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Alibaba Cloud Developer Initiative
A Virtual Web Building Challenge with RM 50,000 Prize Pool and Multiple Benefits.
Organizing Partner:
Campaign Overview
Alibaba Cloud Developer Initiative 2021 is a virtual website-building competition for professionals and students from developing fields in Malaysia. You will have first hand experience using Alibaba Cloud products and services to build your website for this competition.
Alibaba Cloud Discovery Online Webinars
Hands on Labs Modules & Exam Credits
Access to Alibaba Cloud Academy Resources
Online Focus Group Discussions
Prizes and Benefits
The final winners will get prizes inclduing cash, cloud credits and custimized gifts.
1st Place: 1 Winner
$2,000 Cash Prize (Pre-Tax)
$2,000 Alibaba Cloud Credits
Exclusive Merchandise
Winner Certificate
Reference Letter from Alibaba Cloud
2nd Place: 2 Winners
$1,000 Cash Prize (Pre-Tax)
$1,000 Alibaba Cloud Credits
Exclusive Merchandise
Winner Certificate
Reference Letter from Alibaba Cloud
3rd Place: 3 Winners
$500 Cash Prize (Pre-Tax)
$500 Alibaba Cloud Credits
Exclusive Merchandise
Winner Certificate
Reference Letter from Alibaba Cloud
Innovation Award: 10 Winners
$200 Alibaba Cloud Credits
Exclusive Merchandise
Winner Certificate
Reference Letter from Alibaba Cloud
Participants of the campagin will get multiple benefits including:
Free Vouchers of Related Clouder Certifications (for All Registered Participants)
E-Certificate of Participation (for Participants with Qualified Submissions)
Customized Gifts (for First 100 Participants with Qualified Submissions)
Schedule
Enrolment Stages
Register
Please ensure you have added a payment method before registering to the campaign.
Get and Activate Cloud Services
You may get ECS, OSS and RDS for free with Free Trial.
Build Your Web Solution
Use the cloud services to build your own project, and publish it with a domain name.
Submit Your Solution
Early submissions will get additional benefits.
Enrolment FAQ:
- The solution must be using one or more Alibaba Cloud products.
- The solution must be deployed on an individual public domain name.
- You can participate as an individual or with a team, but only one account should register to the campaign for a team. The benefits and prizes will be only given to one account for a team and cannot be seperated.
- If you do not know what to do next, please follow the step-by-step guide.
Task and Topics
Your website must be inspired and paralleled with one of the given themes. You must choose only one theme to build your website and enhance it to produce an established solution. The content of your website will have no impact on the results, hence, participants should not worry about the content relevancy. As long the content and information are related to the themes given, all participants are welcome to show their talent. Below are the following themes:
What is Malaysia to You
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Malaysia means a country that has so much to offer and so much more to grow. Calling all Malaysians to create a website that could promote overall Malaysia’s culture. Topics could be:
● Malaysians fashion sense
● Places to visit in Malaysia
● Malaysian food cultures
● Colourful Races
Spread Positivity
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We believe a lot of people are struggling with their mental health, financial situation and loss of jobs during this COVID-19 pandemic. We would like to urge the Malaysians to spread positivity among each other as extra support. Topics could be:
● Motivational quotes, heartwarming pictures
● Personal experience
● Confession page
● Resume Portfolio
● Online portfolio (recruiting)
Sustainable Development Goals
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SDG is a Global Goals were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. Hence, participants are advised to spread awareness by using their creativity to introduce to the business world about the importance of SDG through this theme. Topics could be :
● Participants can choose any from the 17 goals
Environmental Social Governance ESG
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ESG criteria are a set of standards for a company's operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Based on the 3 main factor which is Environmental Social and Governance, participants are advised to create a website that helps/guide Investors to decide whether to invest in a company. Topics could be :
● What ESG and why is it important?
● How it works?
● What is the Pros and Cons?
● Why is better than the traditional metrics?
Judging Criteria
All the projects submitted to the campaign will be reviewed by Alibaba Cloud team and Unlock Design team together with the criteria below.
Content
Relevancy of the given themes
Accuracy of content
Correct spelling and grammar
Good use of content chunking
Aesthetics
Visual appeal and style
Consistent look and feel
Readability
Minimalist design
Designs
Effective navigation and working links
Effective use of multimedia content
Browser compatibility
Usability & Accessibility
Progressive exposition of levels of details
Navigation feedback mechanism
Effective user guidance
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Learning Resources
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Build Your First Personal Website On Alibaba Cloud Using ECS
In this short video, we introduced how to quickly deploy a personal website with Alibaba Cloud ECS and Marketplace service.
Using ECS to Construct a Dynamic Website
Want to learn how to construct a dynamic website that can actively update its content? In this Clouder lesson, you will learn how to build a WordPress website on Alibaba Cloud.
Operate and Manage Object Storage on the Cloud
This course explains the basic concepts of OSS, and includes demos such as bucket management, object storage operations, image processing, website hosting and monitoring and introduces the OSS related security features.
Using OSS to Publish a Static Website
Learn how to publish a static website using Alibaba Cloud services and complete the ICP process.
Relational Database Service Technical Operations
Through this course, you will not only learn about Alibaba Cloud RDS design architect and applicable scenarios, but also by watching product console demos, you will be familiar with RDS major functions and operation details.
MySQL Database Concepts and Operations
After learning this MySQL series courses, the trainees will master the MySQL relevant basic concept, deployment procedure, HA solution, commonly used backup and recovery method and daily inspection skills.
Migrate Your Application to Alibaba Cloud
This course is designed to help traditional IT companies who want to move their business to the cloud and have a comprehensive understanding of Alibaba Cloud's recommendations and available tools for the migration of the application environment.
Migration of Cloud Database to Alibaba Cloud
By learning this course, you can get a comprehensive understanding of what cross-platform database migration is, the DTS, and the scenarios for migrating cloud databases from third-party cloud platforms to Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for RDS.
E-Commerce Website Migration Best Practices
Using a combination of Linux command line tools and Alibaba Cloud's database migration service, DTS, we show you how you can take a simple example site (built with WordPress) and fully migrate it to Alibaba Cloud.
Demo for Deploying Web Service on ECS
This is a step by step operations demonstration on how to quickly deploy web service using ECS
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service – Live Demo
This live-demo webinar will give an overview about the concepts and puts a special emphasis on features that differentiate this offering from competitive offerings of other cloud providers.
