2013 Developer Challenge

List of Participants

Nearly 20 developers participated in the 2013 developer challenge by submitting projects that demonstrated technical innovations for family history. From these, a panel of judges selected six finalists. The final 3 winners will be announced at RootsTech during the Keynote on Friday, March 22.

Designation	Project Name	Submitted By
Finalist	BrowseHero	Tom Auga & Chris Giesey
Finalist	Completely Relative (MS Windows App Store)	Benjamin Godard
Finalist	Hope Chest	Eric Vance
Finalist	OurFamilyHealth	Jaehoon Lee
Finalist	ResearchTies	Jill N. Crandell
Finalist	Treelines.com	Tammy Hepps
	Automatic Life Sketch Videos on the Historic Journals Site	Douglas Kennard
	Familyfound	Jared Forsyth
	Family-oriented genealogy web portal	Anna van Raaphorst
	FamilyTreep	Peter Ivie
	File Grove	Shonda Schallenberger
	GEDCOM Analyzer	Ray Smith
	GraveIndex	Dovy Paukstys
	leaf	Daneil Zappala
	People Finder Chrome Extension	Robert Gardner
	RecordSeek	Dovy Paukstys
	ReelGenie	Tabrez Shaikh
	The All Israel Database	Brooke Schreier Ganz

If you’ve been thinking, "there should be an app for that," now is your chance. Solving that problem could earn you $2,500, a laptop, and the admiration of millions.

RootsTech will reward developers who introduce the most innovative new concepts to family history with cash rewards and increased visibility.

The Problem

Tens of millions of people around the world are interested in family history. These people need software solutions—whether on the desktop, online, or through mobile delivery—that help them engage and succeed in their efforts to discover, preserve, and share their family history.

The Challenge

Create an application or service that introduces a compelling new concept or innovation for family history.

Here is a sampling of the types of projects you might choose to tackle:

• Digitally preserve and share genealogy information that has not previously been captured
• Visualize genealogy data based on relationships, geography, or timelines
• Help new family historians start their research and stay organized as part of the process
• Uniquely identify or disambiguate multiple ancestors who appear to be the same person
• Dynamically generate collaborative ancestor pages with multiple feeds or sources of information

Rules, Prizes and Deadlines

See Rules