This repo contains all the information needed for both in-person and remote participation in the event.
First, let us take a moment to say thank you! You are awesome and we really appreciate the time and effort you are putting into this.
The ultimate goal of this Hackathon is to bootstrap a network of people that would like to help with the current Venezuelan situation — making sure that we use our skills and energies towards initiatives that have a direct impact in the country.
Here are a few things that we want you to have in mind:
- We don't expect to have fully fleshed out solutions to the challenges proposed for this Hackathon. We want you to have fun while working on projects that have the potential to make a difference in Venezuela.
- This community is real! We are very excited to see people from so many parts of the world getting together for this event, let's embrace our community and nurture it.
- If you like one of the challenges and would like to continue working on it after the Hackathon, please reach out! We want to form brigades that continue to work on these problems beyond the scope of this weekend.
- Teams:
- Make sure to have a team.
- We want to bring together: developers, PMs, Data scientists, designers etc.
- A team could be made up of engineers only or a mix of cross-discipline teammates.
- We encourage freedom to innovate and be creative.
- Recommended team size: 3 to 5 people. Ideally in the same location you are participating from. This will make it easier to collaborate!
- Logistics:
- Slack will be the main communication channel for the event. Please use #hackathon-ga to post questions and requests.
- Streaming: When there are talks or workshops, we will make sure we have a video stream available for remote participants. We will post the links in #hackathon-ga.
- In the
challengesfolder you will find a list of challenges proposed by our partner organizations. Please take time to review them before the event. The more prepared, the more chances your team will have of making good progress during the weekend! - Each challenge will have a dedicated Slack channel where you could ask questions and get clarifications. The slack channel for a channel follows the following convention: chal-challenge_code. (e.g #chal-mpv-inf, #chal-mit-rea)
If you want to work on a challenge that is not by our partner organizations, you are welcome to do so! Share you challenge in #hackathon-ga.
It is highly likely that there will be more teams than challenges, but fear not! Nothing like tackling problems from different angles to find creative and interesting solutions.
Neither Code for Venezuela nor our partner organization will retain ownership of your code. Finished work should be licensed under either Apache or MIT open source licenses so that it can continue to benefit the non-profits
| Challenge Code | Description | Slack Channel |
|---|---|---|
| ALU-LEA | Design and create an HTML donor leaderboards to recognize and encourage contributions to AlumnUSB. | #chal-alu-lea |
| ALU-PAY | Automate scholarship payments for AlumnUSB. | #chal-alu-pay |
| CEP-VEW | Analyze the CEPAZ survey data on women migrants and visualize some of the most significant findings. | #chal-cep-vew |
| COD-BLA | Document the impact of the lack of electricity in Venezuela. | #chal-cod-bla |
| COD-HEA | Create an attractive website for the Hearts on Venezuela campaign. | #chal-cod-hea |
| HRW-VIZ | Build a machine-friendly Venezuelan health dataset out of semi-structured PDF data and visualize it. | #chal-hrw-viz |
| IMU-GIS | Build a publicly accessible platform to upload and visualized GIS data (Geographic Information System). | #chal-imu-gis |
| MIT-REA | Create a comprehensive census of Venezuelans that could benefit from MIT ReACT program. | #chal-mit-rea |
| MPV-INF | Foundational work to use Twitter data to detect epidemic outbreaks and identify where particular medicines are needed in Venezuela. | #chal-mpv-inf |
| NXT-DIA | Create a dataset on where Venezuelans have migrated, and build services on top of it. | #chal-nxt-dia |
| USB-DIG | Build a system to manage electronic signatures for official documentation issued by Universidad Simón Bolívar. | #chal-usb-dig |
| VED-DEF | Visualize the data from the office of the Public Defender in Venezuela. | #chal-ved-def |
Deadline for project submission: Sunday 14, 4:30pm Pacific Time.
- This deadline applies globally, so mind the timezones and plan your work and submission accordingly.
- If your location, in addition to the global evaluations, offers any kind of prizes locally, you'll have to submit your solutions according to the local schedule to be eligible for that. Reach out to your local organizers for details!
Each team will present a 3 minute demo on their work. Remote teams can record a video and we will present it on site as a part of the final presentations.
Submission process: We will use Devpost to manage the submission process, the reviewing panel will only review projects that are uploaded there.
- Go to the main project site and start your submission by clicking the Get Started button.
- We recommend using Loom to record the video of the demo: https://www.useloom.com
- Post your video in the submission and feel free to post to Slack as well.
All participants are invited to watch the feedback from our panelists. This will happen at 4:30PM PST, Sunday 14th and will be live streamed. If you can't join live, we will let you know via Slack on Monday 04/15 any feedback from our panelists.
If your project has scope that goes beyond the weekend of the Hackathon, let us know if you would like to keep contributing.
- We recommend you use Trello or Asana to organize your day.
- We suggest participants choose just one challenge to focus on and focus on completing a significant portion of it.
- Ask questions using the designated Slack channel for your challenge.
- Keep an eye out for our Webex and Zoom links that we will use to live-stream the event for participants.
- Repote participants: We will send you virtual food (🍌 🍉 🍇 🍓) but you will need something real. Make sure to have enough arepas or pizza! And have enough water too ☺
Join our event remotely! Do you have a team? A location? Let's do this!
We will set up a Slack channel to allow remote folks to participate in this event. If your location has a webcam we can discuss using Zoom to live-stream the event.
The following cities are hosting remote locations for the Hackathon. Please check out their RSVP website and make sure you respond if you want to attend to the event there:
- Santiago de Chile (RSVP):
- São Leopoldo:
- POC: Vanessa Martinez
- Slack Channel: #c4v-sjiy
- Barcelona (RSVP):
- POC: Luis Castro
- Slack Channel: #c4v-bcn
- Location: Barcelona, Plaza de Cataluña, 1, mytaxi Barcelona, Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona, España
- Bogota:
- POC: Anibal Rojas
- Slack Channel: #c4v-bog
- Buenos Aires:
- POC: José Zambrano
- Slack Channel: #c4v-eze
There will be team members monitoring all the Slack channels for the remote locations. They will be answering questions and making sure your requests are funneled back to the team in SF.
Mentors will publish their schedule on Slack and let you know when they are available in channel.
If you have any questions email us at contact at codeforvenezuela.org
All participants must adhere to the following Code of Conduct.