The F# Software Foundation is happy to announce the second Applied F# Challenge! Alan Ball and Kevin Avignon are leading the initiative to begin in early 2021.

We are currently seeking judges for the event to form the Program Committee.

The goal of the Applied F# Challenge is to publicize and promote in-depth technical publications and example code projects that demonstrate significant technical value and unique practical relevance for F#. Your submissions will help the F# Software Foundation to educate engineers across the globe about how F# can be used in advanced, innovative, and mission-critical scenarios. You may only participate as an individual - this is not a team event.

Here are the categories in which you can participate:

• F# for machine learning and data science
• F# for distributed systems
• F# in the cloud (web, serverless, containers, etc.)
• F# for desktop and mobile development
• F# in your organization or domain (healthcare, finance, games, retail, etc.)
• F# and open-source development
• F# for IoT or hardware programming
• F# in research (quantum, bioinformatics, security, etc.)
• Out of the box F# topics, scenarios, applications, or example

For those who participate and win in their respective category, you will be appointed as a Recognized F# Expert by the F# Software Foundation. The F# Software Foundation is grateful for the contributions to the F# community. Submissions will optionally be published on the F# Software Foundation online resources or included in https://github.com/fsharp as sample reference projects.

We perfectly understand that the pandemic situation doesn’t make life easy right now. The challenge can also be seen as a way to build cool stuff you’d like to build and show off what F# can do to the rest of the world. Hopefully, it can provide you with a fun platform in which you can enjoy yourselves.

We are currently seeking F# experts in the listed categories to serve as judges. If you are capable of reviewing submissions within a specific category for the event, please contact the F# board at [email protected].

Once we have our judges, we will provide a clearer timeline for the challenge.