Our first mini-hackathon of 2017 will take place the weekend before Enterprise Connect 2017 in Orlando. Developers who hack at TADHack get 50% off the onsite price for the Enterprise Connect Orlando 2017 conference (use code ECHACK17 when registering). Winners and runners up from TADHack-mini Orlando will pitch at Enterprise Connect for even greater exposure!
Thank you – to everyone who attended TADHack mini Orlando 2017, especially our sponsors: Cisco Spark / Tropo, Flowroute, Matrix, Ring Central, Telestax with partners DataArt and Dialogic, Temasys, and Vidyo.io, for making this event possible! Also a big thank you to the Orlando technology and entrepreneurial communities, you were are amazing and we received a ton of local support.
TADHack-mini Orlando delivered on our motto of “TADHack is for Everyone”. We had many first-timers creating impressive hacks, such as: elder connected care, message-based legal aid, emergency assistance, personal information delivery bots, translator bots for a multi-lingual work place, an Amazon Lex hack, and many more. Several winning hacks required little coding, this is an exciting trend: telecom tools and platforms enable non-coders to easily create innovative solutions to problems. The winners also presented at Enterprise Connect, sharing their creations with a large global audience, and demonstrating the power of programmable telecoms.
Cisco Spark makes it easy for teams to stay in sync, as conversations flow seamlessly between messages, video calls and real-time whiteboarding sessions. All this taking place in virtual meeting rooms that live for a few hours while others become permanent fixtures of your team’s workflow with titles like “Daily Standup”, “Build Status” or “TADHack-mini London where awesome WebRTC code gets written!”
The initial set of Spark APIs is primarily about room management and getting content in and out of Spark: create rooms, invite people, search for people, post message, get messages history, and be notified in real-time as new messages are posted by others…
API documentation: https://developer.ciscospark.com/quick-reference.html
Interact with Spark API in a snatch:
– List Rooms
– Get Person Details
– Search for People
Tutorials: https://developer.ciscospark.com/samples-tutorials.html
24/7 Support via the Spark Room “/join #spark4devs”, or via email: https://developer.ciscospark.com/support.html
Get in-depth information about the Flowroute APIs to quickly integrate calling and messaging capabilities into your apps. You’ll find guides, documentation, use cases and SDKs for the Phone Number Management and Messaging APIs.
The fastest way to get started is to sign up for a free account, and then email us your Tech Prefix so we can add some test credit to your Flowroute account – don’t forget to mention you are going to be at TADHack-mini in Orlando.
Available Resources:
– APIs – Phone numbers and Messaging
–Guides
–Github
–Contact support
The Flowroute team is available in advance of TADHack-mini in Orlando to discuss ideas or answer questions by email or through Intercom on http://www.flowroute.com – by clicking on the conversation bubble in the lower right-hand corner.
Matrix is an open source distributed persistent messaging fabric with eventual consistency, open federation and strong cryptographic guarantees – used for securely exchanging messages and synchronising communication history between humans, devices and services with no single points of control or data ownership. It consists of an open standard defining RESTful HTTP APIs and open source, Apache-licensed reference server and client implementations for exchanging and persisting arbitrary JSON data. It can be used to exchange group chat, voice or video calls, IoT data, or any information you could wish to publish/subscribe via an internet-wide open persistent messaging network. VoIP calls in Matrix are done using the WebRTC standard.
Many clients and services have been written based on the Matrix open standard – including Riot, a feature-rich open source client written by the Matrix.org team.
There are also several Open Source SDKs that make it easy to create new clients and application services – and guides to get you started!
In previous TADHacks we have seen hacks that extend Matrix to existing services such as SIP/IMS, real-time translation of text messages, chatting via sign language, and even making a robot dance the Macarena with commands sent through Matrix!
The Matrix team is available to discuss ideas or answer questions in the Matrix TADHack room – please come and chat!
Resources:
– Spec and APIs
– Guides
– Matrix SDKs and source code at github
– Riot source code (web and mobile) at github
The RingCentral Connect Platform enables enterprise developers and ISVs to seamlessly integrate voice, business SMS, fax and team messaging into key workflows and apps.
