12 Days of FME Community Contest

The 12 Days of FME Contest is live! Register here and launch your virtual balloon. Then, share your team name on the Question of the Week.

About the Contest

From December 3 to December 17, 2024, the FME Community is hosting our annual winter contest: a balloon race powered by FME Flow. Launch your virtual balloon and steer it around the world, scoring points for different activities.

FME is used to manage the contest - from simulating the balloon travel (using an API called Tawhiri) to providing reports to contestants during the game.

How to Take Part

You can do as little as register a balloon and watch it float off into the distance. But, if you want to be a little more active, you can check out weather forecasts and predictions and change the altitude of your balloon to give you the best speed and direction. 

Can you use FME in the contest? 

Of course! You can use FME to:

• Analyze weather data and forecasts
• Generate reports that the game doesn’t have (the data download page gives you access to all contest data)
• Set up alerts for your balloon (a handy webhook is provided for live position data)

What You Can Win

We have some incredible prizes up for grabs! 

• A Mova globe ($220 USD value) will be awarded to two grand prize winners with the highest and second highest number of total point at the end of the contest
• $100 Amazon gift card awarded to the user with the best visualization using FME
• $50 Amazon gift cards awarded to the fastest balloon, furthest distance traveled, and most countries flown over
• $50 value FME swag prize pack awarded to the balloon that flies closest to the Safe Software office in Surrey, British Columbia 
• $50 value surprise consolation prize ‘awarded’ to the balloon that lost the most points by flying over airports

Have questions or comments? Share them on this post. Hope you’ll join in on the fun!