Scality, the company I work for, announced plans to open-source the Software Development Kit (SDK) of its RING technology. As a kickoff incentive, Scality is offering contributing developers bounties from a $100,000 USD fund.
Scality is publishing an open-source library called Scality Droplet, which makes code immediately available for download. Scality Droplet will enable developers to easily build applications which interface with Scality RING, with Amazon’s S3 API and more generally with any object storage technology, thanks to Scality RING’s modular design.
Scality RING is ideal for applications handling enormous volumes of user-generated content such as email in the cloud or social applications, like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The Scality Droplet library implements common services such as encryption, compression and large file slicing to let application developers focus on their users’ needs.
The contest or grant opportunity is called the “SCOP Bounty Program,” and it will enable talented developers to apply for $1,000 to $10,000 bounties from a pot of $100,000. To be eligible, the developer’s software application must be built using code freely available from the Scality Droplet library. Interested developers can visit http://scop.scality.com for more information or to download an application form. The submission deadline is November 30, 2010.
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