Announcing the SenchaCon 2011 App Contest

It’s that time of year again! While we here at Sencha are getting ready for the biggest and boldest SenchaCon ever, it’s your turn to show us what you can do — as we invite you to compete in the coveted SenchaCon 2011 App Contest.

But this is no ordinary JavaScript contest — if only because of the COMPLETELY AWESOME!1!! prizes. Third place wins US$2,500 and an iPad 2. Second place wins a spectacular US$10,000 and a MacBook Pro. And the winner? The winner will receive nothing less than a 2011 Nissan Leaf.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen: a car. Write some JavaScript, and win a car.

Of course, with prizes like this, we set the bar high. In order to be in with a chance of winning, we want you to build something special. We’re looking for rich, collaborative web applications that show how to put Sencha frameworks and services to their best use.

We expect competing applications to use the latest versions of our JavaScript SDKs (namely Ext JS and Sencha Touch), and encourage you to use our Sencha.io Cloud Services. You’re encouraged to use our tools, such as Ext Designer and Sencha Animator, and of course, as much extra HTML5 goodness as you like.

The application can be designed for the desktop or mobile web, but we’ll be even more impressed if it straddles both. The app must be fully functional and running successfully when we begin first round of judging at noon, PST, September 23rd, 2011. The top ten submissions will then undergo a second round of judging, to be held on October 15th, 2011, and the top three finalists will be announced in Austin, at SenchaCon 2011, on October 24th.

So what are you waiting for? Find out more about the contest, check the rules, and the judges are standing by to see what you can do.

Rev up your (eco-friendly) JavaScript engines, and we’ll see you in October!