A HackingContest is a way to get geeks to be daring and creative. The goal is to design a cool new app in a short amount of time. The entries must usually be judged by a panel of respected judges. Prizes are a good incentive for participation.
Organizer
ShimonRura, Voo2do and Renesys
Rules
These are proposed rules and will be subject to change.
- You build a software application. It can be a web app, game, a plugin for an existing system, a clone of something else, something totally different, whatever. It just has to be cool.
- Contest runs at BarCamp between 5pm on Saturday and 12:30 in the afternoon on Sunday.
- All software must be written at BarCamp. You can use open-source code, but you can't just show up and put finishing touches on a half-complete app; that's cheating.
- Teams must be between 1 and 5 people.
- Each team must register at the beginning of the contest and submit milestones according to the contest schedule, TBD.
- All entries remain the property of their respective teams.
- Points will be awarded by judges at the conclusion of the contest, and leading teams will win prizes.
Prizes
An anonymous donor has generously offered a prize pot of $500. Additional prizes may become available; please see BostonBarCampSponsors to make an offer.
Schedule
This schedule is tentative.
Sat 5pm - team registration; contest begins
Sat 8pm - first mockups/prototype due
Sun 10am - mostly-complete demo due
Sun 12:30pm - final submissions and scoring
Sun 2:00pm - awards ceremony
Entry Ideas
- Can we ask for projects and offer bounties? For example, my company would love to have something like a really interactive Flash program that could do some complex computations based on a spec, look nice, and be really fast to load - and we'd be more than willing to offer a "bounty" - we have a few promotional items like an Averatec 6100 laptop (MSRP $1100) that we'd be happy to give away...
