{"id":21650,"date":"2019-02-05T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?p=21595"},"modified":"2019-03-31T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:03:07","slug":"submit-to-the-applied-f-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/submit-to-the-applied-f-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit to the Applied F# Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was written by Lena Hall<\/a>, a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft.<\/em><\/p>\n

F# Software Foundation has recently announced their new initiative\u200a\u2014\u200aApplied F# Challenge<\/a>! We encourage you to participate and send your submissions about F# on Azure through the participation form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Applied F# Challenge is a new initiative to encourage in-depth educational submissions to reveal more of the interesting, unique, and advanced applications of F#.<\/p>\n

The motivation for the challenge is uncovering more of advanced and innovative scenarios and applications of F# we hear about less often:<\/p>\n

We primarily hear about people using F# for web development, analytical programming, and scripting. While those are perfect use cases for F#, there are many more brilliant and less covered scenarios where F# has demonstrated its strength. For example, F# is used in quantum computing, cancer research, bioinformatics, IoT, and other domains that are not typically mentioned as often.<\/em><\/p>\n

You have some time to think about the topic for your submission because the challenge is open from February 1 to May 20<\/strong> this year.<\/p>\n

What should you submit?<\/h2>\n

Publish a new article or an example code project that covers a use case of a scenario where you feel the use of F# to be essential or unique. The full eligibility criteria and frequently asked questions are listed in the official announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are multiple challenge categories you can choose to write about:<\/p>\n

F# for machine learning and data science.\nF# for distributed systems.\nF# in the cloud: web, serverless, containers, etc.\nF# for desktop and mobile development.\nF# in your organization or domain: healthcare, finance, games, retail, etc.\nF# and open-source development.\nF# for IoT or hardware programming.\nF# in research: quantum, bioinformatics, security, etc.\nOut of the box F# topics, scenarios, applications, or examples.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why should you participate in the challenge?<\/h2>\n

All submissions will receive F# stickers as a participation reward for contributing to the efforts of improving the F# ecosystem and raising awareness of F# strengths in advanced or uncovered use cases.<\/p>\n

Participants with winning submissions in each category will also receive the title of a Recognized F# Expert<\/strong> by F# Software Foundation and a special non-monetary prize.<\/p>\n

Each challenge category will be judged by the committees that include many notable F# experts and community leaders, including Don Syme<\/a>, Rachel Blasucci<\/a>, Evelina Gabasova<\/a>, Henrik Feldt<\/a>, Tomas Perticek<\/a>, and many more.<\/p>\n

As the participation form<\/a> suggests, you will also have an opportunity to be included in a recommended speaker list by F# Software Foundation.<\/p>\n

Spread the word<\/h2>\n

Help us spread the word about the Applied F# Challenge by encouraging others to participate with #AppliedFSharpChallenge<\/a> hashtag on Twitter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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