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Volume 3.0 | Nov 2014

Editors note

Greetings from Ideamart team! We proudly present you our

3rd successful publication of Ideamart newsletter, which

primarily focuses on enlightening you a full and varied insightinto many activities that occurred in and around of Ideamart.

In addition to our updates of preceding and upcoming events,

we have made this version of the feature interactive and

entertaining. We hope that this newsletter will not only

educate you but also will help you to enhance creativity for

your forthcoming developments. Hope you enjoy reading our

newsletter

Newsletter

Inside this Issue

Past Events ...2

Upcoming Events13

IdeaMart team column...15

Ideamarts performance for

the past few months (June-

October) in 2014 had been

tremendously successful. As a

result, its growth can be

measured by the number of

API hits obtained and the

average revenue generated

per month. The following stats

demonstrate Ideamarts immense

success incurred during the past

aforementioned months:

API hits in October 2014:

34,180, 661.

Average revenue generated by

an app per month is aprox. is

Rs. 20, 000/=

Active apps: 3173

Visitourwebsite:http://www.i

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Developer Achievements...12
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PastEvents

Idea Bash

Idea Bash is the annual gathering of Ideamart developers, techenthusiasts, speakers and the general public sharing innovative

ideas to produce new apps. This interactive session brought

together their exciting insights on idea creation and user

experience of Ideamart services. As a result, this event was

immensely successful than expected.

Ideamart Outreach Sabaragamuwa University

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TAD HACK

This is the first ever international satellite Hackathon event held inSri Lanka which was hosted by HSenid Mobile. This exclusive global

event was sponsored by Ideamart and was also the core platform for

this prestigious occasion. At this Hackathon, 14 enthusiastic teams

competed; in which DIY was declared as the winner of TAD HACK

Sri Lanka, while Offer Hut and M-Pay secured the third and second

place respectively. However, M- PAYs application outstandingly

emerged as the international winner of SMS, and USSD category ofTAD HACK 2014.

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Session for 99X Interns

Ideamart Outreach at Uva Wellassa University

uly

Firefox and Ideamart Session

Ideamart conducted a training program in collaboration with Morzilla

Firefox community, encouraging the developers to create Firefox web

apps and mobile apps mashing up with Dialog Ideamart APIs.

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Ideamart Outreach at Kelaniya University

Colombo API Meetup

This is a campaign run by

Dialog APIs to collect

developer feedbacks and

seek what the next APIrelease they require from

Dialog Axiata Plc.

Dialog All Staff

Ideamart has been training people all across

Sri Lanka. On the other hand, understanding

the importance of our key human resource

assets (employees), Ideamart approached

Dialog staff and trained them to create cool

apps. As a result, this training session

empowered the staff and uplifted the societys

wellbeing.

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MOR H CK

This is an annual Hackathon at University of Moratuwa organized byDialog Ideamart with the intention of generating creative and

innovative applications using Ideamart platform. The Winner of the

MoraHack 2014 was team EI developed IMTraffic API to monitor

traffics and used those details as business analytical tool.

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Yarl Geek IT Intro session

For the first time, Ideamart reached out to Jaffna and empowered

the talent pool in Universities and Schools. This event was made

possible through Yarl IT Hub community parallel to Yarl Geek

Challenge Season 3.

Ideamart Outreach at Rajarata University

Ideamart Outreach at NIBM Galle

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Yarl Geek Challenge Hackathon 2014

Yarl geek Challenge is a tech start up competition which extended for

over four days in its beautiful serene city Jaffna. Ideamart was one

of the sponsors for this venerable event. Highlights are: 7 out of 23

projects used Ideamart APIs where the winners and runners up

received exclusive Ideamart prizes. In the senior category; Team

RedKites emerged as the winner for creating a bus reservation ticket

application, meanwhile, in the junior category; GnanakeethanBalasubramniyum emerged as the winner who made a complete

timetable management for institutes using Ideamart API services.

Outstandingly, Tracklers was the 3rd runners up and the winner for

using the Best Ideamart API Usage, this team created an impressive

M2M platform drives automated sprinkler system and received

Ideamart elite rizes.

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Kandy App Challenge 2014

This was an introductory session organized by Dialog regional branch in

collaboration with Dialog Ideamart. This was an event organized to

educate schooling students and university students on how to create

apps using Dialog Ideamart and Android platform. As a result, this wasa preparatory session for students to participate in the upcoming Kandy

App Challenge which will be held on 22ndof December, 2014.

