The annual OceanBase Technical Essay Contest is fully open! Getting started, waiting for you to write

As a domestic native distributed database completely independently developed, OceanBase has stably supported Double 11 for 9 consecutive years, and innovatively launched a new city-level disaster recovery standard of "three places and five centers". A domestic native distributed database that broke the world record.

In order to allow more users to truly experience the OceanBase database, Gitee and OceanBase jointly launched the annual OceanBase Technology Essay Contest, inviting developers to experience various ways of playing from deployment to migration. The theme of the first issue of essays will focus on "Introduction to OceanBase Community Edition" To Actual Combat" course learning and practice.

The time period is about 2 months, and the time nodes are as follows:
Article submission: May 27-July 25 Finalists: June 1-July 25 (shortlisted articles are announced every two weeks)
Expert evaluation: July 26 to July 28 Evaluation announcement: July 29

1. Contribution content of activity rules: Learning and practical sharing of the course "OceanBase Community Edition Getting Started to Actual Combat", including installation and deployment, development operation and maintenance, data migration, performance tuning and other usage skills and study notes.
Course study address:
https://open.oceanbase.com/docs/videoCenter
https://open.oceanbase.com/docs/tutorials-cn/V1.0.0

2. Submission method Step 1: Submit the article through the warehouse issues, the article will be first published in the Gitee community, and add the tag #AnnualOceanBaseTechnical Papers;
Step 2: Naming format: competition direction (installation and deployment/development operation/maintenance/migration/performance tuning) + work name;
Step 3: After submitting, register the information so that the staff can contact to issue prizes after the event.
Registration link: https://survey.taobao.com/apps/zhiliao/TlfGohl5t

3. After the preliminary review author submits the manuscript, the review team will conduct a preliminary review, and the reviewed articles will be published once a week and reprinted to the OceanBase Community Edition [Blog] "Getting Started" column, and the author will receive OceanBase peripheral gifts. Articles that pass the preliminary review can participate in the evaluation activities; for the articles that do not pass the preliminary review, the review team will give suggestions for modification, and they can be submitted for registration again after modification.

4. Evaluation
OceanBase technical experts selected the first, second, third and excellence awards according to the quality of the article content (including but not limited to novel themes, complete structure, clear logic, neat format, and practical significance). The number of words in this call for essays is not less than 800 words, with pictures and texts, original, and first published on Gitee; plagiarism will be considered invalid. In addition, we have also set up the Best Popularity Award and the Best Diligence Award as special rewards.
Best Popularity Award: 1 Best Diligence Award: 3, Top 3 with the most shortlisted articles The evaluation results will be announced through the Gitee and OceanBase WeChat public accounts.
1st Prize: Apple Watch 2nd Prize 3rd: Mechanical Keyboard 5th Prize: Bluetooth Mouse 3 winners: The award-winning mechanical keyboard works, the copyright belongs to the author, and OceanBase has the right to use it.

Finally, if you have any questions, you can contact us through the following ways~

Contact Us Welcome OceanBase enthusiasts, users and customers to contact us at any time and give feedback in the following ways:
Community Edition official website forum: https://ask.oceanbase.com/
Issue on the community version project website: https://github.com/oceanbase/oceanbase/issues

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