for non-software majors and beginner developers, offering basic open source software courses and advanced courses by technology necessary for developing submissions. Participants will study the provided educational materials while developing open source software and submit their entries by September 3. Afterwards, about 40 finalists will be selected through the first round of judging.

Finalists will undergo an intensive one-month mentoring period to improve development skills and refine their submissions, followed by a second round of judging to select the final winners.

The open source software development fields include new technology areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, blockchain, which are recently developing based on open source software, as well as non-face-to-face technology fields like remote collaboration and web office.

The winning works will be compiled into an excellent casebook and distributed to software companies and related organizations. Those wishing to start a business can receive support such as startup education and commercialization consulting from the National IT Industry Promotion Agency.

For inquiries about the contest, contact the '2020 Open Source Software Developer Contest' Secretariat at 02-599-7917 / contest@oss.kr.

Song Kyunghee, Software Policy Officer at the Ministry of Science and ICT, stated, "We hope this contest will serve as an opportunity to further expand the base of open source software development and participation culture," adding, "We will actively support nurturing creative developers who can lead the post-COVID era and revitalize the open source software ecosystem."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.