We conducted Ideamart Outreach

awareness sessions at some of the

prominent institutes of Colombo

such as; NIBM, ANC, NSBM, IIT and

E-SOFT during the month of

November. These sessions gave

participants the opportunity to

understand more about Ideamart

services and discuss their doubts oncreating applications. We hope to

extend and cover our reach to all

the schools and universities in Sri

Lanka.

If you wish Ideamart to conduct a

session at your university or school,

Please mail us to [email protected]

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YARL GEEK CHALLENGE- Finals

As you know, the previous seasons of Yarl Geek Challenge Hackathons were

conducted in Jaffna producing astounding entrepreneurs. However, the Yarl

Geek Challenge Finale (season 3) was held in Colombo. At the finale: team Red

Kites (creators of bus booking system) emerged the winner, team Spacey won

the second place (office space rental start-ups) and team Trackers secured the

third place (who built product monitoring platform for agriculture sector.

Ideamart team is pleased to see that the contestants made good use of the

Ideamart APIs, especially team Tracklers. More important at this event, the

winning teams received fabulous prizes from the sponsors and also were funded

by Blue Ocean Ventures and Lankan Angel Network: the team Red Kites were

funded and mentored by Blue Ocean Ventures, whereas the teams Strikers and

TunaLabz were funded and will be mentored by Lankan Angel Network

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Ideamart Hackathon Code Ultimatum 2014

Hackathon Code Ultimatum is the annual signature

event organized by Ideamart. It was held on the 28th

and 29th of November 2014, at Premier Pacific

Pinnacle Building from 6pm to 9am.

For the second time, Ideamart gave the opportunity

for the public to come up with brilliant innovative

ideas such as game apps, music apps, social

networks, and many more exciting apps solely

focused on entertainment and were created using

Ideamart platform. This event was not only about

coding but was also about having fun, excitement,

meeting new people, developing skills and winning.

Hackathon Code Ultimatum 2014 came up with cash

prizes for the winners and another follow up

competitions which include more prizes from Dialog.

Winners- RomanKaarayo

1strunner up- Mutex

2ndrunner up- Cardboard


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MAKE A WISH-

Its Christmas season and Ideamart is hoping to bring the true meaning of celebrating

this festivity in a distinctive way. Anticipating this season, Ideamart will launch Make

a Wish where Ideamart will indulge its Dialog customers to

donate via anything.lk/wow.lk using Ideamart platforms: the

items displayed on the sites will be based on the

requirements (wishes) collected anonymously from the kids,

hence every item as requested will be donated by Dialog

customers and there onwards will be gifted to Orphanages

through Ideamart team. The concept of Make a Wishwas initiated to spread love,

sentiment and happiness to both heartfelt customers and kids during this month.

Christmas with Ideamart Last year, Ideamart celebrated

Christmas where anyone could send a sms (free of charge) and

light up the Christmas tree which was setup at Ideamart office;

the sms senders could see the message and the tree lighting up

via live streaming.

This year, Ideamart will couple up with charity organisations and

will be providing interactive system using Christmas trees at

public places.

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Hi everybody!

I am very pleased to see an array of innovative apps coming out from last

year.

We are very grateful for your enthusiasm and dedication delivering some

outstanding services. I would also like to specially mention here that the

synergy and team spirit shown by the community is tremendously

wonderful, not only helping each other but also doing it continuously.

I will be echoing the same comments from my colleagues. Be mindful, always

think about building a good service for your customers and do not focus

only on a just a quick buck but also know to create value to your customers.

Irresponsible behaviour not only makes your services and revenue

unsustainable, but it disheartens the other developers who are making an

honest living.

I am extremely overwhelmed to see many of you crossing the 50K revenue

mark but make sure to expand your horizons by exceeding 500K mark by

next year! Wish you all good luck with your forthcoming endeavours.

Hi Friends!

Weve grown tremendously for the past few years; grown from last

year to this year even on monthly basis. Weve done extremely well

and thanks to the Ideamart community to whom this platform is

built! We are also proud that weve reached out to most of the

universities of all parts of the country including Jaffna and Ruhuna.We have done more than 40 events this year, including the

Hackathons which showcased Sri Lankan talents internationally and

even won prizes to Sri Lanka.

However, we are also worried about the few bad apples in our basket.

We will be very strict on those of the developer community who do not

stick to our guidelines and also use the platform for unethical activities.

We will take sever action with regard to such violations starting from 2015.

Thank you! Roshanth

Venura

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