Hello NuPIC, I am very excited to announce that the Numenta HTM Challenge is live and ready for submissions!
Blog post: http://numenta.org/blog/2015/09/18/introducing-the-htm-challenge.html Main site: http://htmchallenge.devpost.com/ Challenge Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/numenta/events/224711586/ Community Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/numenta/events/224711563/ Hopefully, the links above have all the info you need. But just to distill it down for you... The Challenge is a remote programming contest for creating HTM applications. Participants must submit their ideas for approval. We (Numenta) will help to ensure your submissions are in good shape before approving them. All approved submissions will be visible in a public gallery. Demo videos are due November 6 -- one week before the Onsite -- so that judges and the public can view all demos. The Friday before the Onsite is a community event (let Fergal know if you want to help with this) that is still being worked out. The Onsite will be an all-day thing with (at least) 2 presentations by Jeff H and Subutai about HTM. The rest of the day will be demo viewing and judging (and probably some door prizes). Anyone may RSVP to either event, even if they are not submitting a project to the Challenge. !! CALL TO ACTION !! WE NEED SUBMISSIONS. The worst thing that could happen is that not enough people submit realistic projects to the Challenge, and we end up with just a handful of projects. My personal goal is to have at least 20 submissions to judge. How can you help? PROMOTE THE EVENT! If you are a member of any local programming groups, user groups, college clubs, etc. that might have members interested in HTM, please tell them about the Challenge. Share this on Twitter [1], Facebook [2], whatever. This is a remote event, so anyone in the world may participate, so we have a MUCH larger potential pool of participants. So one challenge we face is reaching them all. If you are going to share only one link, please link to this blog post, which contains all the essential info: http://numenta.org/blog/2015/09/18/introducing-the-htm-challenge.html [1] https://twitter.com/Numenta [2] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Numenta/321559142118 Thanks, --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