Sign up for a your free API Account at http://developer.ringcentral.com to learn more.
– Getting Started Tutorials
– SDKs & Sample Apps
– ringcentral-js—Official JavaScript SDK
– ringcentral-php—Official PHP SDK
– ringcentral-csharp—Official .NET SDK
– ringcentral-python—Official Python SDK
– ringcentral-web-phone—Official JavaScript WebRTC Client Library
– RingCentral Developer FAQAnswers to the most commonly asked developer questions
Ask your code questions and share ideas, issues, or answers at either:
– StackOverflow using the RingCentral tag
– RingCentral Developer Community
– Developer Support Dedicated developer support cases, handled FIFO
Learn about upcoming news, events, and more by following RingCentralDevs on Medium, Twitter, and Github:
– Follow RingCentralDevs on Medium
– Follow RingCentralDevs on Twitter
– Follow RingCentral on Github
Telestax, Dialogic, and DataArt are teaming up at TADHack-mini Orlando to offer Restcomm powered by PowerMedia XMS, a unified Cloud Communications platform with advanced media capabilities to rapidly build scalable VOICE, VIDEO, and MESSAGING Applications, using your existing Web and Mobile Development Skills.
Get started with RestComm powered by PowerMedia XMS now!
Restcomm API resources:
Restcomm API Technical documentation and tutorials
Restcomm Android WebRTC Quick Start and SDK API
Restcomm iOS WebRTC Quick Start and SDK API
Restcomm JavaScript WebRTC Quick Start and SDK API
Online Help: Gitter Public Channel
Community forums:
Stack Overflow forum
Google RestComm forum
Video developer resources:
How-to blog and video
RestComm Application Examples and prior TADHack winners videos
RestComm WebRTC Example Videos
Building the Apps
The Temasys Real-Time Communications Platform offers a full cloud-hosted solution with easy-to-use SDKs to help any developer embed real-time VIDEO, AUDIO, CHAT, and DATA EXCHANGE into any app, on any device, at any scale.
Your imagination is the limit when it comes to bringing real-time communications to life in your application with our SDKs.
Ready to get started?
We’re here to help! Here’s what you’ll need to do:
1. GET A TEMASYS ACCOUNT! Head over to the Temasys Console to get a Temasys account. You’ll need one to set up your application to work with the Temasys SDKs.
2. SET UP YOUR FIRST APPLICATION! Once you have an account, set up your first application.
3. DOWNLOAD THE SDKs! We offer SDKs for JS, iOS (Swift and Objective C), and Android. You’ll need to download the SDK for your particular application.
4. ADD AWESOMENESS TO YOUR APPS! Okay. Maybe it’s not that simple, but now you’re ready to code.
Free resources to help you…
Temasys Free Resources – A nice web page here that can be your starting point…but if you’re ready to get into the details, see below!
Products, Release Notes and Documentation
Temasys Web SDK (a.k.a. SkylinkJS):
– Getting Started with the Temasys SDK for Web
– Temasys Web SDK Product Page
– Releases and Release Notes
– Detailed Documentation
– Sample Applications and Code Skeletons
Temasys Android SDK (a.k.a. Skylink SDK for Android):
Cloud API for Voice and SMS. Tropo makes it simple to build phone and SMS applications. You use the web technologies you already know and Tropo’s powerful cloud API to bring real-time communications to your apps.
Tropo Sandbox: Sign up and get access to the free Tropo sandbox to play with the Tropo API.
Tropo Support: There are several methods to get help on Tropo, whether you need best practice suggestions, answers to general how to questions/code problems or help brainstorming a solution to a unique problem you’re trying to solve.
Vidyo.io is a cloud API that makes it easy to embed multiparty video chat into your mobile, web, or native app. You don’t need to be a video expert to use the Vidyo.io APIs. You can quickly and easily embed real-time video into your existing app. Vidyo.io is powered by a global cloud equipped with technology that continuously optimizes the video connection of each endpoint ensuring a high degree of reliability and error resilience.
It’s easy to get started. Simply create a free Vidyo.io account and check out the available resources for help.
Available Resources: