{"id":45456,"date":"2020-12-02T18:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/us\/en\/blog\/?p=45456"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:40:08","slug":"virtual-event-very-real-innovation-ringcentral-xiamens-latest-hackathon-was-virtual-the-ideas-were-definitely-actual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/virtual-event-very-real-innovation-ringcentral-xiamens-latest-hackathon-was-virtual-the-ideas-were-definitely-actual\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual event. Very real innovation. RingCentral Xiamen\u2019s latest hackathon was virtual. The ideas were definitely actual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you\u2019re a\u00a0coding newbie\u00a0hoping to pick up some knowledge, or a seasoned professional looking to show off your skills, there\u2019s no better place than a hackathon to unite over a shared love of what\u2019s hot now in tech. In case you didn\u2019t know, a \u201chackathon\u201d is an\u00a0event\u00a0where\u00a0participants of varying skill levels and tech specialties gather to generate ideas and create a viable product. Typically, hackathon participants work in close contact, often camping together at their desks until the project is finished. That simply isn\u2019t possible in a global pandemic, but it didn\u2019t stop RingCentral Xiamen from hosting the most well-attended in central China, with 50 teams participating virtually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s competition focused on four key areas: Drive Efficiency, Better Collaboration, Improve User Experience and a Challenger\u2019s League for participants from non-technical departments. The talent and innovation on display was so far off the charts, there were actually two winners in the Improve User Experience category \u2014the judges simply couldn\u2019t choose a favorite.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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And the winners are\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Drive Efficiency:<\/b> Wayne Zhou & Thomas Yang – <\/span>\u201cMeeting Shuriken\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Shows the status of attendees before they join a meeting and reminds invitees who haven\u2019t joined in one step. Allows quick replies for upcoming meetings. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Better Collaboration: <\/b>Troy Huang & Jayson Zhang – <\/span>\u201cScreen Sharing Like A Thunderbolt\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Introduces the “Drag & Share” pattern in Video and Phone features, making screen sharing in a RingCentral Video meeting extremely fast and easy. Brings media streaming features into RingCentral Video and delivers much higher video and audio file sharing quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Improve User Experience (1): <\/b>Ping Wei & Mario Lin –<\/span> \u201cPost-It\u2019s\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Adds a tag and saves current relative position by long-tapping the scroll bar on conversation screens, so users can easily navigate back to the saved position by tapping the tag. Allows users to add up to 3 tags for a conversation, locally stored.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Improve User Experience (2): <\/b>Paul Lai & Zoey Weng – <\/span>\u201cReminder\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Provides users a way to quickly add reminders, anytime and anywhere. Users can also use Reminder to manage their to-do lists.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Challenger\u2019s League: <\/b>Sven Liu & Sam Patterson –<\/span> \u201cSingle-Step Attendance\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Helps hosts add participants to meetings effortlessly. Hosts can quickly see invitees who have not yet joined, and then take action that will help absent invitee(s) join incoming video calls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The winning projects were all demonstrated for US executives on November 11. They are currently being spec\u2019d with Product Marketing and teams are gathering to plan for their future release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prizes for top three finishers included:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n